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The Story of Refined White Rice by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh — YES! Magazine
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The Story of Refined White Rice. How a once nutritious grain was transformed into something unhealthy to eat. Photo by the International Rice Research Institute. Posted Mar 28, 2011. In an increasingly vulnerable world, we're searching for rooted communities and what we can learn from them. Read more at our blog, Finding Rootedness. The time we spend with organic rice farmers in the Philippines. We focus on rice in this current entry (leaving corn and wheat to future travels). The story would stop there ...
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Film Offers Fresh Take on Racism in Obama’s America by Valerie Schloredt — YES! Magazine
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Film Offers Fresh Take on Racism in Obama’s America. Cracking the Codes features stories of racism’s continuing effects told by those who experience it daily, and includes a teaching guide for those who want to address racial issues within groups and projects. Posted Mar 07, 2013. Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. Produced and directed by Shakti Butler and distributed by World Trust Education Services, 75 minutes, 2012. So it’s an unexpected delight when the educational film,. An excelle...
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The Biking Wittwer Family by Sara Cross and Travis Wittwer — YES! Magazine
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The Biking Wittwer Family. Travis Wittwer is a teacher and stay-at-home dad in Portland, Ore. His cargo bike is his main mode of transportation. He bikes on all kinds of family errands, from dropping off children here and there, to getting groceries, or riding just for the fun of it. Photos by Sara Cross, saracrossphotography.com. Posted May 13, 2010. It is a school morning and Travis loads his three children into a cargo bike. Kael (10), Soren (7), Asa (5). Photo by Sara Cross, saracross.blogspot...
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Infographic: Your Stuff’s Not As Cheap As You Think It Is by Doug Pibel and Katrina Rabeler — YES! Magazine
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Infographic: Your Stuff’s Not As Cheap As You Think It Is. What do we really trade for all of the cheap stuff we buy? Posted Aug 01, 2013. Doug Pibel and Katrina Rabeler researched this article for The Human Cost of Stuff,. The Fall 2013 issue of YES! Magazine. Doug is managing editor of YES! And Katrina is an editorial intern. Annie Leonard: How to Be More than a Mindful Consumer. After Rana Plaza: Let's Bring Humanity Back Into Our Stuff. Adam Hochschild: We Can End Slavery Again. Get the best of YES!
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Even in a Drought, California Farms Have a Future—But They’ll Need Local Control to Succeed by Keith Harrington — YES! Magazine
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Even in a Drought, California Farms Have a Future But They’ll Need Local Control to Succeed. Some California farmers have discovered ways to farm that use very little water, yet thirstier methods still dominate. What gives? Illustration by Jennifer Luxton. Posted May 12, 2015. Last month, for the first time in history, California enacted mandatory limits on how much water its residents can use. And yet, as a recent op-ed in. The New York Times. The very dominance of California agriculture is an expressio...
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The Fight Against Fracking: New York Senate Passes Moratorium on Hydraulic Fracturing — YES! Magazine
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The Fight Against Fracking. How New Yorkers won a moratorium on a drilling practice that threatens their lives, homes, and water. Filmmaker Josh Fox watches a resident demonstrate the effects of hydrofracking chemicals on his water. Posted Aug 13, 2010. When politicians refer to natural gas as a "clean" alternative to oil and coal. They seldom mention a commonly used technique called horizontal hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Those repercussions have included fatalities from exploding wells...
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Neil Cresswell - Client List
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Neil Cresswell’s Client List. Sole responsibility for the design, and development of the magazine's new online store. Including graphic design, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript with jQuery, AJAX work, PHP and MySQL. A dot-com start-up, in a CTO type of role, project managing two offshore development teams, introducing versioning, QA, tracking and deployment processes, and providing architectural designs, and production systems support, as well as assisting with C# code and database work as needed. The world’s...
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School Behind Bars: How College Kids and Incarcerated Youth Benefit From Learning Together by Nur Lalji — YES! Magazine
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School Behind Bars: How College Kids and Incarcerated Youth Benefit From Learning Together. Graduates of an Inside-Out program in Oregon say that the experience transformed the way they see the prison system and themselves. The students from Deb Arthur’s Inside-Out class. Arthur is fifth from left. Photo by C.J. Drake. Posted Aug 12, 2015. On July 8, several young men from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility were tear-gassed by police. Most people have no conception of what prison is like. Arthur’s ...
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The Rad History Book Every Girl (and Boy) Should Have on Their Bookshelf by Lindsey Weedston — YES! Magazine
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The Rad History Book Every Girl (and Boy) Should Have on Their Bookshelf. A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world. Rad American Women A-Z. Posted Aug 11, 2015. Three Iron Man movies. Five Spider Man movies. Eight Batman movies. Nine Superman movies. Movies starring Daredevil, the Hulk, Ant-Man, Captain America, Thor, Green Lantern, and Ghost Rider. Meanwhile millions of girls are left to wonder if there will ever be a Black Widow movie. In 2014, only 12 percent. The b...