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He Uses Art to Make State Parks in California More Accessible for All

By Sam Laird — 2021

Joe Colmenares and many others, Bayview-Hunters Point is not simply a representation of urban blight. It’s a living, breathing community where people live and work, love and lose, join together and get by. That’s where the 252-acre oasis of Candlestick Point State Recreation Area comes in—and more specifically, where Colmenares’ mural of willets has a role to play in this overlooked corner of a mural-loving city.

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Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.

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Celebrating Food Economies

The Slow Food movement organised a magical gathering of food communities—Terra Madre—which took place in Turin, Italy

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How Wealth Creates Poverty

This equating of money with wealth and wealth with wellbeing is misplaced on multiple counts. Money does not reflect nature’s wealth or people’s wealth, and it definitely fails to measure the wellbeing of society.

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Monsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of Gmos in India

India is steeped in a synthesized controversy created by Monsanto on the first GMO crop supposedly approved for commercialization.

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Forests and Freedom

Forests were central to Tagore’s works, just as they have been for India’s creative expression through centuries, writes Vandana Shiva.

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A New Pact with the Planet

In the wake of the Paris summit, Vandana Shiva suggests a manifesto for sustainability.

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