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In the Spring Issue and online here:
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N.Rockies Bioneers Beaming – A hub for natural innovation and inspiration
WARNING: Attending a Bioneers conference may cause an uncontrollable desire to seek innovative and practical solutions to restore the earth and its people.
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Celebrating Our Muslim Neighbors by Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage
At Moscow's Farmers Market on September 29, the Latah Human Rights Task Force will sponsor "Building Bridges with Our Muslim Neighbors." There will be Islamic designs and regional maps for kids to color, a slide show on Morocco, a video on Muslim Spain, and music. There will also be a poster board of seven distinguished Muslims of the Palouse. The column speaks to some of these topics.
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unfiltered commentary
Bill Richardson Should Offer More than His Resume
Democratic Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson has a long-list of accomplishments and is possibly the most qualified nominee of the entire field of candidates-- in both parties. He remains the only Democratic contender with executive experience. However, his resume to this point has not translated to an overriding support in the polls. Why? Well…there are a number of reasons for that-- John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. Sure, he’s got an impressive resume. But outside of his credentials, voters what to know what he stands for? What is his vision for this country?
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wildfire
Statewide FireSafe Organization Becomes Reality
After several years of planning and coordination, efforts to establish a statewide FireSafe organization in Montana became a reality on May 18 during a signing ceremony at Carroll College in Helena. FireSafe Montana will offer a very important service for the citizens of Montana – statewide coordination of efforts supporting FireSafe programs and firewise activities.
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Eloise Cobell - The Face of Courage
Eloise Cobell spoke in UM’s Ethics at Noon series on Wednesday, giving a succinct accounting of what she’s been through in the last decade or so. Having taken on the U.S. bureaucracy, including the Departments of Interior, Treasury and Justice, in an attempt to right more than 100 years of wrongs in accounting on Indian lands, she is a figure larger than life for me. So when I heard she was going to be on campus, I scurried over to Turner Hall. I wanted to see what that kind of courage looked like.
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Stumbling the Walk
Take This Bracket And Shove It
Tomdispatch Jock Culture Correspondent (and former New York Times, CBS and NBC sports journalist) Robert Lipsyte says:
"This is the mud season of the sports calendar. While we await blessed baseball and its promise of renewal, here comes the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Division I Basketball Championship -- the Big Dance for sportswriters, the Bracket Racket for gamblers, a frat-rat party, a racist entertainment, and a subversion of higher education, perhaps democracy as well."
It all boils down to this weekend, and I really couldn't care less.
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Unfiltered Guest Column
Are Cows Really the Villains?
Peter Holter, COO of Holistic Management International, discusses the recent UN report, "Livestock's Long Shadow," which suggests that the world’s cattle herds actually emit more carbon and dioxide and greenhouse gases than cars do.
The recent UN report, “Livestock’s Long Shadow,”, suggested that the world’s cattle herds actually emit more carbon and dioxide and greenhouse gases than cars do.
The issue is not really the cows, but how they have been managed in an industrialized food chain.
As best we can tell, the UN study is primarily based on animals that have been raised in an industrialized manner, confined to pens and barns where they are fed a steady slaughterhouse/feedlot diet of synthetic minerals, grains, fodder, and antibiotics. These would make anyone belch and produce unpleasant gas!
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