Many years ago I did a stint for Food not Bombs in San Francisco, while there I met a student activist from the Free Burma group. She was a cool gal. We were riding the bus back from taking the food...
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The owner of this small internet cafe/ tour office/ traditional documentary making/ computer and english school for kids is working hard to promote traditional Burmese culture to the wider world.Earlier this year...
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A Thomas J. Watson fellow, Adam Forbes takes us around the world as he studys seed saving and the loss of genetic diversity. First stop was India, where he worked with several groups including Navdanya. I have pulled a few excerpts out of his 3 page summary but...
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The fuel of the future, according to both Henry Ford and Charles F. Kettering, was ethyl alcohol made from farm products and cellulosic materials. Ford, of course, is well known as an automotive inventor; Kettering was the head of research at...
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Abstract The fuel of the future, according to both Henry Ford and Charles F. Kettering, was ethyl alcohol made from farm products and cellulosic materials. Ford, of course, is well known as an automotive inventor; Kettering was the...
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Anyone who has been to Burma (Myanmar) over the last 15 years or so and visited the mystical Inle Lake situated on the high plateau of the Shan State would have stopped in at the most famous backpacker cafe in...
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