Category Archives: environment

The Rural Assembly and the Rural Compact.

Today I came across an organization called The Rural Assembly and I am so excited about their work and I think you will be too. The Rural Assembly is a part of the Center for Rural Strategies, an amazing organization … Continue reading

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Always Becoming, podcasts at the National Museum of American Indian

I recently saw this exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in D.C. The artist, Nora Naranjo-Morse, who is a Santa Clara Pueblo, is the first Native American woman to make an outdoor sculpture in D.C. What amazed … Continue reading

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Native Seeds/S*E*A*R*C*H

Just the other day my friend Dr. Kristin Dowell, an anthropologist who works with Native American communities, suggested I look into a project called Native Seeds, a seed bank and cultural memory bank based in the southwest. It am so … Continue reading

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Northcentral Arkansas Heirloom Seed Shop and Foodbank.

(the links for the seed shop and the foodbank’s blog can be found at the bottom of this post). I am learning more everyday about the importance of eating locally grown food, especially food grown from heirloom seeds (a catchall … Continue reading

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Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook

Rethinking Globalization:Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook I just read about this textbook from Rethinking Schools. It was published in 2002. This resource textbook teaches students 4th-12th grades social justice issues as an interconnected web. As the authors … Continue reading

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The oral history and folklore of Climate Change and an extension of what we mean by PLACE.

In working with a few different oral history programs, I have always been intrigued by how much information these interviews about rural life in North Carolina, Arkansas, or central Kentucky contain about climate change. When men and women in their … Continue reading

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