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Battling poverty requires deep solutions that go beyond just trade.

Walter Carol of La Riojana Wines in Argentina on the benefits of Fairtrade that go beyond price and premium. Read the full story here. (via fairtrademarkus)

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson

Happy birthday to “the mother of the age of ecology,” Rachel Carson! 

Rachel Carson believed we are all responsible for caring for our natural world, and her dedication to environmental preservation has inspired generations of men and women. We can all do our part to carry on Carson’s legacy and become better stewards of our blue planet, whether it’s through removing marine debris or reducing our carbon footprints. Here, a member of the NOAA Marine Debris Program team helps disentangle a Laysan albatross chick in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. 

(Photo: Ryan Tabata/NOAA)

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

Anonymous (via bottlesintheice)

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If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Vincent van Gogh (via pagewoman)

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It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.

Thomas Merton (via landscape-photo-graphy)

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CBS reportedly passed on Nancy Drew because it was “too female”

So much for a modern, non-white take on Nancy Drew. The update was set to star Iranian-Spanish actress Sarah Shahi, but CBS passed because, despite testing well, it "skewed too female.” The network was deciding between Drew and Doubt — and went with the latter, which at least gives this a silver lining. 

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turns out you’re wrong, sherlock holmes. i don’t do any kind of farming or professionally take care of dogs or anything you said. i threw on all this shit to see which and how many wild assumptions you’d make about me from one random glance, like an asshole. and you did. you made so many assumptions about my life just by taking one look, you asshole. here’s an assumption for you: sherlock holmes is a huge jackass

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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.