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Puya berteroana or Turquoise Puya is a terrestrial Bromeliad from the mountains of Chile.  It forms a rosette of silvery-green leaves about 3-4 feet tall and wide.  Over the years, it forms a large colony of pups. The leaves are spiny, but the flower stalks themselves are soft, and the blossoms are silky-smooth.  Birds like to sit on the outward-pointing tips and drink the nectar out of the blooms.

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Seed: Do you think that in the future all economics will necessarily be ecological economics?

Herman Daly: That’s what I expect. I mean, we’re faced with two impossibilities. On the one hand, it’s politically impossible to stop growth. On the other hand, it’s biophysically impossible to continue it ad infinitum. So, which impossibility is fundamentally impossible? Well, you know, I’ll take my chances with trying to change the politically impossible, because I don’t think I can change the biophysically impossible.

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Gotta be great!

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Beksinski

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Some 130 million Americans, for example, now participate in the ownership of co-op businesses and credit unions. More than 13 million Americans have become worker-owners of more than 11,000 employee-owned companies, six million more than belong to private-sector unions.

Gar Alperovitz in the New York Times, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and a founder of the Democracy Collaborative, is the author of “America Beyond Capitalism.” (via fuckyeahcollectivescooperatives)

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They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.

Mexican Proverb (via peonyandbee)

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“The woods gal, that’s what they called me.” Emma Dupree, 1898-1996. Photos by Mary Anne McDonald.

Emma Dupree was a respected herbal healer in Pitt County, North Carolina: “From the time she could walk, Emma felt drawn to the land. She would roam the woods, plucking, sniffing, tasting weeds. She grew up that way, collecting the leaves, stems, roots, and bark of sweet gum, white mint, mullein, sassafras in her coattail or a tin bucket. She’d tote them back to the farm, rinse them in well water and tie them in bunches to dry. In the backyard, she’d raise a fire under a kettle and boil her herbs to a bubbly froth, then pour it up in brown-necked stone jugs: a white-mint potion for poor circulation; catnip tea for babies with colic; tansy tea - hot or cold - for low blood sugar; mullein tea for a stomach ache …” — Paige Williams

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My partner Chris and Lan (@dinhteresting) served up sweet potato and taro fries as the first course at their nourishing and fascinating workshop tonight at the @freelibrary: “Connected by an Ocean: Linkages Between Africa and Asia in Food and Culture”. #afroasian_connection #diaspora #sweetpotato #ipomoeabatatas #taro #Colocasiaesculenta #tarofries #sweetpotatofries

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M.I.A’s choice to borrow imagery from disparate groups and turn it into iconography isn’t appropriative; it’s the natural instinct of a diasporic identity. South Asians are already forced to invest in the panethnic “other” constructed by the West; we keep getting beat up for looking like Arabs slash Muslims slash terrorists. Called all three, M.I.A subverts the conflation to her advantage. Welcome to Worldtown. Choruses of children evoking a crowded slum, humid jungles where Sri Lankan women bathe and wash their clothes, old Bimmers drifting in a Moroccan desert, the mutiple limbs of a Hindu goddess stretching behind her, the austerity of areas long occupied by military, a digital print burqa. By lifting imagery associated with the global south and restyling it with an unapologetically gaudy insistence on its “otherness,” M.I.A empowers both herself and brown kids worldwide who had previously only been the subjects of Otherization, not the agents. Her reappropriation of the exotic kitsch brands subaltern struggle with dance-pop cool, while triumphantly avoiding privileging white consumption.

Ayesha Siddiqi, “The Pop Diaspora of M.I.A”

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/mia-matangi-ayesha-a-siddiqi

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Really excited to be doing seed trials of this fascinating herb this month!

#antistress #tea with added bonus, #ginger!!!! #superherbtea #republicoftea #jiaogulan #immortality #superherb #herb #herbaltea

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Excerpt // Next time the big mother fuckin sad comes calling, don’t pick up the phone // Adam Gnade