It’s Time to Start Asking Why We Operate The Way We Do by Joe Martino

Joe Martino | Collective Evolution

Let me tell you a story I was told by others about a woman, a roast and her grandmother.

A woman was teaching her daughter to make a roast one day when her daughter asked, “Mom why do you cut the ends off the roast?” The mother wasn’t quite sure how to respond but thought back to what her mother used to do which is where she learned in the first place. Not knowing the real reason why her mother would cut off the ends of the roast she decided to call her mother, which was the daughters grandma of course. “Hey mom, remember when you used to make the roasts when I was a kid and you always cut the ends off? Why did you cut the ends off?” The woman’s mother responded, “I’m not sure, that is just how my mother always used to do it.”  This is where the story turns a little bit magical because luckily the grandmother’s mother was still alive and she was able to call her to find out the question the 3 of them had wanted to get answered. When grandmas mother answered the phone grandma asked “mom why did you cut the ends off the roasts when you used to make it?” “Well because the ovens were smaller back then and so were the pans, if we didn’t cut them off, it wouldn’t fit.”

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Two Row Campaign @ Judson Memorial Church, NYC

Native Resistance Network

Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign at Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York, New York

Starting Sunday January 27th,11:00am, Judson will be hosting a series of Native American Testimonies on the last Sunday of every month, as part of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign.

A partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) is developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout the world. This statewide advocacy and educational campaign seeks to achieve justice by polishing the chain of friendship established in the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch immigrants. Environmental cleanup and preservation, and opposition to hydro-fracking are the core components of the campaign.

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When Trees Die, People Die

Lindsay Abrams | The Atlantic

The curious connection between an invasive beetle that has destroyed over 100 million trees, and subsequent heart disease and pneumonia in the human populations nearby

The blight was first detected in June 2002, when the trees in Canton, Michigan, got sick. The culprit, the emerald ash borer, had arrived from overseas, and it rapidly spread — a literal bug — across state and national lines to Ohio, Minnesota, Ontario. It popped up in more distant, seemingly random locations as infested trees were unwittingly shipped beyond the Midwest.

Within four years of first becoming infested, the ash trees die — over 100 million since the plague began. In some cases, their death has an immediate impact, as they fall on cars, houses, and people. In the long term, their disappearance means parks and neighborhoods, once tree-lined, are now bare.

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