Le média de toutes les solidarités Farming the Woods | Temperate Forest Farming & Permaculture Strategies Open Source Ecology Interactive Learning Resources for young people Creative Kids Awards Show us your Creative & Artistic Talent! What is this? In 2014, we are launching our maiden Creative Competition, The Creative Kids Awards, which will see children and young people all over the world compete for a top prize that will be set by your favorite online learning portal, eSchoolToday.com In these competitions, children will have the opportunity to explore their artistic talents in relation to knowledge acquired in various topics of interest from our learning resources. Who can take part? All young people between the ages of 5 and 18 years from all parts of the world. How much will this cost? This competition is absolutely FREE to enter. What is the benefit of taking part in this competition? It is simply fun! What format will the artworks take? Poster and artworks can either be digital or hand created. How many can one person enter? Each person will have only one attempt, but can enter in all the categories that will be set. How do we determine who wins? Thank you.
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics Marsh Professor Lecture: Amy Dickman, Warriors, Witchcraft & Women: Carnivore Ecology and Conservation in Tanzania’s Ruaha Landscape Wednesday, April 16 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building UVM is hosting Amy Dickman, Kaplan Senior Research Fellow in Felid Conservation at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. She will give a free, public lecture on “Warriors, Witchcraft & Women: Carnivore Ecology and Conservation in Tanzania’s Ruaha Landscape,” Wednesday, April 16 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building. Dickman, a UVM James Marsh Professor-at-Large, has more than 15 years experience working on large carnivores in Africa, specializing in big cats and human-carnivore conflict mitigation. Dickman and her Tanzanian team are researching the ecology of these vital populations and working to reduce the pressing threat of human-carnivore conflict in this critical area. A reception will immediately follow the lecture in Waterman Manor. Information: (802) 656-3186.
Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food the world-wide guide to dumpster diving : freegan.info David Graeber on MAUSS Have you noticed how there aren't any new French intellectuals any more? There was a veritable flood in the late '70s and early '80s: Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Lyotard, de Certeau ... but there has been almost no one since. Trendy academics and intellectual hipsters have been forced to endlessly recycle theories now 20 or 30 years old, or turn to countries like Italy or even Slovenia for dazzling meta-theory. There are a lot of reasons for this. Of course this in itself is hardly going to faze the sort of Americans who read Deleuze and Guattari. As a result, some of the most interesting scholars in France today you never hear about at all. A word of background. By all accounts, though, Mauss was never taken completely seriously in his role of heir apparent; a man of extraordinary erudition (he knew at least a dozen languages, including Sanskrit, Maori and classical Arabic), he still, somehow, lacked the gravity expected of a grand professeur.
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