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Activism, Culture, Movies, Spirituality, Travel
Grandmothers Will Share Their Wisdom About Sustainability
The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a group of women who represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for Mother Earth, is featured in a documentary called "For the Next 7 ...
Activism, Culture, Politics
Reflections on Tunisia
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I personally was thinking that Mr. Bouazizi should receive the Nobel Peace Prize (he will not though - the Nobel Prize committee cannot award prizes posthumously). His ...
Activism, Travel, Travel Journal
2011 – Exciting Times for the Blue Mountain Project
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I just spent a delightful two weeks in Hagley Gap working with Zadie, our new Program Manager, and ...
Activism, Travel
Welcome Zadie, Blue Mountain Project’s New Program Manager
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I am pleased to announce that The Blue Mountain Project 's long search for a new Program Manager is over. Zadie Neufville will join the Blue Mountain Project in ...
Activism, Destinations, Travel
Wisconsin Snow In Contrast to the Jamaica Sun
My area of the world, Wisconsin, received seven inches of snow the weekend of November 13-14. We went from an Indian summer with temperatures in the 60s to the low 30s overnight Friday. As ...
Activism, Travel
Hagley Gap and the Floods
Jamaica was hit by an enormous amount of rain last week - 12 inches of rain in 36 hours, according to Gwion, our Water Ambassador, in the rain gauge at the Ambassador house.
Everyone is ...
Activism, Culture, Travel
The Value of Host Families in the Gap
Woke up this morning to the peaceful sounds of life in Hagley Gap, Jamaica: Children running around playing with odds and ends; Women making their way to the river for water, passing gossip along ...