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...blog, Whole Foods' Mackey has used a radius of 200 miles to mean local. Measuring from my home, that includes not only much of New York State, New Jersey and Connecticut but also parts of seven other Northeastern states. Such a large food shed produces a great variety of fruits and vegetables, and Whole Foods has said it wants to increase its percentage of local produce. (Of the roughly $1 billion in produce the company sold last year, 16.4% came from local sources, up from 14.9% in 2005.) Last year Mackey announced a $10 million loan program for local farmers...
...Ibera wetlands region is a vast labyrinth of marshes, lakes and floating islands totaling nearly two million acres in northeastern Argentina. And so American businessman Douglas Tompkins started buying it up in 1999; he owns 442,000 acres of it so far. Together, directly or through foundations they control, Tompkins and his wife have acquired properties encompassing Pacific coastal fjords, Patagonian virgin forest and tropical wetlands, a total area of some 3,437 square miles (2.1 million acres) in both Argentina and neighboring Chile. That is the approximate area of Cyprus. He is not trying to create his own country...
...just the clothes that are socially conscious. Its line of Inara spa products is produced by women's cooperatives in the remote state of Maranhăo in northeastern Brazil, and its amethyst-and-garnet geometric drop earrings are made at a Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions?turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus...
...team suffered a 87-77 setback to crosstown rival Northeastern to fall to 1-10 on the season. Two months later, thanks to nine straight wins in Ivy League play, the Crimson is one victory away from a definite berth in the NCAA Tournament...
...said Hurt. “Beyond Beats and Rhymes” features interviews with hip-hop celebrities, aspiring rappers, record executives, and academics. In the film, Hurt questions them about what he saw as the troubling issues with “commercial rap.” A former Northeastern University football quarterback and self-described “hip-hop head,” Hurt said his work as a sexual violence prevention educator drew his attention to the violence and sexism in an art form he loves. The film screening elicited strong reactions from last night?...