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When culture and the environment interact - "This one's going to Prescott, Ariz.," Ms. Atencio said, nodding toward one bird tightly parceled in plastic. "That one's going to Pendleton, Ore." Despite appearances, this was not some surreptitious animal-smuggling ring. It was a typical Wednesday at the National Eagle Repository, the only place where American Indians can legally obtain bald and golden eagles from the federal government for traditional ceremonies.

Thought I would post this piece a friend of mine wrote a few days ago. It's about the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline and its impact on Native American and First Nation people. This piece gives a great historical and cultural context for the controversy surrounding the installation of the pipeline. Olivya Caballero is an enrolled member of Northern Arapaho Tribe and also identifies as Sicangu Lakota. She just finished her first year at Columbia University.

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Simply amazing - this gives me an idea for a future project...

Growers here on the Baja Peninsula, the epicenter of Mexico's thriving new organic export sector, describe their toil amid the cactuses as "planting the beach." Del Cabo Cooperative, a supplier here for Trader Joe's and Fairway, is sending more than seven and a half tons of tomatoes and basil every day to the United States by truck and plane to sate the American demand for organic produce year-round.

Fishermen are expecting decent prices, but there also will be "dire economic consequences'' with so little shrimp to go around, said Maggie Raymond, executive director of Associated Fisheries of Maine. "I predict it'll be a miracle if they get through the end of January,'' Raymond said.

The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises off the coast of Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening.This page tells of how we can each help in the campaign to raise awareness and stop the slaughter.

"No Human Being Is Illegal," read the T-shirt worn by the rapper Residente, leading the Puerto Rican group Calle 13, as he started the band's concert at Celebrate Brooklyn! on Friday night. Calle 13, which swept the Latin Grammy Awards in 2011, revved up an exultant global party.

So you've been thinking that people in the good ol' U.S. of A. aren't as happy as they could be. The 2013 World Happiness Report to the United Nations confirms it. The U.S. came in 17th among 156 nations surveyed. In the top 10 are much of Europe plus Canada and Australia.

This article takes a look at the gun control in the U.S. in comparison of the gun control in six other major countries. It is quite clear that the U.S. has the weakest of gun control laws, resulting in a ridiculously high number of mass shootings and crimes.

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