Advanced publicity for The World is Round: A Year of Living Off the Land and Off the Grid, by M. Chowdhury The heroic and humorous account of one Bengali family’s year long attempt to go without the fruits of the world economy. After stumbling across a LiveEarth brochure at a local recycled-goods pile, the Chowdhury family decide to take a principled stand against the worst excesses of global capitalism – environmental degradation, human rights abuses, unfair trade practices – and devote one year to simplifying their lives and lessening their contribution to these problems. Gone are the basic necessities –…
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By Wyatt Galusky
Wyatt Galusky lives and works in central New York, where he teaches at a small ag and tech college and likes to write about food, particularly before it becomes so.
LEICESTER SCHOOL OF DESIGN CONSIDERS NAME CHANGE
Executive Board of the Leicester School of Design – – – Minutes of the Special Board Meeting to consider name change (16 September 2007) (Executive Conference Room, Spiro Agnew Memorial Library) – – – Members Present: Leopold Judd (chair), Juleph Altinson, Phillard Arbruster, C. Tony Catalonotonino, Judith Clemence, Alin Forebright (emeritus – non-voting), John Jones Johnson, Lester Wempnicke, Horace Zeel Absent: Ford Numble, Zevon Nguyen (student member – non-voting) Proceedings: Meeting called to order by Chair Judd, at 11:07 am. Last month’s meeting minutes approved, with amendments. Judith Clemence motions to table all other pending business, and to cede the…