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Thought Factory

No Room With An Interview Any More

Yesterday, a master blaster -- a former editor of mine whom I respect unconditionally-- called up from the deepest shade of blue, to ask, “Can you interview Lata Mang...

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Sustainable Development

The Detrimental Dye In Your Denim Gets An Alternate Fix.

Denims have always had a bad reputation entailing them. They are responsible for environmental degradation and climate change. The reason why your beloved and seemingly inn...

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Sustainable Development

Our Jeans Are Ruining The Planet But This Company Wants To Fix That

Here’s how you make the indigo that gives most denim its signature blue: like many things in peak-oil America, you start by drilling down. Extract petroleum from the ...

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Hollywood

Jackson Browne Announces Benefit Concert To Support Veterans For Peace

Singer songwriter Jackson Browne announces a benefit concert on Sunday, August 13th at the Copernicus Center in Chicago, IL to support Veterans For Peace (VFP). Showtime is...

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Sustainable Development

In Kenya, Phones Replace Bank Tellers

Pauline Kimari is a pharmacist in Ndaragwa, Kenya, a small town several hours’ drive north of Nairobi. She moved there from rural Muranga, several hours away, to open...

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Alternative Entertainment

10 Story High Mural Of Muddy Waters Goes Up In Chicago

If you find yourself near State and Washington streets in Chicago, look up and you'll see a mural of bluesman Muddy Waters rising 10 stories high. It was painted, the Chica...

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Trending

Born A Cremator: An Indian Boys Fight For An Education

The night Yogi Choudhury's father died, the teenager was asleep in his boarding school. His older brother had travelled some three hours along a dirt track to find the scho...

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Sustainable Development

We Need More Truth In Our Talk About Sanitation

Sopan Joshi’s “Jal Thal Mal” is a book in Hindi about the invisible connections that sustain us in our life on the planet. It shows how sanitation is not ...

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Trending

The Legend Of Baba Ghor

Braving leopard warnings and bumpy rural roads, the writer visits a shrine from another continent and another time Ten kilometres out of Bharuch in southern Gujarat, the ai...

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Human Rights

Beautiful Resistance: Why Protest In All Art Matters

Recently I was at a dinner party of my peers, which is to say: Not Young People. (Thus far, most Generation Xers refuse to refer to themselves as middle-aged, though we sur...

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