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Sarah Shaw Tatoun's Blog – May 2010 Archive (8)

Where to, Evoke?

  • WHICH great challenges and social problems should the EVOKE Network tackle next?
1) The most urgent is climate change. Mark Mulkerin, one of my favorite agents here, cited the lack of focus on it as one of the reasons he withdrew.



2) Just as urgent, but more difficult to tackle is the question of how to ensure that everyone is able to participate freely, without fear of being attacked, insulted, scorned… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 10, 2010 at 10:54pm — 7 Comments

New Lives for Old

Looking at the shining faces of these young girls is moving like nothing I've ever experienced. Many of them wouldn't be alive at all if it weren't for some of the initiatives supported by Women Deliver and the Safe Motherhood Initiative over the years. Those that lived would have lost their mothers and been left to care of male relatives in this still very… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 8, 2010 at 2:53am — 3 Comments

Women Deliver/HopePhones

As a follow up to my previous post I am following Women Deliver on Twitter and Facebook. I've asked on their Facebook page about the possibility of teaming up with HopePhones. I'll be making my first donation to HopePhones next week and will ask at the conference I'm attending in the middle of the month if others have… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 8, 2010 at 2:20am — 1 Comment

A Life for a Life

In some places people still believe in the ancient law of Hammurabi: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth-- and a life for a life. In no time or place, however, have people ever believed in the 'law' which nature all too often enforces: a mother's life as the 'price' for giving birth to her child. United Nations Secretary General Ban says, "No woman should have to pay with her life to be a mother." Few… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 7, 2010 at 11:41pm — 6 Comments

The Gift of Uncertainty

My hundredth birthday. Of course we don't celebrate birthdays anymore the way we used to, and I am just as glad. Both the frugality and the respect for age that have become the new cultural norms around the world suit me just fine. I was never happy in the consumer culture that I was born into so long ago-- in 1953-- and although I didn't always fight it as fiercely as I perhaps should have, I find life much more pleasant now that we all use money so rarely. One thing is very much the same as… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 7, 2010 at 7:15pm — 1 Comment

Potlatch Bank

For residents of Seattle, Washington, the opening this afternoon of the Potlatch Mutual Bank is only the formalization of an informal local economy that has been growing since 2010, when the US economy went into the second 'dip' of the recessionary/deflationary cycle from which it has still not fully recovered. For people outside the area, however, the practices which have created a vibrant, sustainable local economy require a little more explanation.



First of all, the word '… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 4, 2010 at 3:50am — 2 Comments

On-going Efforts to Revive Knowledge and Use of Kenya's Indigenous Plants

In 1989, Kenya's National Museums, with the help of two NGO's, began a program to compile a database of indigenous food plants. Included in the data collected was information on the agronomy, nutrition, culture and markets for priority

species. The purpose was to promote cultivation, consumption and marketing of these ancient food sources. With participation from nearly 140,000 people, who reached a further million people and the taste for… Continue

Added by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on May 3, 2010 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

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