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I was not initially going to subject list members to any shameless self 
promotion on our first small Kickstarter project, as it is only slightly 
Permaculture related, but it seems that the staff have taken a liking to the 
idea, so I wanted to share with you here.

Yesterday we were featured on top of the KS blog page.
 
http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/new-projects-are-living-forever

Even better news. The top item on the KS Facebook page is a link to the blog 
and the image they are using is the Mayan patch.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/800173688/2012-mayan-calendar-on-a-state-of-the-art-patch?ref=video

It just goes to show that if you have a project (however whacky it seems), KS 
is a great venue for getting things started.

Chris

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Worst Food Additive Ever? It's in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its
Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children | | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/152848/worst_food_additive_ever_it%27s_in_half_of_all_foods_we_eat_and_its_production_destroys_rainforests_and_enslaves_children/?page=entire

Worst Food Additive Ever? It's in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its
Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children
The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping amounts of
deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) and human rights abuses.
October 24, 2011  |

"On August 10, police and security for the massive palm oil
corporation Wilmar International (of which Archer Daniels Midland is
the second largest shareholder) stormed a small, indigenous village on
the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They came with bulldozers and guns,
destroying up to 70 homes, evicting 82 families, and arresting 18
people. Then they blockaded the village, keeping the villagers in --
and journalists out. (Wilmar claims it has done no wrong.)

The village, Suku Anak Dalam, was home to an indigenous group that
observes their own traditional system of land rights on their
ancestral land and, thus, lacks official legal titles to the land.
This is common among indigenous peoples around the world -- so common,
in fact, that it is protected by the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples"

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