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Think about the last time you were walking in an old growth forest. Remember that smell of the fresh forest air, the calming sound of birds, the serene backdrop of leaves gently swaying on the wind and the sun’s rays peeking through the lush canopy? Remember how with each step you took you could feel …

Source: How to Use Native Fungi to Improve Soil Quality and Bulletproof Your Food Forest Against Disease – Permaculture Apprentice

Studies have shown that people will act on their values if they see others around them doing it. So keep being you and you’ll start seeing your friends and family change around you!

Source: How You’re Inspiring Others To Change The World, Just By Doing Your Thing | 1 Million Women

FROM GIRLS FIGHT BACK: “I didn’t know then that 1 in 4 women are victims of intimate partner violence. I also didn’t know that, on average, a woman tries to leave her partner seven times before she succeeds. Abuse happens on a spectrum, and it happens slowly. Much like a lobster in a pot, you don’t know you’re in danger until the water is already bubbling around you. You’ve already been cooking for a while the first time you get hit; you just didn’t know it. What kind of person does end up in a relationship like that? Apparently, a person like me. And maybe even a person like you or like someone you know. It’s 1 in 4 of us, and that means it’s your friends, your sisters, your accountant, even the woman in the big house on the corner. It’s so frightfully common, yet we don’t talk about it, and we should. Shrouding abuse in shame and silence protects abusers, and it keeps people from asking for help.”

 

Source: I Went Back To My Abuser After A Week. This Is Why It’s So Hard For Women To Get Out For Good. | HuffPost

Chef Denise Vallejo is serving up vegan Mexican food that’s all about indigenous ingredients.

Source: Vegan Chef Uses Indigenous Ingredients to Decolonize Mexican Food

With the earth warming, and weather patterns becoming harsher, drought and water scarcity are becoming a fact of life for many people across the globe. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a garden, you just have to get smart about using your resources!

Source: How to make a hugelkultur raised garden bed | 1 Million Women

It’s not just Donald Trump who thinks Saturday Night Live should pump the brakes on politics.

Source: Should SNL be less political? A lot of Americans think so

‘The Refugees’ author Viet Thanh Nguyen writes on what it means to love America, and his experience growing up as an immigrant from Vietnam

Source: I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It | Time

Saving indigenous languages from extinction is the only way to preserve centuries of traditional knowledge about plants and animals yet to be discovered by Western scientists

Source: Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge | New Scientist