This resource (article) was shared on NE social media by Linda Hamilton. Excerpt: Gross misconceptions about what constitutes normal sleep patterns in infancy and early childhood abound, even in professional circles. In both methods of CIO described above, babies and/or toddlers are repeatedly left alone to fall into cycles of sleep. Over time, they learn not to signal to their
Dr. Suzanne Humphries speaks on the question of vaccine safety and offers information about how authorities work to persuade people to vaccinate. This lecture’s first part (of four) contains information about tetanus. Dr Humphries speaks on the history of the disease, how it works, and how to deal...
This resource was shared by NEU research coord. / faculty member, Dr. Ellen Conner. Read the full article at this website from phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2016-06-self-assembling-icosahedral-protein.html#jCp The same 20-sided solid that was morphed into geodesic domes in the past century may be the shape of things to come in synthetic biology. For University of Washington Institute of Protein Design scientists working to
Talk-Show Series: Crop Circle Science Patty Greer, NewEarth University faculty member at the School of The Living Arts, presents this video as part of her online series – Crop Circle Science. Greer exposes the hidden scientific discoveries of William Levengood and Penny Kelly on this amazing phenomenon. Unknown stories from the fields of Wiltshire England are interlaced with REAL science
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics’ mission is to educate the public about an economics that supports both people and the planet. They believe that a fair and sustainable economy is possible and that citizens working for the common interest can build systems to achieve it. The center recognizes that the environmental and equity crises we now face
This video features a fast-action hand-drawn guide to the history, structure, and purpose of rural electric cooperatives in the United States. It was created by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (http://www.nreca.coop).
Shared by a NEU staff researcher, this resource shares a website of the International Co-operative Alliance, a non-profit international association established in 1895 to advance the co-operative model. The Alliance is the apex organization for co-operatives worldwide, representing 284 co-operative federations and organizations across 95 countries (January ’15). Members of the Alliance are national level co-operative federations, individual co-operative
From the portal, Distributive Enterprise Wiki of Open Source Ecology, this resource illuminates the Distributive Enterprise (DE): a social enterprise that focuses on open economic development – open collaboration in innovation. It is a transparent enterprise which maintains the open replication of such an enterprise – independently by others or with incubation assistance – at the core of its
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? Khalil Gibran
The No Small Change pdf handbook has been designed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to inspire community currency (CC) organizers and help them gain the most from their currency project by learning more about project evaluation and impact assessment. Getting to grips with project evaluation can help to make project aims clearer and also ensure that project support and
Core economics is about the exchange of goods and services to meet human needs. It is a basic human activity and occurred long before there were economists and economic theories. Exchanges occurred because they benefited both parties, and did so without advertising, stock exchanges or global corporations. Exchanges of tools and raw materials between regions occurred even before agriculture
This interesting resource is a website, the Commons created by David Bollier, an American activist and blogger. Commons is not a fixed, universal thing but more a general concept describing durable, dynamic sets of social relationships for managing all sorts of resources: digital, urban, natural, indigenous, rural, cultural, scientific, etc., to use a few rudimentary categories. To enhance your
This resource is a website, NOVAMONT that promotes the development of a green bio-economy model based on the efficient use of renewable resources and regeneration of local areas. It is rooted in the Montedison School of Material Science – green integration of chemistry and agriculture.
This is a good resource in alignment with NEU’s discipline of Ecology & Regeneration, a website, Remineralize the Earth, a paradigm shift away from conventional chemical farming is a new frontier, Soil Remineralization—the key to sustainable agriculture. Has many varied resources for your continued studies. (Turtle Mountain Photo by Dr N Ash from her private collection.)
