Jessa Lee Scott is the nom de plume for mother-daughter writers from Richmond, Virginia. Originally from Texas, Jessa Scott moved to Virginia after she was married, and lived in a variety of regions in Virginia. When asked to describe the key issues of her book,Winds of Gold Scott said that according to legend, Thomas Jefferson […]
Finally, Safe Drinking Water for the Thousands in Kenya
Kristen Kosinski, the founder of The Samburu Project and former executive at Paramount Network Television in Hollywood, believes all people have a primal need to connect with Mother Earth. In 2005, she traveled to Kenya with the intention of researching a documentary about indigenous tribal women. Through her local Kenyan contacts, she identified a guide […]
Leaburg, Oregon and the River Run Art Gallery
While we were house sitting for our kids in Eugene, we drove back and forth to an organic blueberry farm that was located east of Leaburg, Oregon. At the McKenzie River Blueberry Farm, we harvested, sorted and packed blueberries, eating our share in the process. We also harvested and ate our fill of raspberries and […]
Mexico’s Calderón comes to Washington
Although President-elect Obama’s meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón is considered by some to be largely ceremonial, Calderón has a wish list of topics to bring up when he visits Obama in Washington, D.C. today. He hopes to advance the relationship with Obama and promote fundamentals for a strategic association, especially in regard to organized […]
Chasing a bIllion votes
The campaign by the agency Janagraha’s One Billion Votes campaign is timely. In particular it attempts to address the apathy that many middle class urban people demonstrate towards their civic duties and responsibilities while assuming naively that things would always work. The task is ambitious and labor intensive for the Jaago Re campaign does not […]
Day Two of Global Voices 2008 Summit in Budapest: The Democratization of the Internet
Posted by Deborah Anne Dilley to Global Voices Online While Day One of the Global Voices Summit focused on Advocacy, today focused more upon Global Voices proper, with information presented on the other GV projects of Rising Voices and Lingua. The day began with an introduction by Georgia Poppelwell (GV Managing Director) and Solana Larsen […]
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