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Blog Gone Naked!

April 9, 2008

All day today, April 9th, this blog will be naked. Normally, you see, it is wrapped in a sheet–a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), to be precise, which takes the basic building blocks of Reading Circle Books, the words, paragraphs, pictures, and widgets that make up the content of this site, surrounds them with padding, backgrounds, […]

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Tagged With: CSS, Digital Literacy, Holidays, HTML
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Sacrifices and Community

February 24, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

Do we even know how much we’ve lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we’ve been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?

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Tagged With: Precautionary Principle, Coal, Community of Practice, Environment, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Sandra Steingraber, Traditional Knowledge, Wisconsin
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Do you breathe the water?

February 10, 2008

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

During my first pregnancy, I lived on a truck route. My pregnancy manual, the ubiquitous and sometimes disturbing What to Expect When You’re Expecting, said that unless I was living in a bus terminal or a tollbooth, “breathing in the big city…isn’t as risky as you might think…. Even in the 1960s, when pollution was […]

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Shelved with: Biology|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Amniocentesis, Birth Defects, Chicago, Environment, Food, Having Faith, Parenting, Pregnancy, Sandra Steingraber, Scleroderma, Water
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What Are Blogs? Not Monologues but Conversations

January 20, 2008

Here at the beginning of the 21st Century, the internet connects us (however imperfectly) across barriers of geography, race, class, age, ability, family situation, income, education, religion, culture, and even language. The monologue of the powerful few, for good or ill, is overcome by connections among the many. With those connections come power — ordinary people like you and me are given the power (and therefore the responsibility) of participation in each others’ lives.

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Science & Technology|| RCB
Tagged With: Community, Digital Literacy, Education, RCB, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Timothy Tyson
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