2010

Permission, Huffington Post and the Nourishing the Planet blog http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/

By Jim Devries, Executive Vice-President of Programs for Heifer International based in Little Rock, Arkansas and Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute.

Recovery is a word you hear a lot in Rwanda. From public service announcements on television to billboards--it's the motto for a place that just 15 years ago was torn apart by genocide. More than one million people were murdered in 1994, as ethnic strife turned neighbor against neighbor in one of the bloodiest civil wars in African history.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Register for the Arkansas Earth Institute’s “Voluntary Simplicity” discussion course to learn how you can manage the distractions of modern society that keep you from caring for yourself, your relationships and your environment. The seven-week course will be held at Heifer Village, Heifer’s education center in downtown Little Rock.

The Anchorage Public Library staff has really outdone itself with this year's Summer Reading Celebration, which runs through the end of July. The national summer reading theme for children is "One World, Many Stories," so continuing in that vein, staff named the teens' program "You Are Here" and the adults' "Novel Destination."  Participants in all three programs are encouraged to keep track of their reading minutes, which will translate into cash to donate to Heifer International, this year's Readers to the Rescue charity, at the end of the summer.

She’s an investment banking executive who once worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co., but Sheryl WuDunn has little faith in long-revered commodities to save the global economy.

In an interview, WuDunn discussed one eye-opening passage of the book. It describes Jo Luck, head of Heifer International, talking to a group of girls in Zimbabwe. Luck’s international relief organization uses charitable donations to provide destitute families with farm animals, honeybees and other sustainable resources for overcoming hunger and poverty.