Bakin’ Up Some (Nerdy) Cookies

This coming weekend marks Memorial Day in the United States, which for me mostly means a long weekend, planting my container garden, and having a cookout with my friends.  And if there’s one thing that you probably shouldn’t bring to a gathering with my friends, it’s probably sugar (we’re all plenty hyper naturally). So, naturally, [...]

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Always Looking Forward

Last week, I talked about the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. Today, I’d like to go back and talk a little more about that from a different angle.

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Urgent: Sahel Day of Action

The Hunger Games are never truly at an end, as we all know. The only question is, where’s the next arena? Well, the Sahel region of West Africa looks like a very likely candidate, unless we can put a stop to it before it’s too late.

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“Capitol”-ism in Action: Classism and The Hunger Games

Staffers Kaci Ferrell and Amber Surface discuss the constant slurs that Southerners, and especially Appalachians face in our society, and how this form of classism has been brought to light by The Hunger Games.

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It’s a Wrap! Hunger is #notagame.

The Hunger is Not a Game campaign is coming to a close. Check out the results and tell us what you thought of it!

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The Reaping is Color Blind

Likely, you’ve noticed that the books that get the most press attention are the ones that tend to be targeted by book challengers. So color me shocked when The Hunger Games landed itself on ALA’s Most Banned and Challenged Books list for 2011, coming in at a very respectable number three. It’s not the first [...]

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Yep, your tomatoes are illegal now, and don’t you dare feed the neighbors

New Zealand is well on it’s way to handing over it’s most basic right to the government.

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Are We the Capitol?

In Monday’s vlog Julian posed two questions: “How can we break through the norms of our society that prioritizes the wrong problems, and do you think you do enough to help end world hunger?” Easy questions, yes? Right. Not so much. They’re great questions. Don’t get me wrong. But I’ve been sitting here for quite [...]

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Clean Your Plate

“Finish your food. There are starving children in [insert country here], you know.” Did your mom ever use that line when you were growing up and the last thing you wanted to do was finish those lima beans on your dinner plate? Turns out she wasn’t so far off-base on that persuasive argument. According to [...]

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Considering the Horrors in “The Hunger Games”, Race Shouldn’t Be One

Adam Mazo is the Director of the documentary film Coexist. Coexist is a documentary and educational outreach project which includes a 40-minute film, Viewer’s Guide, curricular and technical support, which constitute a ready-to-use toolkit for incorporation into programs on anti-violence, conflict resolution, anti-bullying and other standards-aligned curricula by school districts, youth development organizations, colleges and [...]

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