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RIO +20 Collapse -- photo source Powerful words from George Monbiot: After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet  T...

It's all about trade and commodities. Last week, on the sidelines of RIO +20, Brazil and China have jointly reinforced their financ...

Saint John lives in Brazil, for sure in the music.

More music for the night of São João and Xango:

All across Brazil, tonight belongs to São João.  Here is some (sorry that it's incomplete) of Gilberto Gil's documentary about the t...

I didn't expect much from RIO +20 but it was hard to see the world leaders so unable to come up with anything but words that attempt to...

Air-conditioning in Mumbai, India -- Photo: Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times [UPDATE 22 June -- There's a follow-up debate tod...

I am no fan of Obama but the principled pronouncements of the pompous professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger fall clearly into my major "G...

... and much more from Rumi through Coleman Barks

The word "understanding" literally means to "stand under" or to be at the root of things.

EXCELLENT! Thanks to the production efforts of David Suzuki, who can be counted on to cut through the confusion and sensationalism to fi...

Late last night I was contemplating the up-coming RIO+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. I was, realistically (I believe), not f...

Auroville , the South Indian visionary community flowing from the legacy of Sri Auribindo has a video about making spiritual works ( s...

Yup, you read right. After the recent series of line-item vetoes by President Dilma Rousseff, no one knows what Brazil's latest Codig...

Here in Brazil (and many places), May is the month of the Mother, of the great feminine force. Now, at the end of May, seems like a perfe...