“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama
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Leigh Jerrard is the founder of Grey Water Corps, a company dedicated to recapturing bath and laundry water for landscape irrigation. On April 8, 2014, he spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about installing grey water systems.

Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/qSLFtuLwM4c

Bipasha Shom recorded this video.

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Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:

A new study has found that women still lag far behind men on wages, as Congress gets ready to vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. The study, by the National Partnership for …

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A five week long election in the world’s largest democracy began yesterday with 814 million voters, 10 million election officials and 930,000 polling stations for 543 open seats. The numbers are staggering but behind these statistics is a vote which will determine the fate of over 1.2 billion people in India’s 2014 Lok …

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An April 29th deadline for Palestinians and Israelis to agree on a framework for peace talks is fast approaching. However, it looks increasing likely that one or both sides may withdraw even earlier.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has hoped to claim progress in resolving the conflict as a signature achievement of …

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“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” — C. S. Lewis
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Surveyors from California’s Department of Water Resources skied into the Sierra Mountains on April 1st and returned with grim news. California’s historic drought is set to continue with that area’s snow pack at a frighteningly low 29 percent. The area is a strong indicator for regional water levels.

Despite the historic drought, Californians …

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We’ll analyze India’s elections as the world’s largest democracy readies itself for enormous logistical and political challenges. And, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority stumble – we’ll find out why. Plus, at a time of California’s historic drought, we’ll explore grey waters systems as one pathway toward greater sustainability. …

“Wherever the killing season should next begin and people should become strangers to their neighbors and themselves, my hope is there will still be those ordinary men who say a quiet no.” — Paul Rusesabagina …

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Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, analyzes today’s news headlines:

Dozens of people have been killed in election-related violence in Afghanistan over the weekend even …

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