Rural

The Promise of a Plant in the Fight Against Malaria

Crystal Wells | Posted 05.13.2013 | Impact

Read More: Rwanda, Poverty, International Development, Plasmodium-Falciparum, Health, Malaria, Public Health, Rwandan Genocide, Tanzania, Development, Aid Workers, Ngo, Health Care, Mosquito, Rural, Burundi, Impact News

Dora Joseph, 31, is raising four children in a tin-roofed, two-room house nestled in the remote green hills of northwestern Tanzania. Her eyes are tired and dampened with worry.

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The Greatest Migration: China's Urbanization

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.30.2013 | World

Read More: Urbanization, Urbanisation, Labor, Immigration, Statistics, Rural, Urbanism, China, Chinese Migration, World News

The larger story, which can really only be told through numbers, is about how "China's urban population has increased from 180 million people in 1978 to 690 [million] now" and since rural birth rates consistently outpace urban ones, it is specifically a tale of rural to urban migration.

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The Power Of A Shared Meal

Anna Brones | Posted 12.30.2012 | Home

Read More: Kabul, Food, People, Eating, Travel, Afghanistan, Village, Rural, Culture, Home News

Food and travel go hand in hand, not just because it allows a view into a culture, but also because it provides a thread for connecting two people from two very different places. Put a pot of tea in the center of table and language barriers immediately begin to wash away.

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19 Million Americans Without High-Speed Internet

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 08.22.2012 | Technology

Read More: Connect America, Fcc Rural Internet, Video, High-Speed Internet, Fcc Rural Internet Access, Fcc, Rural, Digital Divide, Broadband Access, Technology News

About 19 million Americans still have no access to high-speed Internet, according to a new report by the Federal Communications Commission. About 1...

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Don't Tell Me to Join a Group

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 08.24.2012 | Women

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Making Friends, Move, No Friends, Hate Groups, Neighbors, Isolated, Rural, Advice, Women News

I am a forty-something woman with no kids. I used to have friends, a life and a career. Then we moved to a rural area for my husband's job in the UK and five years on, I seem to have nothing.

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What Do You Do? Identity vs. Work, East vs. West

Andrew Lam | Posted 08.25.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Ambition, West, America, Work, East, Employment, Cosmopolitan, Vietnam, Future, Rural, Urban, American Dream, Happiness, Culture, Healthy Living News

A while back, when I was visiting my mother's ancestral village in Thai Binh province in northern Vietnam, it occurred to me that, after a barrage of questions from distant relatives, not once did anyone ask that common question in America: "So, what do you do?"

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How To Deal With College 'Culture Shock'

| Posted 05.24.2012 | Teen

Read More: Move, Small Town, College, College Transition, High School, City, Campus, Big, College Life, Rural, Her Campus, Culture Shock, New York City, Teen News

By Hannah Orenstein The transition from high school to college is undoubtedly one of the biggest you'll make throughout your life. Some of those ch...

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Faces of Wilcannia (PHOTOS)

David Maurice Smith | Posted 03.04.2012 | World

Read More: Photography, Of, Poverty, Australia, Wilcannia, New, Rural, Culture, Faces, Documentary, Slidefreestyle, Aboriginal, Portrait, Slidepollajax, Exposure, South Wales, World News

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Haitian Movements Branch Out

Salena Tramel | Posted 12.13.2011 | World

From a small village in the central plateau to forgotten towns in the north and south, grassroots organizers are demonstrating that their solutions are the way towards a new Haiti.

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Cops Find 5 Bodies In Rural Area Near Mexico City

AP | Posted 10.28.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Mass Grave, Mexico City, Mexico Drug War, Rural Mexico, Mexico, Almoloya De Juarez, Dead Bodies, Excavation, Rural, Latino Voices News

MEXICO CITY -- A phone call to a relative of a missing person led police to excavate a corn field in a farming town not far from the capital, and disc...

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Who Is This Boy?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Muessig | Posted 11.16.2011 | Weird News

Read More: Video, Dead Boy Maine, Crime, Police, Missing Boy, South Berwick, Boy, Rural, Maine, Maine State Police, Dead Child Maine, Hemlock, Toyota Tacoma, Missing Child, Road, Unidentified Boy, Weird News News

Who is this boy? Investigators in Maine continue to ask this question two days after discovering the body of an unidentified four- or five-year-old...

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Midwest A Victim Of 'Rural Brain Drain'

Matt Vasilogambros | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Read More: Great Plains, Iowa, Brain Drain, West Virginia, Midwest, Maria Kefalas, Agriculture, Sustainability, St. Joseph's University, Rural, Manufacturing Jobs, Rural Brain Drain Iowa, Rural Brain Drain, Hollowing Out the Middle, College News

Small towns across the country are dying off, and college students are partly to blame.

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The Rural Photographer Rises Again -- Forrest Holzapfel

Ethan Murrow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Documentary, Porter Thayer, Marlboro College, 8"x10" Camera, Blurb, Viewfinder Camera, Historical Society, Photographs, Vermont, Marlboro, Vermont Folklife Center, Rural, Ethan Murrow, Forrest Holzapfel, Arts News

Over the last ten years Holzapfel has systematically and inventively documented Marlboro, Vermont, through a wealth of photographs, recordings and writing.

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Raising Your Own Hens

Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Farming, Raising Hens, Richard Wiswall, Vermont, Hens, Rural, New York City, Organic Farmer, Happiness, Green News

I've been raising laying hens for about a year, and I've never been happier. I have fresh eggs whenever I want them and I've come to love chickens for all their neurotic, pecking glory.

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Community Coup: Chickens Are the New Dog

Zem Joaquin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Farming, Chickens, Solar, Organic Garden, Domestic Pets, Grow, Trends, Urban Agriculture, Rural, Organic, Agrarian, Urban, Eggs, Chicken, Poultry, Environment, Hens, Green News

We got our hens after we had to give up our dog due to my son's allergies. I decided that if I was getting a new pet, it was going to reciprocate and have some positive environmental claw-print.

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Don't Forget Rural America

Rep. Mike Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Rural Communities, Mike Thompson Rural America, Mike Thompson, Rural Voters, Rural, Rural America, Rural Americans, Politics News

Rural communities are hit even harder by the tough economy, especially when it comes to jobs, yet we fail to invest equitably in their economic health.

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Poverty in America: The Problems and Solutions

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.

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Edwards' Endorsement Frees Obama In Picking Running Mate

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Off the Bus, Vice President, Blue Collar, John Edwards Endorses Obama, West Virginia, John Edwards, Running Mate, Hillary Clinton, Breaking Off the Bus News, Rural, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, White Voters, Home News

Clinton doesn't help Obama with his electoral map in November. He needs someone who has both pull in the states he wants to win and who can help repair rifts with rural white voters. Two names immediately come to mind.

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