With dark good looks and a charisma that some liken to that of Andreas Papandreou, the founder of Pasok and a wildly popular former prime minister, Mr. Tsipras ran a disciplined campaign in which Syriza was present in all forms of grass-roots protest movements.
(Grazing cows encounter only tiny amounts of grain, in the form of grass seeds).
Pure-Seed was apparently singled out because of its experiments with a genetically modified form of grass that could be used for putting greens on golf courses.
This year New York was host to two dozen mini-parks, scattered around the five boroughs, all offering some combination of rest and play, in the form of grass, shade, benches and games.
As broom corn (often considered a form of grass and occasionally weed), it bears not ears but tassels, a variety rarely used for human food and grown instead for handicrafts or animal feed.
The NYT puts out a fine product; imagine a super-powered form of grass roots global syndication in which the type of reporting citizens can't do becomes the instigator of a creative chain reaction to which they can add real value.
Orchards are complex perennial agroecosystems formed of grass and tree layers aiming at the production of fresh fruit that require specific design and management over space and time.
At the same time, the military has started gathering elders at weekly meetings to start some form of grass-roots decision-making process and to resolve local grievances.
The images are the core of "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs," an unusual exhibition that is the latest form of grass-roots public mourning, like the shrines, sidewalk drawings and expanses of written messages that sprang up around New York in the days just after the attack.
"Gezi Park was full of children and the elderly after it was officially opened, and we were on our way to gather for a forum," Mr. Yilmazturk said, in reference to public assemblies in city parks that have replaced street protests as a form of grass-roots organizing.
