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| Local food creates jobs and helps build resilient communities. Here are even more reasons why buying local food is the healthier, more sustainable option.
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| Psychiatry says that ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a 'mental illness' that strikes millions of our children, requiring that they take stimulant drugs to hold their disease at bay... This is our definition of ADHD: ...more |
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| Each month the moon moves through all twelve constellations of the zodiac in turn. This is referred to as the moon’s sidereal cycle and forms the basis of the Biodynamic calendar. ...more |
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| For nearly two years, we have been hearing reports of chickens, migratory birds and humans dying from an aggressive form of influenza, called avian, or bird, flu. But what really is bird flu? ...more |
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| Blowin’ in the Wind, by award winning filmmaker David Bradbury and co-producer Peter Scott is a wake-up film that exposes the genocidal catastrophe of the use of depleted uranium in weapons. ...more |
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| When we think about our children today, it is difficult to feel optimistic about their future. The crises all around us seem to increase day by day - from unemployment and community breakdown to global warming and terrorism - problems that seem insurmount ...more |
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| 'If our earth is to survive, we need to take responsibility for what we do. Taking control of our education is the first step.'
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| Every mother intuitively knows the supreme importance of the relationship between her and her child with every fibre of her being, for Nature has designed it to be this way. There is nothing obscure or esoteric about the bond of intuitive connectedness th ...more |
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| Each day we participate in a vast global industry that wields huge consequences to the health of the planet, the animals and to ourselves.
That industry is agriculture. Peter Singer and Jim Mason reveal the politics on our plates in an extract from their ...more |
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| The global marketplace is becoming increasingly vulnerable and volatile. Financial turmoil on the other side of the world has led to job losses much closer to home. Hardly a day passes in Europe and North America without another take-over of a community b ...more |
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| Today’s mounting social and ecological crises demand responses that are broad, deep, and strategic. Given the widespread destruction wrought by globalisation, it seems clear that the most powerful solutions will involve a fundamental change in direction — ...more |
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| Page 2 of Going Local by Helena Norberg-Hodge
For virtually the whole of human history most human cultures have relied on food produced within a reasonable distance. The logic is unassailable: locally grown food is fresher, and so tastier and more nutrit ...more |
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| World wide community gardens are springing up and with them a growing sense of community, of belonging. Local food, being responsible for and engaged in food production is transforming communities, bringing people together and breaking down the barriers. ...more |
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| Lots of people I know are opting to have their local Council come and change all their lightbulbs to compact flouro lights (CFLs) in the (mistaken) belief that is somehow going to reduce global warming. ...more |
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| Circumcision — ten years ago I had trouble spelling the word. I would stumble over the pronunciation of it, had I cause to use it, which I rarely did. Then Marilyn Milos entered my life through our founding meeting of the Alliance for Transforming the Liv ...more |
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| The products in your bathroom are much more dangerous than you may think. In fact, there could be a potentially lethal cocktail of ingredients lurking inside...
You would hardly expect that what you put on your body to cleanse, hydrate and rejuvenate y ...more |
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| The Kindred continuum of principle and manifesto recognises a fundamental but often overlooked aspect of children’s health and wellbeing — to protect them from exposure to toxic environments. ...more |
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| Elimination communication, also known as Natural Infant Hygiene or simply Nappy Free, is a recent trend in Australia. This very natural, gentle, environmentally-friendly way of dealing with your baby’s waste. ...more |
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| The world of nappies can be daunting for new parents, so we have supplied this page as a glossary of terms. ...more |
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| Until 1946, cloth nappies were the only nappies that existed in Western society. They were usually cotton or muslin. There were no nappy covers except for knitted wool pants. With few covers and basic washing facilities, motivation was very high to train ...more |
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| Tips on choosing a nappy, facts on disposable nappies, cloth nappy options, washing tips, price and waste disposal, healthy choices for your baby ...more |
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| In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its use by the US Military in Iraq in 1991 and again in the current Iraq war. The photos of birth deformities and stories of suffering resulting from DU shocked me, reminding me ...more |
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| While environmental issues were on the radar screen when I was at school from the late 70s through to 1990, the issues were not as ominous a concern as they are today. The environment was still viewed by most as a backdrop to life, not an issue that thre ...more |
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| You're the first person to argue for a more sustainable lifestyle for the sake of the planet and also for your own health, but where do you start? And will it really make a difference to the big picture?
Forget trying to change the big picture — that can ...more |
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| I have Aboriginal blood, I have Islander blood and I have white blood so I have a mixed nationality really. I belong to the Midjuanbal clan up at Tweed.
We were the first black family to live in Kingscliff. I watched a lot of relationships between fath ...more |
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| s it really possible to raise a baby without nappies? Can our babies actually communicate their elimination needs? Well, how do you know when your baby needs to breastfeed? ...more |
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| It kind of crept up on me towards the end of 2005, as it was being slowly introduced into editorials, news items, and page three stories. All of a sudden, it was common knowledge: nuclear power was not only back on the agenda, but it was apparently green ...more |
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| These claims are from the Uranium Information Centre:1
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In all countries using nuclear energy there are well established procedures for storing, managing and transporting nuclear wastes. Storage is safe and secure, plans are well in hand for event ...more |
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| Myth: Nuclear power is green
Reality: If the entire production cycle is considered, then nuclear is not only no ‘greener’ than gas, it is actually far less green as the greenhouse gas (GHG) inputs into nuclear power are so massive. Roughly 32 years of a ...more |
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| Since the 1980s the US has spent some $5 billion on storage facilities deep within the supposedly geologically stable Yucca Mountains in Nevada, and still issues arise over the ability to maintain an air- and watertight environment for the minimum 100,000 ...more |
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| The nuclear lobby’s biggest argument over renewables relates to their supposed inability to provide base load power. Up to and only up to a point is this true.
Every home reliant on solar power knows shortages when it is cloudy etc. However, new and vari ...more |
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| A garden at ones school may in fact be of greater education value than the normal curriculum. To learn and understand permaculture techniques, the seasons, how plants grow and how it feels to eat from a garden, that vegies and fruit grow in soil not shops ...more |
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| For many families, resorting to daycare is far from the first choice — intuitively, most people realise that being with the mother, or father, or other consistent, loving family member, is essential for the intellectual and emotional growth of their child ...more |
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| Along with the disintegration of extended families, the past few decades have seen an increasing amount of social and economic pressures being placed on the nuclear family unit. Our culture is more geared towards rampant consumerism than towards supportin ...more |
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| Disillusioned with synthetic life and compelled to live more deeply, Lisa Reagan writes about her return to the earth, and as a result, to herself.
Windsong, a small white horse rented to carry a diamond engagement ring in a leather bag draped around his ...more |
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| What makes one child positive, motivated and friendly while another child fearful, negative and lacking motivation? Is in the DNA of a child, a certain gene that creates a successful disposition? Are children just born that way? Studies have shown that we ...more |
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| If you want to create a more sustainable society, a good place to start is by helping to rebuild your local food economy: food is something everyone, everywhere, needs every day, which means that even relatively small changes in the way it is produced and ...more |
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| Myth # 1: Biotechnology will benefit farmers
Reality: Biotechnology seeks to ‘industrialise agriculture' even further, converting agriculture into a branch of industry.
Biotechnology is capital intensive and increases concentration of agriculture prod ...more |
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| It was the mid 1960s when highschooler Deborah Koons stared at the gnarled radish plants in her bedroom window and frowned, ‘I'm not going to eat that,' she decided. Following in the footsteps of the notorious Dr. Frankenstein, the Texas teenager purposel ...more |
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| January 28, 2006 — Indigenous peoples were betrayed and farmers' rights trampled at a UN meeting this week when the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian governments — guided by the US Government and a brazen cabal of corporate gene giants — took a major s ...more |
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| Embracing the ideal of progressive, natural parenting is a lot easier than actually walking the talk. When idealistic intentions race far ahead of practical abilities, staying the course requires a willingness to inhabit the paradoxical space of the heali ...more |
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| Paul Kurnit is the president of KidShop, an advertising firm that specialises in marketing to children, and he has plans for our kids. 'Kid business has become big business,' Kurnit says. To make it even bigger, he preaches what he calls 'surround marketi ...more |
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| When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis — feeding the population — and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society? Cuba’s innovative response is an inspiration for countries around th ...more |
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| An interview with Roy Steiner, Senior Program Manager, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
On the 12th of September, 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation joined the Rockefeller Foundation in announcing the formation of the Alliance for a Green Revol ...more |
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| You walk into your local supermarket.
You look down the lolly aisle to see a tiny toddler on the floor, kicking and screaming.
Is he misbehaving or manipulating, playing up or throwing a tantrum, or is this a case of the terrible twos?
These phrase ...more |
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| As extended families shrink, communities dwindle and the need to work increases, the need for childcare grows. But at what cost?
Where are those 'smug stay-at-home mums' that people keep talking about? They must exist, since you often see them referred ...more |
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| On Tuesday the first on January 2008, The Echo newspaper reported that Mullumbimby supermarket, Mallams, had been purchased by Woolworths who plan to build a supermarket on Station Street Mullumbimby by mid 2009. ...more |
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| Why biodynamic, organic, ethical and sustainable food is good for more than our health. ...more |
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| Go play outside! Rare words in today's screen driven childhoods. As the appreciation of and exposure to nature is replaced by relationships with screens and games, the relationship with ones own nature withers for lack of nurture. Parents need to reclaim ...more |
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| It seems that since the publication of the previous edition of Kindred, a mere three months ago, there has been a quickening in human consciousness. Perhaps this is best illustrated in the climate change debate. What was purely a ‘green’ issue ...more |
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