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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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| I received Richard Louv’s new book the day I received the news that I was to become a father for the first time. The book, 'Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder', is a timely reminder of the challenges that lie ahead ...more |
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| Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without them, life would be very different — there would be no chocolate for a start! We pass trees every day but how often do we really take a close look at them? Close your eyes and picture ...more |
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| Like the rest of our planet, the oceans are also informing us of their limitations. 50 years ago it was inconceivable that the seemingly never ending fish stocks would deplete, yet humanity's hunger for seafood has grown to the point where now the ocean i ...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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| 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 price of both coffee and cocoa beans has fallen; however; profit margins for major coffee and chocolate companies have soared.
In recent years, the coffee industry has been transformed from a managed market where governments played an active r ...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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| As the scary studies about plastic’s health effects pile up, should we kick the habit? We have become addicted to the freedom plastics have apparently afforded us, but at what cost? Are we poisoning ourselves whenever we eat or drink from a plastic contai ...more |
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| Farmers’ markets — the ‘quiet revolution’ that is resuscitating rural Australia and restoring our health and wellbeing.
They are bringing back sleepy little towns from the brink, resuscitating regional economies, giving birth to new businesses, increasin ...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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| Contrary to most of the scientific studies undertaken with regards flouridation of our water supplies, our governments seem committed to overriding democratic rights and poisoning the water supply. Cursory examination of the facts reveals this policy to b ...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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| 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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| Given the dangers and environmental costs associated with plastics, more and more people are turning back to wooden toys. It is, however, still important to check on the origins and manufacturing ethics of all toys, wooden and otherwise. ...more |
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| The tale of how plastics and toxins are endangering children’s health.
One would imagine that there are lots of regulations in place to protect consumers and our kids from toxic toys. ...more |
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| Health professionals worldwide are waking up to the hazards posed by water flouridation, saying that flouride, a neurotoxin, is hazardous to children and to adults, with flouride being linked to many childhood and adult illnesses. ...more |
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| The giant food corporations have one mission: selling more food and beverage products to consumers. Succeeding with that mission depends on keeping consumers in the dark on certain issues such as the presence of cancer-causing chemicals found in popular f ...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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| 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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| I believe that women have the fate of the Earth in the palm of their hands. Some 53 per cent of us are women and we really are pretty wimpish. We don’t step up to the plate — and it’s time we took over. I think men have had their turn ...more |
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