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| So how do we help our children to interact with the natural world and not be consumed by the virtual reality of the digital age? Take the initiative and interact with nature. ...more |
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| One rarely thinks of motherhood as political. But as Kali Wendorf, editor of Kindred sees it, mothers, and fathers, need to find their voices in the political domain. "Our world is becoming increasingly sterile and hostile. We are moving away from the ...more |
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| A Kindred world exclusive. On the eve of an historic, billion-dollar world vaccination campaign, a leaked transcript ignites questions of vaccine safety and research corruption. ...more |
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| While many of us in the West take our education for granted there are so many who are denied the basic human right to learn in underprivileged countries, especially girls. ...more |
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| Australia's own home-based learning community has created a rich tapestry of grassroots networks of folks simply getting on with the job of facilitating learning experiences for their children. ...more |
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| Do our policy-makers know what is best for our families? Is their rhetoric on providing a ‘head start in life’ with early day care based on solid research, or is it more about serving their political party’s socio-economic agenda? ...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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| Western culture has built an entire system of care — obstetrics — around the belief a woman is not able to successfully birth on her own. ...more |
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| Adopting an eleven-year-old boy, Laurie Couture was determined to play catch up with years of missed bonding and attachment for her adopted son. Normally an older adoptee has more history of pain and rejection than someone younger, thus it was a great jou ...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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| My daughter would like to know just about everything, and is not above asking all the questions, all day long. How are teddy bears made? How do you make windows? Who is the Sandman? ...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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| 'It takes a village to raise a child' In the light of some of the events of the past decade, this well-known statement has a poignant, somewhat hollow ring to it. ...more |
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| Alice, the mother of a seven-year-old son, Nathan, recently visited my office for a counseling session. Nathan had reportedly been different and difficult from the beginning. ...more |
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| Are these terms mutually exclusive, or can they be complementary? Can they co-exist within the confines of parenthood?
Women, particularly young women, find the idea of feminism as something outdated, out of touch. Many of these women may never contempla ...more |
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| Have feminists, in their quest for equality rather than liberation, led women out of the frying pan into the fire, with adverse repercussions for themselves, their families, and social wellbeing? If so, as plans affecting the family develop, it is importa ...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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| Imagine a group of pre-pubescent girls, their mothers and friends sitting in the afternoon shade weaving, or sewing, or preparing food. There are giggles and stories and cackles and songs and heartfelt sharing. The scene seems simple, timeless, so natural ...more |
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| The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, terrorised, and sexually abused.
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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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| 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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| 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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| This is a story about Villawood—about why I went there, what I found there, and why I’m still going there today.
Once a hostel for newly arrived migrants who dreamed of a better life, today Villawood is an immigration detention centre for displaced perso ...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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| A relatively new principle for guiding human activities, to prevent harm to the environment and to human health has been emerging during the past ten years. It is called the ‘principle of precautionary action’ or the ‘precautionary principle’ for short. A ...more |
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| Nearly 90 per cent of ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products have not been safety tested for human health effects. However, some ubiquitous ingredients such as parabens have been shown to be estrogenic. ...more |
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| According to industry estimates, on any given day an average consumer may use as many as 25 different cosmetic and personal care products, including shampoo, nail polish, aftershave and lotion, containing more than 200 different chemical compounds.
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| In the name of removing wrinkles and lines, not only are most cosmetics not good for you, reports Alf Orpen; in fact, they may even speed up the ageing process.
Out of Paris, New York, London and Rome continuously come sensational ‘new’ claims of substan ...more |
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| Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in females in Australia. It is also the leading cause of cancer death in females. It is estimated that 13,261 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia this year.
Links have been fo ...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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| 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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| Today, one finds no support for spanking in the scientific literature. This opinion, shared by mental health and child development experts, and other professionals in related fields, has been evolving for many decades and its beginnings can be found centu ...more |
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| We can assume that most estimates of the incidence of child sexual abuse are under-estimates. Even large population surveys cannot provide accurate estimates of the extent of child sexual abuse in Australia. This is partly because many victims feel unable ...more |
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| Birth groups all over the country arecampaigning for reform of Australia’s birth care services. With the crisis in current care systems, the National Maternity Action Plan helps us all sing the same song towards change. We are on the threshold of a rare o ...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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| An unpublished study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on a “measles susceptible” (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn't been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received ...more |
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| In order to understand the relevance of the Tribe in the 21st Century it first has to be put into a personal context. Throughout history, people have lived together in extended families or Tribes. Tribes were able to meet the ‘hierarchy of human needs’ in ...more |
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| Similarly to the natural birth movement, the natural death movement has arisen by a sense of powerlessness and choicelessness that people feel about how their important life choices are being subverted by a society bent on homogenising life in an attempt ...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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| Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questions the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and oursel ...more |
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| Death and birth have always been connected. In India, the caste that attends births also attends deaths. In the West, people are wanting to take back control of their deaths in the same way they are wresting back control of their births from the establish ...more |
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| This important article concerning a radical federal government intervention in Aboriginal communities—sparked by national outrage at alleged endemic child sexual abuse—first featured in the Australian Medical Journal in December 07. New Prime Minister Kev ...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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| I was asked to offer some observations on the problems facing men in contemporary Australian society. Anyone who has done any reading in the area or been involved with a men’s group will know that men are in trouble. Authors such as Steve Biddulph have li ...more |
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| Mothers today are made to think that our only real social contribution is done through the workforce. Could it be that the opposition of motherhood to serious work and thought, the supposed contradiction between art and life, is wrong?
When my second c ...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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