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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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| 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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| There is little doubt that our kids have a greater susceptibility to toxic chemicals. Everyday we expose our children to hundreds of different chemicals in an array of household products and yet remain puzzled as to why they get sick. ...more |
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| The diet eaten by the average Australian is killing the planet. The wholesale destruction of our oceans and the clearing of rainforests and many other precious habitats currently under threat is inextricably linked ...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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| 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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| 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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| One of the great logjams in the movement towards a sustainable future is the seeming conflict between the growth economy and the environment, and greenies are painted as anti-economy, anti-jobs etc. The challenge is however, is to have intelligent growth. ...more |
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| the nuclear family, as I define it, is the basic father, mother and 2.5 kids model. It’s based on an insular mindset, whereby community and larger extended family have very little to do with the day to day existence of a family’s members. The nuclear fami ...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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Worldwide, political and religious leaders are using women, how they dress, what their freedoms look like, as a battleground to fight their cultural and religious battles. Extremists on both sides are using women as they seek to 'protect' them and their h ...more |
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| The whole world celebrated when Obama won the US Presidential race. His victory was our victory, the victory of hope, of the desire to live our dreams. In this essay, Mark Alok O'Brien brings this victory 'back in', and shows a way to make this victory me ...more |
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| So now the world breathes a sigh of relief - a ray of hope has come in the form of Barak Obama. is it enough that he has been elected, or is this, as he said in his victory speech, just a chance we have of making things right?
Meeting Uncle Bob Randall c ...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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| The Intelligence of the Heart. Last month I attended a summit hosted by the aTLC (Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children - www.atlc.org ) in California and had the opportunity to spend time with and interview Joseph Chilton Pierce. ...more |
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