Climate, Health and Sustainability
Al Gore's Nobel Prize Acceptance speech (Click here for transcript)
An Inconvenient Truth
The Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth brings home with inescapable truth the ultimate horror humanity will face if global warning goes unchecked. >>>more
George Monbiot's List
from his latest book 'Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning'
www.monbiot.com
George Monbiot, science columnist for the Guardian (UK), has become a voice of reason regarding climate change, which he calls "not just a moral question: it is the moral question of the 21st century." Following reports that preventing climate change will be much cheaper than dealing with symptoms of climate change, Monbiot has come up with a ten-point plan to reduce greenhouse gas production by 90 percent by 2030 - with most of the reductions taking place early rather than late. >>>more
Tim Flannery's List
11 Realistic Ways You Can Help Reduce Global Warming
from his latest book, 'The Weather Makers'
www.theweathermakers.com/
As a field zoologist Tim Flannery has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals. His pioneering work in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough to put him in the league of the world’s great explorers and the writer Redmond O’Hanlon to remark, “He’s discovered more new species than Charles Darwin.">>>more
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Advice on achieving and maintaining good health
The Weston A. Price Foundation was founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets.
Dr. Price's research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats. >>>more
Permaculture
The Permaculture Institute is a non-profit educational trust. Founded in 1978 by Academician Bill Mollison, it was based in Stanley Tasmania for ten years. In 1988 the Institute moved to the sub tropics of Northern N.S.W. returning to Tasmania in 1998. >>>more
Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) is a rural landscape management technique developed by Australian grazier and race horse breeder Peter Andrews, aimed at restoring natural water cycles that allow the land to flourish despite drought conditions. >>>more
Bio-Dynamic or BD Agriculture
Land degradation can be reversed by activating and developing the life of soil structure and plants 'biologically-dynamically' through production of humus in the soil. Over the last seventy years, agricultural practitioners around the world have contributed vast knowledge to the practice known as Bio-Dynamic Agriculture. Bio-Dynamics recognizes that soil can be alive, and this vitality supports and affects the quality and health of the plants that grow in it. The life of the plant is bound up with the life of the soil. Plants respond to influences from the depths of the earth to light from the sun, moon, planets and stars. >>>more
The Right to Water: The Campaign for a United Nations Treaty
Ever since the powerful players of the World Water Council - the World Bank, the big water corporations, and the aid agencies and water ministries of First World countries - declared that water is not a human right, but rather a human need best served by private investors, the issue of the human right to water has become central to the international struggle for the control of water. The human right to water was rejected at both the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000 and at the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto in 2003, even though the majority of civil society groups attending these events were strongly in favour. >>>more
Trade Secrets: Bill Moyers' Report
The chemical revolution of the past 50 years has altered nearly every aspect of our lives. Many of the products we rely upon every day – from plastic bags to computers – would not exist without synthetic chemicals. Most of us believe the chemicals in consumer products have been tested and approved by some government agency. In fact, until they are proven harmful, most chemicals are presumed safe. In this special investigation, Bill Moyers reveals secrets the chemical industry has kept hidden for almost fifty years. >>>more
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