Reduce your impact on earth
Avoiding meat and dairy While meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem
This BBC article describes the problem of plastic pollution:-
Hawthorn tree uses for health
This video will tell you all about hawthorn and how to use its haws and leaves for health:- Courtesy of http://www.herbshealing.com. Recorded at Hands On Herbal Medicine Workshop at Wise Woman Center, Woodstock, New York. Hawthorn tree. Hawthorn tincture is … Continued
Smog-free cities
Daan Roosegaarde is creating smog-free towers, which concentrate pollution into carbon and generate clean air, and jewellery made from the carbon. You can buy rings from his organization made from polluted air. (The pollution in Chinese cities is equivalent to … Continued
Food waste? Not in Denmark
Learn from Selina Juul, who came from Russia to Denmark and has introduced simple solutions to reduce food waste there by staggering amounts: 25% in five years. Supermarkets can help, and so can consumers. So become a one-person waste reducer!
Probable carcinogen in 30% of all commercial bread
The Soil Association warns that up to 30% of UK bread tested contained glyphosate, the main ingredient in most commercial weedkillers. Only certified organic bread can guarantee it does not contain glyphosate. Glyphosate is the most widely sold weedkiller in the … Continued
Community farming
Community supported agriculture, or CSA as it is called, is practised in many places:- What is happening in your area?
Healing with songs and plants
Read about the Wachiperi tradition from the Andes.