Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health
By Felicity Lawrence
This book highlights the downside of food production.
According to the author: "Modern food production involves processes that have little care for real nutrition...are corrosive of society and depend on extravagant use of natural resources, from water to oil to land, which are running out."
Her suggestions for eating more healthily and improve the situation are to choose to shop and eat "organically, more locally, more seasonally, more directly from producers and independent retailers, more Fairtrade, less meat and animal produce, more wholegrains, pulses, fresh fruits and vegetables, fewer highly processed foods.. nothing highly packaged."
(Published by Penguin, price £8.99)
Monday, 23 June 2008
Monday, 9 June 2008
Future of the internet - preserving freedom of access
Internet providers around the globe are reported to be secretly in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium.
Multinationals who already use big budgets to force their content into other media outlets want to approach the internet in the same way to gain monopoly and control.
This would mean that smaller websites and services would gradually disappear and be forced out of existence.
It would also mean the end to free access of the internet - and all its information -as subscribers would have to pay for "packages" limited to a specific number of sites, with further subscriptions required for more sites. The plan is to put this in place some time in 2012.
This is currently going on behind the scenes because those in charge don't want it to come to the attention of the general public and have people speaking out against it.
The more awareness there is, the more difficult it will be for internet providers to make this switch.
We need to be vigilant about any potential threat to freedom of acces to the internet. The first step is to use the power of the net to spread the word and raise awareness.
Multinationals who already use big budgets to force their content into other media outlets want to approach the internet in the same way to gain monopoly and control.
This would mean that smaller websites and services would gradually disappear and be forced out of existence.
It would also mean the end to free access of the internet - and all its information -as subscribers would have to pay for "packages" limited to a specific number of sites, with further subscriptions required for more sites. The plan is to put this in place some time in 2012.
This is currently going on behind the scenes because those in charge don't want it to come to the attention of the general public and have people speaking out against it.
The more awareness there is, the more difficult it will be for internet providers to make this switch.
We need to be vigilant about any potential threat to freedom of acces to the internet. The first step is to use the power of the net to spread the word and raise awareness.
Friday, 6 June 2008
Eden event
Eden event
taking place over the Summer Solstice, 21-22nd June.
See the link below for more detailed information.
http://thegatheringofone.com/content1.asp?cat=2&id=2
taking place over the Summer Solstice, 21-22nd June.
See the link below for more detailed information.
http://thegatheringofone.com/content1.asp?cat=2&id=2
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