Book review Below you will find Part 2 of the review of Why You Don’t Need Meat by Peter Cox. These are some snippets: “The 1981 report by Richard Doll and Richard Peto found that diet was responsible for 35% of all cancer deaths, but the food industry doesn’t necessarily want us to change.” …
THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS 2006 PART I The Club of Budapest, founded in 1993 by Ervin Laszlo, is an informed association of globally, as well as locally, active opinion leaders in various fields of art, science, religion, and culture, dedicated to the evolution of our values, ethics, and …
IN PRAISE OF SLOW HOW A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT IS CHALLENGING THE CULT OF SPEED CARL HONORE ORION 2004 There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi Introduction: The Age of Rage People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would …
Book Review Below you will find Part 8 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Adaptation is necessary because climate change is already happening, and the long lag times in the climate system make further climate change, and especially sea-level rise, inevitable.” “Because …
MOTHER TERESA: HER PEOPLE & HER WORK DESMOND DOIG COLLINS FOUNT PAPERBACK 1976 PART III Chapter 4: The First Sisters: Poverty their Dowry My earliest recollection of Mother Teresa is her attending to lepers in the slums of Howrah, a Calcutta suburb, that is in fact a twin city across the river Hooghly. If …
Book review Leo Hickman in A Good Life: The Guide to Ethical Living points out that: “Ethical living means taking personal responsibility; considering ‘sustainability’ of everything you do; making sure that your actions do not have a negative influence on you or the wider world; reducing one’s demand for resources; consuming a fairer and …
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1999 PART II Chapter 3: … And the walls came Tumbling Down Chapter 4: Microchip Immune Deficiency Chapter 5: The Golden Straitjacket Chapter 6: The Electronic Herd PART TWO: PLUGGING INTO THE SYSTEM Chapter 7: DOScapital 6.0 Chapter 8: Globalution Chapter …
Book review Leo Hickman in A Good Life: The Guide to Ethical Living points out that: “Ethical living means taking personal responsibility; considering ‘sustainability’ of everything you do; making sure that your actions do not have a negative influence on you or the wider world; reducing one’s demand for resources; consuming a fairer and more …
Book Review Below you will find Part 7 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Studies of past episodes of rapid climate change such as the Younger Dryas event deserve special attention. There is much evidence to suggest that past climatic fluctuations have not …
Book review Joana Blythman, Britain’s leading investigative food journalist tells us in The Food We Eat: The Book You Cannot Afford to Ignore that “There are 3,000 or so genetically altered or ‘transgenic’ foods that have to date been tested worldwide. Unlike traditional breeding, genetic engineering permits scientists to move genetic material – DNA – …
