The Environment
The following are excerpts taken from articles about The Environment.
Mud, Sweat and Cheers
Former Kindred Spirit staffer Nicola Cameron left the UK for a new life in New Zealand with her partner and a baby on the way. She sends a postcard home about the challenges she has faced living near a town nestling amongst the sub-tropical greenery of the mountains and surrounded by 100 beaches, learning to live the dream in the land of the long white cloud. Moving to New Zealand hasn’t been without its trials and tribulations. I came here because of my Kiwi partner who happened to turn up at my front door in the…
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Consumption - The global killer blighting the planet
Janet Thornton explains the importance of keeping our heads at a time when all those with power appear to be hell-bent on keeping us under. The need to wean ourselves off our drug-fed reality in order to save our sanity and our home is paramount. The results of a study released earlier this year showed high levels of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic organisms in Lake Mead, several miles downstream from a Las Vegas water treatment plant. The two most prominent drugs found in the tissues of fish to phytoplankton were…
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Consumption - The global killer blighting the planet
Most of what we buy is not necessary for us to live comfortable lives, but as prosperity increases so do our expectations. Our cravings are fuelled by clever advertising that beguiles us and generates gaps in our lives. But in all this we are blinded to the strain our continual cravings are putting on us, on people living in the developing world and on the earth. Juliet Ash spells it out in black and white to ensure we get out of the red and back into the green. In the UK we live as if there are a couple of planets going…
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Pick of the Crops - www.lucypringle.co.uk
Whether one sees them as otherworldly signs, manmade works of art or an unexplained natural phenomenon, crop circles never cease to amaze and captivate people’s curiosity. Even as recently as June of this year when the ‘Pi’ crop appeared in Wiltshire it had the attention of the national press. Lucy Pringle is the custodian of the most comprehensive database on the phenomenon and we invited her to guide us through her personal experience of these amazing creations to look at some possible answers to their creation and their purpose. The crop circle is a…
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Soul Connections in the Sea
Once we feared them as demons. We called them Delphinus orca – literally the ‘demon’ dolphin. Vilified by Time magazine as a ‘savage sea cannibal’, the orca, more commonly known as the killer whale, is forcing us to re-think our less than flattering definition. Cetacean researcher, psychic and astrologer Helen Kaye Watts explains why this amazing mammal should be recognized for its similarities to humankind rather than an oceanic force of streamlined destruction. In the sea it is the orca, Orcinus orca, who is our counterpart, and not as many…
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Being Happier than God - Neale Donald Walsch
Best-selling author and visionary Neale Donald Walsch talks to spiritual life coach Mike Brown, and shares his wisdom, his inspirations and his secret to living a life of ease Neale, what is your personal mission in life? NDW I’d like to change the world’s mind about God, and I’ll tell you why. We are in a terrible state of confusion about God – we have something like 243 known religions. We have not just one or two, but dozens of Holy Scriptures. And we just aren’t clear at all about who we are in relationship to God. God is what God wants.…
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Riding High with Rapanui
Through time immemorial, it has been the habit of the older generation to disapprove of the younger generation. Among one of the most common gripes that current oldieslevel at youngsters is that they are too materialistic and are not as motivated or as passionate about political or world issues as we were in our day. Claire Gillman has come across a pair of young men who are about to make us old grumpies eat our words. The couple in question are two brothers from the Isle of Wight, Rob and Mart Drake-Knight, and their brain-child is Rapanui Clothing, an organic and sustainable clothing…
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The Alchemist
An icon of popular culture and still working at the musical frontiers, Peter Gabriel continues to have the Midas touch wherever he lays his hands. Founder of the WOMAD music festivals,enthusiastic supporter of humanitarian projects and with a growing family to bring up, he is the most earthly of men. Kate Osborne uncovers a vibrant, creative and compassionate soul. Why is Kindred Spirit devoting a feature to a hugely successful commercial talent from the music industry, you may ask. Well, if this helps to awaken wisdom in those seeking enlightenment, so much the better. The main reason why…
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Sun Screen
Nicola Flanagan joins Jerry Morgan, proprietor of the Groovy Movie Picture House, to celebrate 10 years of delivering an eco-friendly, eco-conscious cinematic experience
The excited chatter softens to a low murmur. The lights go down and the screen lights up, bringing the magic of the silver screen to life. This is not the local Odeon. This is the Groovy Movie Picture House, the world’s first mobile solar powered cinema. We are eating cake not popcorn, drinking tea not soda, and we lounge on coconut mats. In the 10 years since its birth, the GMPH has become a much loved feature of…
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The Natural Mind
Our environment is being rapidly destroyed. We are experiencing a widespread, global crisis of unprecedented proportions: climate disruption, global warming, and vanishing rainforests, along with their precious biodiversity. We are now in the midst of the sixth major species extinction since life began on our planet. Through science and engineering, our civilization has developed awesome technologies of destruction (some intentional, some not). Potent nuclear and biological weapons threaten the survival of our species, and much of the rest of Nature. People are alienated from Nature. To…
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A Climate for Co-operation
Can we really lessen the effects of climate change if we remain a set of self-interested states working in isolation or is global cooperation the only solution for a stable climate? Cheryl Jenkins explores the answers…
As I was taking the recycling out this morning it struck me that there are so many factors that influence to what degree our actions will reduce the warming that is predicted by climate experts – how do we know how much of a difference we’re actually making? We carry on about our disparate lives putting faith in the governments of the world to set the…
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Ringing The Changes
If we were asked to replace our electronic goods every year we would be horrified but we make an exception for our mobile phone. Designed to last ten years, they are changed every 18 months creating vast un-recycled waste, say Claire Gillman. As a result of our thirst for frequent mobile upgrades, out-of-fashion handsets are thrown away at a rate of 100 million a year in Europe alone. With less than 20% being recycled, mobiles are becoming a significant source of un-recycled waste. In January 2007 new European-wide regulations regarding the disposal of waste electrical and electronic…
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Living Lightly on the Earth....
When Dawn Eagle Woman brings her transformational healing work to the UK she leaves behind a major eco building project. Following a spirit-guided endeavour to live in harmony with nature, in accordance with Native American tradition, Dawn Eagle and her husband Brian White are building a house from recycled materials, powered only by nature, in her native Wyoming, high in the mountains between Laramie and Cheyenne. A gifted healer, drawing on her own deep spiritual experience, from shamanic healing to psychoanalytic theory, to weave a…
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