Issue 14

“Live simply, so that others can simply live…”

An update on the state of GMOs in South Africa.

The controversial De Hoop Dam is seducing the people of the region with the promise of jobs and water. If they succumb, the legacy they will leave their great-grandchildren is likely to be a denuded landscape, ravaged by toxic waste.

South Africa’s first free rural eco-business school for entrepreneurs has been launched.

Muizenberg’s first cob house has almost been completed. Cob is one of the natural building techniques — like adobe bricks, rammed earth, sandbag structures and straw bale — presently used in South Africa. All of them use natural materials (sand, clay, straw) to create solid structures that breathe

If South Africa is to step back from the brink of atomic war and nuclear destruction, we must embrace the global struggles of peoples such as the Navajo.

A vegetarian menu is a powerful and pleasurable way to achieve good health.

Environmentalists are overlooking the fact that vegetarianism is the most effective tool to fight climate change in our lifetimes. Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history.

We see pictures of whole grains, prime cuts of meat and human grade vegetables on the bag, and we assume there’s some chef in a pet food kitchen cooking up the best for our loved ones. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Most of what makes up dog and cat food comes from the rendering plant.

There are many quantifiable scientific indicators proving that the Earth and the Solar System are going through changes which have never previously occurred in recorded human history.

In most major long-term studies, lowering cholesterol has done more harm than good.