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Animal lives matter — so let’s stop eating them!

Non-human animals have many of the same feelings we do. They experience contagious joy and the deepest of grief, they…

Solar cooking is for us!

The sun is a solution. 98% of light striking black is absorbed. Light is energy, not heat. Once absorbed it…

Keeping you in the raw

In this issue, we’re going to tell you how to fix your car! Fix your car? And then we’re going…

Fuel for thought

The diesel engine was intended to run on peanut oil—allowing farmers to grow their own fuel and small craftsmen and…

Climate protest halts coal train

About 30 climate campaigners have halted a train taking coal to one of Europe’s biggest power stations in North Yorkshire.…

The 3 Rs in simple steps

First: reduce. This critical first step has been overshadowed by a focus on recycling. Simplify your life as much as…

Forbidden Cures: Part One

There are a number of alternative healing therapies that work so well and cost so little (compared to conventional treatment),…

The healing power of raw food

Our lives turned upside down one morning in 1987 when our 12-year-old daughter, Emily, displayed flu symptoms. But this was…

The Hidden Truth about Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs (Part One)

Ever since CHD (coronary heart disease) moved into first place as a major killer in the West, scientists have once…

No ice at the North Pole?

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the…