Biophile

Issue 16

Electrical Sensitivity

I have worked for over 35 years as a nursing sister, midwife, practise nurse, in a war in the Middle…

Issue 16 Editorial

“The mind is a house of questions, and the heart is a library of answers” We occasionally get letters from…

How to be a Greener Cloth Nappy User

There has been a lot of talk about cloth nappies lately and I have heard many people refer to some…

Sheet Mulch Gardening: build your soil the ‘no work’ way

Sheet mulching (or composting) is the simplest, and least labour intensive, method of building the fertility of most soil types…

A touch of madness… touched by modernity

This tiny little village, my home-town, now boasts more than ten buses plying through the only dusty main road. The…

Auroville: a Blueprint for Living

Is there really a place on earth where human beings from all nations and ways of life, have come together…

The Hidden Truth About Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs (Part Two)

Statin drugs are the most widely sold prescription medicine in history: in 2004, Pfizer’s block-buster drug, Lipitor, became the first…

ADHD: an illness of generations

ADD children — also called Indigo children — are very sensitive to environmental and electrical pollution, noise and poor nutrition.…

Food from Trees: the Waterberry

Our indigenous trees are a good source of food; they’re both beautiful, and bountiful. Wild fruits have an exceptionally high…

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…