Happy autumnal equinox!

Happy International Day Of Peace!

I think they go really well together. Gratitude for the abundance of the year, a point of astronomical balance, and hope for abundance and safety as we move into the dark half of the year seems like an excellent moment to ask Who will you make peace with today? Seems to me that if we all ( Read more... )

Check out the documentary Aluna, about the isolated Columbian tribe theKogi, who wish us to know that our superficial understanding of the world is leading us to deeply damage the Earth and all life:

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Nuclear weapons: an accident waiting to happen

In July 1956, a plane crashed in Suffolk, nearly detonating an atomic bomb. In January 1987, an RAF truck carrying hydrogen bombs skidded off a road in Wiltshire. Other near-misses remain top secret. Who is really at risk from Britain's nuclear weapons?

• Eric Schlosser

• The Guardian,
  Saturday 14 September ( Read more... )

Let this interview with a marine conservationist from the European organisation The Black Fish first terrify you at the scale of the destruction of marine life (we may be facing fish-free oceans in a generation if we only continue to consume at the current rate), the lack of interest in saving our species' life-support system, and the fact that ( Read more... )

Just read something that horrifies me:

Albert Speer, who was tried at Nuremberg for his senior role in the Nazi administration, including using forced labour in his armaments factories, got 20 years in Spandau prison.

Bradley Manning, who refused to cover up the illegal abuse and torture of civilians, just got 35 years and a dishonourable ( Read more... )

Burka Avenger: Pakistan's cartoon superhero battling for girls' education

The first animated TV series produced in Pakistan offers a positive role model to counter Taliban opposition to girls'

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Link to video: Burka Avenger: the Pakistani cartoon challenging the Taliban on girls' education
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Name: Burka Avenger.

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A combination of a wide variety of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides killing off the bees? Who'd have thunk?

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

By Todd Woody @ greenwombat 12 hours ago


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AICR, the China Study, and Forks Over Knives

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I'm thinking that this is something well worth watching and sharing. You can buy the dvds or download it for free.

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The WHO - and many other medical organisations - have been warning that the livestock industry's stranglehold on politics has led to massive under-regulation of the use of antibiotics. Most of the antibiotics used in the US are used as a preventive measure by livestock farmers, because it's only by pre-emptively medicating animals that you can keep ( Read more... )