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FANCY A DRINK? MAKE SURE ITS NOT BOTTLED WATER.
Millions of people in the UK spend millions of pounds on bottled water every year. And we’re being sold a scam… so let’s just clear something up; By opting for tap water over bottles you can help the ENVIRONMENT, YOUR POCKET and YOUR HEALTH! Now, if all this is true then why is bottled water such a successful industry? It doesn’t [...]
MAKE THIS YEAR YOUR BEST YEAR YET
By Sarah Alexander Your Intuition can help you achieve what you want. Do you want to move house, change careers or improve your love life? If so, learn how to use your intuition and let it guide you in all that you do. Your intuition works in parallel to the Reticular Activating System in your brain that draws your attention to those [...]
GETTING RELATIONSHIPS WRONG HURTS
Getting relationships wrong hurts - and when it’s our relationship with the world we live in it hurts more than just us. Everything we do affects our world. Smile, don’t smile. Praise, criticise. Vote, stay at home. Buy fair trade, buy the cheapest. Think profit, think it through. Personal or planet-wide, decisions and actions [...]
HAPPINESS STARTS AT WORK
So we’ve all heard the expression ‘happiness starts at home’. However, for a lot of people most of their waking lives are actually spent outside the home and in the office. So why then, don’t we make as much effort to improve our lives, and environmental efforts at work? I know many people who spend hours cooking delicious organic [...]
ARMOURED TANKS, AK47s, CUPS OF TEA AND TEARS
Did Radovan Karadzic have a deal with the Americans? I hope not. I’ve seen, first hand, the devastation of war in the former Yugoslavia. I remember standing in what had once been a thriving ski resort in the mountains of Bosnia. Only a few years before this area had been full of tourists. Now the hotel was a burnt wreck, the ground at my feet [...]
CHAMPAGNE AND SABRES
I am standing in a cellar surrounded by over 20,000 bottles of carefully chosen wine. I have a bottle of Moet et Chandon Imperial in my left hand and a large knife in my right hand. Slowly I run the blade up and down the neck of the bottle listening to the sound of metal against glass. Then with a quick flick of the wrist the blade [...]
PUSHERS OF THE ‘DOUBT’ DRUG
Don't call them Climate Deniers. They’re really 'Pushers' of a Drug called 'Doubt'. I had a nightmare about deniers. Truth deniers, and how honest people can get drawn to them. My field of speciality is a big muddy field: humankind’s collective denial (by their actions) that there's any real climate problem. In this muddy field it’s [...]
FALLING IN LOVE WITH AN INCINERATOR
Is it possible to build something that is both highly functional & breathtakingly beautiful? Is it possible to turn an incinerator into a work of art? Is it possible to make the disposal of a city's waste a must see stop on the tourist trail? The answer to all of these is YES. And it’s been done – in Vienna. The incinerator [...]
HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED AFTER REDUNDANCY
We tend to think of our job primarily as a source income so if we are made redundant then it is easy to surmise that money is the only thing we are missing out on. However the daily routine of going to work also provides our life with other important ingredients such as discipline and human contact. When these factors are removed because a job is [...]
DON’T SAVE THE PLANET – SAVE YOURSELF!
Saving the planet is not really about stopping Planet Earth from dying, exploding or somehow disappearing. It’s about saving our own skins. Pretty much whatever we do Planet Earth will still be here – it’s us (and many other life forms) that are the ones under threat. So here are three quick and easy eco top tips… 1) Go Veggie. 25 [...]
