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The new gift of Christmas

December 20, 2016 Leave a Comment

Every year I write a Green Christmas story. About green shopping, green tree decorations and greener holidays. Poor planet. Up goes resource extraction, up goes the mounds of waste, up goes water consumption, up goes everyone’s footprint – people driving and flying all over the place. Over-spending, over-eating, over-drinking. It’s this über mentality that got us into … [Read more...]

Award-winning soil documentary to have gala screening at Labia

July 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

An exclusive gala screening of award-winning documentary Symphony of the Soil is being hosted by the Labia Theatre, Cape Town at 6.30 pm on Sunday 14 August to raise funds for Soil for Life. Join dedicated eco-warrior and MC Nik Rabinowitz for an entertaining ‘green’ evening and help change the world one garden at a time. US based film-maker Deborah Koons Garcia has … [Read more...]

Moving the world from sustainability to regenerative design

April 30, 2016 Leave a Comment

Communication is the tool we use to navigate change in this perishable, impermanent world. We talk about what’s happening and what’s coming. We use words to rally and activate citizens; to inform and educate people; to alleviate or aggravate fears, depending on our intentions. Humans use language to make sense of things — even those things that are happening at a scale beyond … [Read more...]

Rekindling our sacred connection with the soil

March 21, 2016 Leave a Comment

We are at the cusp of empires falling and worlds colliding. While this may be a bold statement. In the seeming chaos of collapsing economies, unprecedented and endless wars, unpredictable weather patterns and huge animal die-offs, our most appropriate response appears to be some sort of foundational re-structuring. We find ourselves at the foundations of a new reality, a New … [Read more...]

New study confirms Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun

June 20, 2015 Leave a Comment

We are currently witnessing the start of a mass extinction event the likes of which have not been seen on Earth for at least 65 million years. This is the alarming finding of a new study published in the journal Science Advances. The research was designed to determine how human actions over the past 500 years have affected the extinction rates of vertebrates: mammals, fish, … [Read more...]

Al Gore’s climate observing spacecraft gears up for launch

January 18, 2015 Leave a Comment

After nearly 14 years in limbo, an Earth-monitoring spacecraft built by NASA is finally set to fly. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), scheduled to launch as soon as January 29, will constantly observe Earth’s sunlit side from a distance of 1.5 million kilometres. It will track daily weather patterns and seasonal vegetation changes, monitor atmospheric pollution … [Read more...]

Natural Building part 2: Understanding & testing different earths

August 1, 2014 Leave a Comment

One of the challenges of working with earth is that no two sites are the same. The recipes one learns on one site may not work on another, because the earths found there are composed differently. Most earth building relies on a mix of sand and clay, which may be present in a single earth or need to be blended together. Sand has many faces Sand has a particular particle … [Read more...]

Order Mother Earth Book

April 24, 2014 Leave a Comment

Here is a loving tribute to Mother Earth and a call to action for children, their parents and grandparents. "What if our religion was each other If our practice was our life If prayer, our words What if the temple was the Earth If forests were our church If holy water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean What if meditation was our relationships If the teacher was life If … [Read more...]

Earth Overshoot Day: we are now in ecological deficit

August 27, 2013 Leave a Comment

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Last week we reached Earth Overshoot day, and in a blog post for LiveScience.com, World Wildlife Fund chief scientist John Hoekstra explains just how big we're really living: "August 20, 2013 marked Earth Overshoot day - the estimated date when the people on Earth have used up the planet's annual supply of renewable natural resources and reached its carbon-absorbing … [Read more...]

Earth: What will it look like after climate change?

May 6, 2013 Leave a Comment

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Dry, barren landscapes stretched out for miles. Animal skeletons scattered everywhere. Not a tree or plant to be seen. Damaged and dilapidated houses and buildings. Extreme weather conditions exacerbating these scenes. Is this a melodramatic view shared by the paranoid of what might happen after climate change? Or is this the reality of what awaits our children and … [Read more...]

‘Regenerative Cities’ hopes to halt climate change

November 28, 2012 Leave a Comment

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As the World Bank strongly warns of the devastating effects of a four-degree temperature rise and hopes for a ground-breaking outcome of the UN Climate Conference in Qatar are low, the World Future Council concluded its 6th Annual General Meeting with a renewed commitment to work with policy makers worldwide to preserve a healthy planet for future generations. "A quick … [Read more...]

Asteroid Mining our way to intergalactic colonisation

October 22, 2012 Leave a Comment

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As our planet runs out of minerals and resources to support our even expanding need for development, is asteroid-mining a possible and viable option in the foreseeable future? Asteroid mining may sound like a science fiction term and it has had some pretty awful notions associated with it. Our imagination and history of the past often makes us picture certain greedy and … [Read more...]

All of life is infused with spirit

June 25, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Custodians of Sacred Sites from four African countries are working together to revive tribal traditions and protect their sacred sites and territories. They have released a statement of Common African Customary Laws to protect these sacred places and bring their message to an increasingly detached modern world. The Nanyuki Custodian Meeting in Kenya has drawn up a statement … [Read more...]

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