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R E F L E C T I O N S & O B S E R V A T I O N S
Oil – Spill not The Blue

a drop Economy
Losing
our
direction
Afghanistan’s
soft spoken
rebel
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Losing our direction
Oil – spill
not a drop
T The cover of August issue shows oil in a small container
being very well
managed by a person with a steady hand who has not let it spill
Then I think of BP and the calamity which is occurring off the coast of
America
causing much heartache and anguish
The lives of wildlife and humans have been ruined or markedly changed

Afghanistan’s softspoken
rebel
forever When I see the pictures of birds weighed down

unable to fly
covered
in oil or the fishing fleets idle in the ports I know that enough is enough For BP
that is The demigod status of this corporation is but one example of running
riot to exploit and gain advantage from the world’s resources
Giving Poetry Away
They are not the only ones
of course The rort that goes on everyday chopping
down forests
ravaging the high seas for fish or exploiting workers in third world
countries are also signs of a world needing a breathing space A planet being Vegetable tour guide
stripped bear of resources for the good of shareholders in some of the world’s
largest companies The pelicans and the workers in China are on the same path
They have no place to advance to
but will move on when they are no longer
needed
BP has been on a carousel
having a comfortable ride on the horse
going
round and round at a leisurely pace dreaming of the profits to come and
of
course
working out where to further invest the monies they make out of oil
from their oil fields Adapting to climate change
BP is only obvious because they are the ones who have caused this problem
It is bigger than Watergate; it cannot be covered up so easily
This incident is a wakeup call It further highlights the demand placed on
the planet for resources It shows that natural resources are vulnerable and
everywhere you look someone or some company is doing the best they can to
take them
to make some money
In the end the responsibility placed on BP may well see it go under There is The Rational Optimist
a massive amount of responsibility to be owned up to and an extremely large
debt to be paid
But I question whether life around the southern states of America will ever
be the same again
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Losing our direction

W Way down at the end of the world is New Zealand
a
country that needs to find ways to remain a viable
first
world place to live A country who’s light shines for
everyone to see
who wants an image of ‘being green’
environmentally friendly and the home of the All Blacks
New Zealand has fine

wines
great scenery and a
way of life which is seen as
approach to people instead
of government expecting
everyone to go along with
settled and without the changes because they
(fortunately) traumas say so
which occur just about
The whole GST system
everywhere else Think civil
needs urgent consideration
war
tsunamis
oil spills
– an overhaul and the extra

massive financial upheaval
five percent increase from
(Greece and Spain) and a
October is enough to send
change of government
people over the wall – or
every other year in Japan
over the Tasman
take your
The truth is actually pick!
more brutal than we think
Not only healthy foods
New Zealand is a country GST on the flag? You can count on it.
need GST taken off them
which is just about too
but electricity
fuel and
expensive to live in The Whangarei These growers Will they say the
medical supplies as well
National government – were unable to sell to grower is not being treated
Think the elderly
think the
well they are currently the supermarkets – the large fairly and the consumer is
poor
think the middle class
party in power – is currently chains – because they were being treated shabbily? No
and tell them that New
embarking on reforms being offered too little in they won’t because all of
Zealand is a caring place in
which make the average return for the labour and this too hard stuff scares
which to live!
New Zealander poorer in basically being ripped off them Means an effort will
the pocket The future of a country The supermarket chains – need to be made to look
which taxes its people into you know who they are – after the citizens and – wait
These reforms include oblivion is
to put it mildly
the Environmental Trading offered these growers no for it –less money for the
bleak Other creative choice – they could either government coffers
Scheme (ETS) tax and an measures need to be
increase in the Goods and close up shop or find another And ETS How do we
considered and if finances way of selling their goods
Service Tax (GST due to are such a big issue with reconcile this one? New
become law on October government (we’ll take the And to their credit
they Zealand emits of the
money anyway we can) creatively put steps in place planet’s emissions Sure
It is time for Kiwis to

they need to put in – and to make this happen there needs to be some
stop the moaning about
think laterally – as to how responsibility taken to
GST and do something Back to government
a country with a population make the world a more
about it A proposed Bill by They know the way the
of just over four million is environmentally pleasing
the Maori Party suggesting market is for growers;
expected to cover their place to live in
no GST on healthy foods is members of parliament
commendable In Australia costs
maintaining central may well have seen the But let’s get this right
and Great Britain a GST tax government systems and program and given credit ETS has come along and
does not apply to all that putting money in the back for the efforts these prices are beginning to rise
the consumer buys pocket of parliamentarians growers have made to across a whole range of
Think weekly salaries remain viable But will they products and services New
But government can
Recently
Country do anything to bring about Zealanders are not stupid
not consider this proposed

Calendar
a weekend rural change? Will they take on but they are apathetic This
Bill because – wait for it – it
focused television program
the supermarket chains and tax is one they need to
is too much work Which
showed how growers in the hold an enquiry into the lot question more This
really means reduced
north of the country grew of the grower and – come country has the population
revenue will come our way!
produce and sold it to the to think of it – the lot of the of Victoria
an Australian
We need a more caring Saturday market in consumer? state
emits little
is taxed
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➼ highly
stress
and there is so much
amongst its
What it will take is a
change of attitude An
Because The Mirror is
widely read around the
better way of living?
If you are reading this
population that residents approach to a sense of fair world
I welcome feedback article in New Zealand and
continue to flock overseas play so that visitor and local as to how these issues are have suggestions as to a
to find greener pastures alike are better off
getting tackled in your country fairer more equitable way
The first question is a fair go How does your country take of life please write to me
“Why has the ETS bill been financial pressure off the with them
GST
ETS and visitor
passed as law”? Why was elderly? Is their assistance
treatment are symptoms Equally
if you are
there such urgency to push for them in meeting their
of a society which is losing reading this article in New
it through the house heating costs?
its direction And we Zealand and believe I am
especially when such haven’t even touched on Is your food taxed? If being too harsh I will be
countries as Australia have manufacturing and the so
does your country delighted to hear from you
not done the same thing future of work for young invest some of it into Trusts Together we can bring
and believe there are issues and old or community groups for a about change❙
to be sorted out before it
becomes law over there?
It was passed quickly
because it is a revenue
earner Its’ as simple as that
Wait
there’s more
Peter Bills
a visiting British
writer said recently in an
article in The New Zealand
Herald – a daily newspaper
– that New Zealand rips
visitors off With the
impending Rugby World
Cup in
Mr Bills sees a
whole range of tourism
costs going through the
roof – think accommod
ation
wine – and thous
ands of visitors paying
though the nose
He is right For years
New Zealand has con
sidered the green image
enough to entice visitors
Someone from London
with no backyard and
rubbish on the footpath will
happily sit in a plane for
hours just to see a tree Or
someone from an outback
country – think Australia –
will fly in to see the
Marlborough Sounds and
be expected to pay
exorbitant rates for the
privilege
What does it all mean?
Money That’s what it
means The tide has turned
so much in New Zealand
that the ‘top shelf’
approach to making a buck
is leaving a nasty taste on
the tongue of both the
locals and the visitors Feeding GST
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ON
HEALTH
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
FOOD
AND
LIVING
EXPENSES
Is this asking too much?
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Afghanistan’s soft-spoken rebel

The voice
from the
back of
A Afghanistan is a young nation ravaged by
old conflicts This does not refer to the new
government created after the invasion
(or the violent battles between different
tribes that have carried on into the new
constitution
interest groups jockeyed for
power Malalai Joya lobbied just for a chance
to speak
shouting “We kids can’t get a word
in! From the back of the room She’s tiny and
has a frustratingly soft voice
so it is hard to
the room millennium) Its youthfulness is a statistical
fact buried in UN and World Bank reports:
imagine that she is a formidable opponent of
warlords But when she takes to the
of the country is under the age of
microphone
it’s clear how easily she makes
and many may not live much beyond that () enemies
Malalai Joya is
only
but Nearly a decade has passed since NATO A tired chairman allowed her to speak for
she has been troops
led by the US
liberated Afghanistan three minutes because she had travelled far
But there is little to show for the occupation
Ninety seconds proved too much Denouncing
an exile
a the billions of dollars of aid money
and the the warlords and criminals present at the Loya
refugee
a thousands of soldiers and civilians killed Not Jirga
she blamed them for the terrible state
teacher of girls much is heard from the young majority The of their country and called for them to be
in the Taliban’s political discourse in Kabul neglects their jailed and prosecuted rather than given
Afghanistan
future; it is dominated by the usual suspects
positions of power “They might be forgiven
bearded bureaucrats and provocateurs of by the Afghan people but not by history
” she
and now that wars past said before the microphone was cut A small
country’s burst of applause was drowned by jeers of
“They are law brokers not law makers “
youngest says Malalai Joya At

she is Afghanistan’s
outrage as delegates leapt from their seats and
member of charged towards her The chairman demanded
youngest member of parliament (and has
parliament that security remove her for crossing the lines
adopted the name Malalai after the Afghan
of common courtesy
She’s still on nationalist hero Malalai Maiwand) She is an
the run outspoken critic of the fundamentalists who We saw nothing but war
subjugate the women of her country Now
though
and she is internationally prominent as the voice “We are the war generation
” she recently
still threatened for an independent Afghanistan Her told me after addressing supporters at the City
with message ‚”end the occupation and the Karzai University of New York “We saw nothing in
government is refreshing and daunting
a our lives but disaster
war
violence
and all
assassination these catastrophic situations ‘As the
manifesto for what the West should really
be fighting for classroom began to empty and those who
by remained clustered around the refreshments
Her parliamentary career began with the table
she drifted between English and Persian
Andrew Loya Jirga

or grand assembly
of
which shaking hands
and posing for pictures as any
Oxford sought to shape the ‘free’ Afghanistan As good politician would Her appearance does
Afghan politicians fought for their place in not betray the refugee camps
the safe houses
Below: the new government and hammered out a and the five assassination attempts
Malalai Joya She is the daughter of a medical student
who left school to fight the Soviets
and her
life has been lived on the run Four days after
her birth
the Communist government took
power and prepared for the Russian invasion
She has lived in exile in Iran
Pakistan and any
number of refugee camps
and she grew up
among the forgotten casualties of war who
would later be her proudest constituency: the
widows
the orphans
the displaced After the
Soviets fled
civil war engulfed Afghanistan
and the Taliban emerged victorious

a
chauvinist and extremist government took
hold of her homeland and turned Malalai Joya
into a quiet rebel At
she began work as an
underground teacher for a women’s rights
group Teaching girls how to read
she
constantly dodged the watchful authorities;
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and in the austerity of her fugitive existence
Geopolitics have defined Afghanistan
among the illiterate and oppressed
she from the ancient trading routes through the
became a committed activist mountains to the British
Soviet and US
With the feminist Organisation for expeditions and occupations Its location has
Promoting Afghan Women’s Capabilities
been a blessing and a curse “They invaded
Malalai became a prominent voice for women my country to have access to the gas and oil
in the shadows of subversion In
when of the Asian republics” Malalai said “And
NATO ran the Taliban out of Kabul
she and now the people of my country are crushed
“
her colleagues were poised to seize the between three powerful enemies: the
opportunity of building a new nation”After occupation forces bombing and killing They say a
/
they occupied my country under the innocent civilians
most of them women and civil war will
banner of women’s rights and human rights children; and the Taliban and these warlords
and democracy
but they bring into power this
happen in
photocopy of the Taliban” she told supporters
”Truth is the first casualty” Afghanistan
in New York “That’s why today
the situation As a member of the parliament
in Afghanistan is a disaster” Malalai is quick
if the troops
representing the rural Farah province
to point out the reality of occupation for Malalai was suspended by her colleagues leave but
average Afghans Poverty remains endemic ()
years ago for making remarks considered too nobody
corruption is flourishing thanks to the billions critical She says this suspension was a plot
of dollars foreign governments and NGOs by the fundamentalists to silence her So she
wants to talk
have poured in
and the recent election was
travels widely
in her country and the world about today’s
she says
ridiculous drama just rubbing salt “The first casualty in war in a country like
in the injured heart of my people Despite a civil war
Afghanistan is the truth”
she says “The truth
few legal and political benefits
women are
itself is political” But it could be her best As long as
still treated like property
weapon these soldiers
“The situation of woman is a disaster and
just as catastrophic as under the domination
“They say a civil war will happen in are in
of the Taliban
” she said Having lived through Afghanistan if the troops leave but nobody Afghanistan
the Taliban’s rule as an underground teacher

wants to talk about today’s civil war As long
Malalai has been an eyewitness to the terror as these soldiers are in Afghanistan
there there will be
”
of the fundamentalists The liberation
she will be civil war” The US and NATO soldiers civil war
says
has brought little change Considering are seen as just another enemy in a nation
the rise in selfimmolation and rape in recent that prides itself on ferocious independence
years
The British
the Soviets and the US and its
cohorts cannot tame Kabul or the Khyber
Malalai says: “Women are the most Pass; even the native forces of the Taliban
victimised because women are a big power
and the Northern Alliance struggle to
one wing of the bird When one wing of the
restrain a population historically inclined to
bird in society is injured
how can the bird fly?”
buck occupation
The burgeoning opium poppy trade has
Malalai hopes democracy can replace
underscored what Malalai had always
decades of colonisation and strife She is
suspected about the occupation “In the last
eight years
they have turned my country into quick to acknowledge how naive she seems;
the centre of drugs It was not unexpected yet she is an unwavering believer in the
They are saying to the poor farmer
“stop power of her own people
who are their only
planting poppies” but the governors of these agents of action “No nation can donate
provinces are drug traffickers liberation to another nation My people can
liberate themselves if they let us live in
Four persons who have high posts in peace Over these years
we lost almost
Karzai’s cabinet are famous drug traffickers everything But we did gain one important
The US complicity in the multibillion dollar thing and that is political knowledge The
drug trade
as evidenced by Hamid Karzai’s resistance of my people is day by day
brother’s close connections to both the
increasing When the people stand up
they
CIA and the heroin underworld () have can defeat them” ❙
made it clear that poppies are not just a
convenient cash crop for the struggling () United Nations World Population Prospects
farmers They are a new natural resource and () The UN Development Project ranked
the drug lords and their occasional allies in the Afghanistan last in their poverty index and
occupation forces are the new colonialists found that over of the population had
who mean to prosper in the market that leaves no improved water source
most Afghans living in dire poverty () Brother of Afghan leader said to be paid by
CIA
The New York Times
October
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Opinion:
Need of the day – Bridging
development and microfinance
By Farhat
Abbas Shah
R Results are always the best yardstick to
measure the affectivity of any endeavour It
is not a matter of blame game or trading
charges To fight poverty all over the world
requires stock taking of all the efforts made
so far
Let’s take the example of Pakistan and
Afghanistan Pakistan
of course
differs from
Afghanistan as the microfinance sector at
least took off but
much to our chagrin
could
not bear the expected results Afghanistan still
desperately looks for even the initial stage
In Pakistan the performance of the
sector betrays a kind of rift of vision and
mission The facilitators at local level also
failed to recheck the strategy in cases of utter
failures and continued reckless financing In requires a sincerity of purpose Islamic finance
doing so
the real players at local level were if taken up as a methodology could help tap a
automatically ignored huge market which desperately needs a
response from the sector
Then
consciously or unconsciously
undesired results of the microfinance sector The aspect of AmaleKhair (social
“
were attributed to the world economic crisis responsibility) could off set the crisis of
No doubt
The fact is that at least so far countries like confidence between the POs and customers
there were India
Pakistan
Bangladesh and China while hugely contributing to the success of
maintained healthy growth rates despite the the sector
problems economic downturn in the first world Farz methodology made healthcare
like No doubt
there were problems like environment and education its components
inflation inflation but failures cannot be attributed to to ensure the sustainability of the sector
a single factor A businesslike relation was which cannot be had without the
but failures required between the local facilitators and sustainability of the customer
cannot be Partner Organizations (Pos) instead of By bridging the development and
personal one
attributed microfinance sectors
we can successfully
It created a kind of complacency on the realize the goal of poverty alleviation The
to a single countries like Afghanistan and Haiti also
part of POs while the sector began to suffer
”
factor The registrations of more than
police require this kind of combination Poverty
cases also indicate the violation of Customer alleviation and development should
Code of Conduct simultaneously take place to isolate the
elements who thrive on poverty
destruction
Then there occurred a crisis of and lack of education in countries Pakistan
confidence between the senior management and Afghanistan
of POs and there staff In certain instances
the management began to demand security Poverty is at the heart of all the ills and
checques from their staff problems I have personally seen the cases
where poverty has pushed the individuals to
This breach of confidence also an unthinkable extreme After a lot of work
disillusioned the customers and cast doubt with the sector
this methodology was
upon the sincerity of purpose
with which formulated A tremendous initial response
initially the whole exercise of the sector was gave a great deal of encouragement
launched convincing us that through determination
Though Islamic finance has offered a sincerity of purpose and means

we can make
viable and effective method
even this direly a difference ❙
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Giving Poetry Away:

Spineless
Books
with
A A while back I got an email from a
scientist in Texas who’d read some poems on
my webpage in his lunch hour and said he
was heading down to his local Barnes and
Noble to buy a copy of my book
So I have decided to join the honourable
tradition of freeing poetry from the shackles
of capitalism — and here I’m thinking of things
like Pio’s little magazine
given away free
on street corners in the s and s
and
John Tranterís internet magazine Jacket
with
Of course
he’s not going to find it It is
an average of
hits per issue from all
Bite hard enough to find any work by an
Australian poet in an Australian bookshop –
around the world From today I’m making my
chapbook Things in a Glass Box (originally
let alone a book that’s a few years old He
published as part of the awardwinning
By Beth probably would have more chance of success
SCARP/Five Islands Press New Poets series)
if he said he was going down to his local pet
Spencer available on my webpage as a free download
shop to buy a wombat
With the help of a friendly graphic
Republished Basically
bookshops are a nineteenth
designer I’ve recreated the original print file
with century technology for the distribution of
and turned it into two pdf files With these
permission of cultural products to an elite group They still
anyone anywhere with access to the internet
the author work fine for some things
but I am always
and a printer (and a stapler
although you
amazed at how committed poetry publishers
could also use a needle and thread) can print
and funding bodies are to pursuing this
the files on A pages
fold them down the
avenue
given that the best you could hope
middle
staple them and have an exact
for is to get your poetry book into say
seven
facsimile of the original page book
cover
shops around Australia
instead of three
and all
(The cultural equivalent of rearranging
deckchairs) I love the chapbook form Poems are such
intense compact things that a small compact
And there is something so personal about
book that you can read in one sitting (instead
owning a book by a local contemporary poet
of watching a television programme
for
that
for many people
even if they do happen
instance; or on the train to work) and then
“
to know about and live handy to one of these
pass on to someone else seems ideal to me
It is not rare (and admirable) poetrystocking shops
hovering around the poetry section

choosing Indeed another problem with the fixation
that people something
taking it to the counter — and on bookshops is that collections are often
don’t like then having it visible beside their bed as a padded out with a lot of lessthanwonderful
poetry – I marker of their taste — can be as intimidating poems to get to that pages and a spine
as going into an adult bookshop And if you never finish a book
you’re much
think the less likely to pass it on or recommend it to
It is not that people don’t like poetry – I
internet think the internet has proven that they do
others
has proven and that it’s a highly participatory art form In fact once you shift from this provider
Indeed while poetry has traditionally been centric viewpoint — how do we get more
that they valued for its universal themes (universal people to buy more poetry books— and ask
do
and amongst the small elite group that read it)
instead things like: ëhow do we rejuvenate
that it’s a there are so many wonderful opportunities and make poetry culture healthy and vibrant
for its use as a niche product a lot changes?
highly
Furthermore
with school curriculum’s For the real need is not to sell books
but
participatory increasingly requiring students to write a to create the conditions where our best poets
”
art form poem as part of their assessment
there is and a diverse range of poets
have time and
probably never been a better time for money to devote significant time to their
looking at ways to get a wide range of work for significant periods in their lives
diverse voices and styles out there where
And giving it away free might just be a
people can wander through in the privacy
first step towards this
of their own homes
and select what they
want for further reading Cast your bread on waters
goes the old
saying
and it will come back buttered
And there has never been a better time
or better opportunities
for giving it away After all
for most of us
giving it away is
free hardly going to be a major financial sacrifice
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For instance
if having my poetry book on of interventions that can circulate quickly
the internet gets me just one gig speaking at and for free but be read offline in a
“
a school
or sells a handful of library copies of convenient and attractive form and passed
my Body of Words CD and Box of Words CD around In his book
ROM
then it will have made me more than I
Simple and compact And compactness Unleashing
ever got in royalties from the original hard
version
is the key: the ability to say something in a the Idea
pithy
meaningful and memorable way
Of course this doesn’t mean I’m going to which is after all the essence of poetry
Virus
Seth
give all my writing away for free But why whether it’s in a poem
or a story
or an Godin
hang onto something that doesn’t sell well essay So that these little spineless books suggests that
anyway? Why not get it out there
let it could have real bite ❙
circulate? you give
In his book Unleashing the Idea Virus
Seth things away
Godin suggests that you give things away for Things in a Glass Box is available for free and
free and then create addedvalue products and free at wwwbethspencercom
then create
souvenirs that can be purchased: an expanded
version
a handcrafted or signed gift edition
Or you can hear sound versions on addedvalue
public performances
workshops
talks
audio Beth Spencer’s Body of Words products and
versions to listen in the car
teaching materials doublecd and Box of Words cdrom
and so on available from souvenirs
Godin himself is a particularly good
wwwdogmediacomau that can be
”
(wwwbethspencer/
example of this principle: even when his entire
spinelessbookshtml)
purchased
book was available as a free download on his
website
the hardback was still number five
on the Amazon bestseller list
For what this method does is value people
who are cashpoor but timerich These are
your virus sneezers
the ones who have the
time to trial your product and then pass the
message on They are poetry is free
advertising and they have a cultural role that
should be nourished and respected
Publishers would still be crucial
as
selection portals (the quality control
gatekeepers for those without time to scour
the net themselves) and for their editing skills
But you could use your subsidy to pay an
artist and a webdesigner instead of the usual
graphicdesigner and printer Mass copies out
via the Web
and a beautiful limited edition
for sale to friends
collectors and rare book
libraries
And who knows: videos were predicted to
destroy the viability of cinema but instead
created an increased demand Perhaps the
same might happen here
I’m not sure why literature funding bodies
seem so nervous of operating outside of the
publisherbookshop nexus There are lots of
other examples out there where cultural
products are commissioned and then given
away free: the ABC
sculpture in public places
libraries
schools
And there are so many possibilities in this
printathome format
especially in these
times of increasing media concentration It
could be used for monographs
essays
all sorts
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Vegetable tour guide

by Elisabeth
Alington
It’s fullon
F From dawn to dusk last Spring
Andrew
Seager was busy preparing raised beds
spreading compost
goading the tractor into
doing the hardyard and sowing beans
carrots
radish
basil
and zucchini
Somewhere along the way he managed
At and attracted by the idea of
community
he left the UK and headed down
under where he chanced upon biodynamics
as a method of sustainable food production
But it was to be some time before biodynamics
would become part of his life First
he had to
for Andrew return to the UK via Asia and Mount Everest
to transplant Autumn’s fare of kohlrabi
Seager most broccoli and cauliflower seedlings

base camp
of the year If that’s not a week’sworth of work
on For the next few years
Andrew explored
Saturdays he’s manning a stall at the Black the world Like most biodynamic farmers
he
Barn Farmers’ Market in Havelock North
was inclined to think ‘outside the square’ –
selling the vegetables of his labour these farmers are not the ones responsible for
messing up your favourite fishing river
Andrew operates his market garden from
a modest
onehectare property that lies While working on biodynamic farms and
kilometres south of Hastings near Te Hauke gardens in England and Germany
he was able
He’s been there now for years
although to attend lectures in economics and social
to begin with
it took a long time to find the development at colleges that taught such
right patch on which to put down his roots subjects out of an understanding of Rudolf
Steiner’s anthroposophy or ‘human wisdom’
As a schoolboy
growing up near London
And by his mid twenties he was successfully

and fascinated by the idea of the Antipodes
employed … ‘at the ‘bottom of the
“
Andrew longed to go to New Zealand to
socioeconomic compost heap!’
As a explore the mountains of the Southern Alps
schoolboy
By his early teens he was saving his pennies; In Germany at that time
gardeners were
earning pocket money tidying up ‘old ladies’ not as highly valued as they should have been
growing up gardens’ given how much society depends on them for

near London
and
fascinated by
the idea of
the
Antipodes
Andrew
longed to go
to New
Zealand to
explore the
mountains of
the Southern
”
Alps
Picture: E Alington
“I like direct contact with the public because I get the opportunity to explain what biodynamics is to
interested folk.” Andrew Seager at Black Barn Farmers’ Market.
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a good feed But they’re a humble lot
Knowing that social evolution begins at the
grassroots
they press quietly on with their
hoeingand wait
In Andrew’s case
he found himself tilling
a series of large biodynamic gardens On one
of these gardens a few cows were kept for
their manure When transformed with the aid
of the biodynamic preparations
two cow
manure becomes a magnificent and vital part
of closedsystem
sustainable food production Ensuring that produce is properly certified
By now
Andrew was behind the wheel of is in everybody’s interest
a delivery van The ‘Gemusetour’ or the His laidback demeanour suggests long
‘vegetable run’ supplied shops
schools and hours of toil Yet Andrew’s is a life of
hospitals with the highly soughtafter
contentment and a certain indefinable
Demetercertified biodynamic produce richness – one that’s familiar to those who
Once a Greek goddess of agriculture
are lucky to be doing what they love while
Demeter is now an internationally recognised serving the wellbeing of others and the
certification symbol for food that has been Earth As he says
“Biodynamics is the best
produced biodynamically (ie) sustainable in way of achieving sustainability both for
terms of triplebottom line – people
planet our lifestyle and for the land I do it because
“
and profit Within the wider organic I want to produce food of substance in order
movement
Demeter is acknowledged as to produce people of substance We are Following
being organic par excellence what we eat!” ❙ the
Andrew wore out his tyres conveying to obligatory
happy customers great golden orbs of conversion
Demeter cheese
fragrant loaves of Demeter
bread
masses of Demeter vegetables as well period
he
as Demetercertified lemons and oranges became a
trucked up from Spain Then he took off to
Capetown
South Africa to work on another
certified
biodynamic farm for two years Again he Demeter
found himself driving loads of vegetables
grower as
homemade rusks
yoghurt
fruitleather and
bunches of flowers to the local markets soon as his
Back in the UK
he established himself as a property
landscape gardener for several years before
severing his natal tie with Mother England
was eligible
selling the business and returning to NZ; and now
eventually purchasing the Te Hauke property maintains a
in Spring
commitment
Today he’s still transporting freshly
harvested food to farmers’ markets and to Demeter
supplying local shops with high quality because of
produce! Following the obligatory conversion
period
he became a certified Demeter grower
its
as soon as his property was eligible and now international
maintains a commitment to Demeter because reputation
”
of its international reputation At the Anthroposophy is a path of spiritual
Organics Aotearoa NZ conference held in enquiry that cultivates independent
Hamilton in November
delegates were of the thought and scientific outlook
opinion that ‘it’s not organic unless it’s The Biodynamic Preparations are a series
certified’ With continuing growth of organics of specially prepared flowering herbs
cow
despite the global recession
there are many manure and ground quartz that can be used
‘wannabe’ organic growers out there and to stimulate root growth
improve
consumers need to be vigilant about what photosynthesis and increase humus
they’re paying for NZgrown organic produce formation Available from the Biodynamic
bears a stamp of approval from either Biogro
Farming and Gardening Assn
Organic Farms NZ
Asurequality or Demeter wwwbiodynamicorgnz
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Five Factors Which Make It
Difficult to Succeed in Modern Life
I
by Lance
If you have ever thought to yourself
Would you like to have your heart stop
Ong “Darn
my life is in the dumps”
then you are or have your brain become a stupid vegetable
the person who should read this most before you have had a chance to enjoy your
money? What about connecting yourself to
This for two reasons: First
what you
a blood sucking machine for the rest of your
learn here can help you make a difference in
life? I drink a lot of coffee and perhaps you
shaping your life to the way you want it to
do too Why do we swallow this brown stuff?
be And second
you can help a friend by
sharing this message with them Doing so
The answer often is that we need our daily
you can make the world a better place – one shot of caffeine; sometimes even several shots
person at a time just to get through the day Since the turn of
the millennium
our world has been evolving
What follows is an analysis of five factors
at a blistering pace We have actually built an
which block the path to a life of fully realised
international space station
there was the Dot
potential What I mean by realised potential
Com boom and bust

the rise of China and
is that within you
there exists enormous
India as economic giants
the cloning of
potential to be released in this lifetime You
animals
the invasion of Iraq
the Bali
might not realise you are a channel for great
Bombings
world recession
a flu pandemic
things
not many people do Many have
natural disasters every month
the end of the
buried their dreams in the sands of time and
“
world in and more
live stuck in the nine to five grind
You can Even without trying to keep up with
You can change this and start living your
change this life on your own terms
in the direction you
global events
people find themselves
stretched thin between work and family
and start want to go I am sure you have tried many
commitments There is a common saying that
living your times before to make your breakthrough

“we have lots of stuff to enjoy
but no time to
But somehow
you just found yourself
life on your enjoy it” On the other hand
there are those
hitting an invisible wall – an unseen factor
who do spend their time wallowing in hedonic
own terms
holding you back that blocks the path to your
pleasures
who often find that they sacrifice
goal This essay is about uncloaking these
in the invisible walls; making them visible to you
achievements in their career and their

material success
direction and showing you how to get pass them so
you want to you can build the life of your dreams Are What you probably want is a lifestyle
you ready? where you can enjoy what you have
without
go I am sure going broke at the same time To break
Factor : A World Too Fast To Handle through this wall
you need to have a clear
you have
On all fronts
things are changing fast sense of your place in the world
tried many
People complain of not having enough time Amidst an era of sweeping changes
what
times before and suffering from fatigue and chronic lack do you stand for and where are you headed?
to make of sleep Around the world
people work hard
In stormy unchartered waters
a boat’s
and fast
yet they still don’t have enough
your time to get everything done According to captain needs to steer the vessel towards a
breakthrough the National Study of the Changing specific destination
or risk drifting forever at
Workforce
at least of the US adult sea
But
population is sleep deprived
many surviving How can you chart the purpose of your
somehow
on to hours rest a night than the life? How can you know which way to go?
you just necessary to hours
These are eternal questions every human
found In Japan
there is the phenomenon of being eventually ponders along the course of
‘karoshi’
or death by overwork All this their lifetime The clearer you are
the easier
yourself working through the night and pushing it will be to get there
hitting an oneself to the extreme leads to metabolic
”
issues and straining of the heart and kidneys
Factor : Drowning in Exabytes
invisible wall
which greatly increases the risk of stroke
Your email inbox is swamped with SPAM
cardiovascular disease and diabetes() You have too many movies to watch Your
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()
unread books and magazines are piled sky gaming Also the student who studied
high And yet you are still downloading more till one of his brain vessels burst causing
“
content
ordering new titles and albums
and stroke that ended his academic future An I have a
clogging your brain with streaming video ancient inscription from the Greek temple
instead of consuming the valuable material of Apollo touts the clear wisdom: “nothing friend who
you have waiting in excess” has great
In this world
information is unlimited
For life to have zest
everyone needs that plans and
there is more being produced every second natural feeling of drive
anticipation
and dreams for
Despite all the research expounding the excitement When one does not know how
boundless capabilities of the human brain
to get it naturally
one may resort to vices his life But
your brain does have a limit Be careful of to stimulate that sense of being fully alive
he has
rushing for more and more content because desperately trying to bring some meaning
once you choke up your mind
you won’t have into life For these temporary pleasures
it trouble
the mental space to produce anything feels exciting while it’s happening
but once achieving any
noteworthy Productivity drops Goals are it’s over
the same pattern of meaning of his goals
abandoned; dreams crushed lessness sets in
and they are left wondering
“When can I get the next high?” Closer

I have a friend who has great plans and
dreams for his life But he has trouble Factor : The Cards You Are Dealt inspection of
achieving any of his goals Closer inspection
The trend has been that the rich are
his routine
of his routine uncovered that he spends all his
free time watching movies – he downloads
getting richer and the poor are getting uncovered
which are entertaining but
as he admits
poorer How poor? that he
useless I asked him why the insanity? And he Almost half the world’s population – spends all his
said it is because he wants to maximise the billion people live on less than two dollars
value of the cable modem subscription he pays (USD) a day Just imagine
you had a
free time
so much money for
apparently
the fastest chance of being born into such a hard life watching
broadband plan on the market I told him
“Do The majority of the world’s population are
you realise that in attempting to squeeze
movies – he
born into average and low income families
maximum value from your broadband
you Some say this is the reason why they cannot downloads
are squeezing the time for success out of your succeed which are
life” He has since cut the downloading habit
and uses his free time more purposefully
But there is something worse You have entertaining
a chance of being born disabled One in
Examine how you are using your free
but
as he
every ten children around the world copes
time
and are there any information clogs you with a disability
and according to the World admits
can unplug? Some hotspots might be your Health Organisation (WHO)

there are useless I
chat messenger
your social networking approximately million disabled people on
platform
and even your email system Earth
asked him
Factor : Catch an Addiction The good news is
despite financial and
why the
physical setbacks
if your brain is functioning insanity? And
If you have got one
you can identify it
well
you can still achieve amazing outcomes he said it is
through the effect it produces in your life
in your lifetime
Your time
energy
and money will be sucked because he
up pursuing this one thing you must have If As a oneyearold baby
Helen Keller
you do not obtain it
you have a sense of contracted an illness which left her deaf and
wants to
uneasiness
craving
and even frustration blind – no sight
no sound; everything maximise the
Some say this is the Devil at work through touch Even so
she could pick up value of the
language
earn a Bachelor of Arts
write
Gautama Buddha said
“Grasping leads to
books
become a political activist
and even cable modem
suffering
when you crave what you do not
have” It is incredibly easy to catch an
lecture for universities subscription
addiction; temptations surround you in Helen was blessed with a great teacher
he pays so
modern society You have probably heard of Annie Sullivan
who taught her the sign much money
serious ones like sex
gambling
and alcohol language alphabet by tracing the outlines on
for
”
addiction But even seemingly mild fetishes Helen’s palm
like shopping
online gaming
and eating can
The danger of this wall is in believing that
be destructive when the activity becomes a
the scarce conditions you begin with are the
compulsion
deathbed of your dreams Like Helen Keller
There was the Korean fellow who died

after hours of nonstop computer
you can make best use of the cards you are
dealt
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➼ are born
Always remember: the conditions you
into are not a curse
but a necessary
strain before it begins to break down
Rest adequately to maintain your
starting point for the life you are going to youthful vigour
lead (ii) If the world is a whirlwind of events
Factor : Your Very Own Self know where you are headed amidst
the storm
The four factors we have explored above
B) Drowning In Exabytes
are external barriers They are blocks set in
your path due to the outside world This fifth (i) Note that clutter is not only physical
factor is an internal barrier; meaning that it but also mental If you keep filling
is within you You are the cause Within your your brain with movies and
“
mind
there could be a mental virus streaming video
it will use up your
Perhaps you preventing you from achieving your goals mental hard disk space keeping you
Perhaps you want to be happy in life
but in a daze for hours after the show
as
want to be you ponder what it would be like to
since your youth
your parents have drilled
happy in into you the idea that you have got to be live in that imaginary world Actively
life
but working and achieving all the time Every reduce or remove mental clutter to
time you relax
there is a nagging voice in free up thinking capacity
since your your head telling you to ‘buck up and work C) Catch An Addiction
youth
your harder’
(i) Beware the vices of the world They
parents How do you think that affects the come not only in terms of intoxicants
have drilled choices you make? Could that mean you and activities
but also people
neglect your child’s science demonstration (ii) Any regular activity
done to an
into you the to close that million dollar deal? Or having extreme
can become an addiction
idea that worked to the point of exhaustion
you
return home and forcefully explode when D) The Cards You Are Dealt
you have your spouse asks you to empty the garbage? (i) Trust that there is divine purpose to
got to be your life and that where you began
Looking back
you realise your parents
working and is exactly where you needed to be
had the best of intentions in telling you the
(ii) Believe that you can achieve
achieving all things they did They could not have known
the outcomes such programming would E) Your Very Own Self
the time produce If however
you do manage to sort
(i) Consider how your life today is a
Every time out this block
then life turns out differently
reflection of who you have been
you relax
You know that yes
it is important to choosing to be through every
there is a work hard
but without sufficient rest
you decision you have made
won’t be working hard for long Yes
the (ii) Looking within and knowing yourself
nagging million dollar deal is worth a lot
but the pride can bring alignment to your being
voice in in your child’s eyes is priceless (reschedule increasing your ability to take action
your meeting) And of course
you make it a and create the life you deserve
your head point never to work to the point of
telling you exhaustion; always reserving some energy F) Practical Application
to ‘buck up to care for your friends and family (i) Notice at which of the five factors
you are stuck at Focus your change
and work Past programming is like an invisible
effort there
”
enemy It is difficult to fight because you
harder’ cannot see it You are aware of its effects in
your life
but you are not sure why you act References
or react the way you do If you can bring
) The research
published in the Archives of
alignment into your being
energy flows
and
Environmental and Occupational Health
you can take action in the world to and conducted by John Violanti of the
accomplish your dreams
despite challenge State University of New York at Buffalo
from the other four factors and colleagues
focused on police
officers Data were gathered on blood
Actions: To Create A Life Worth Living pressure and blood lipids
as well as
A) A World Too Fast To Handle information on sleep habits
physical
activity and smoking and alcohol use
(i) Know that the world is accelerating
at an unbelievable pace
so do not () South Korean Dies After Games Session
expect to keep up with it Your http://newsbbccouk//hi/technology/
stm
human body can only take so much
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Promoting Development,
Saving the Planet
T
The separation in practice of the climate
change and development agendas has
distorted the global debate on the two
biggest policy challenges facing the
international community
To date
the concept of development has
too often remained in the background during
the evolving climate debate As a result
the
discussions concerning both normative issues
(invoking “common but differentiated
“
According to the World Economic and responsibilities”) and financial ones (entailing
To date
the Social Survey
an integrated approach based how to fund mitigation and adaptation) have
concept of on the concept of sustainable development become polarized Moreover
the discussion
is urgently needed on creating policies and programmes to
development support the greening of catchup growth has
has too The key to such an approach is a low hardly started
carbon
highgrowth transformation of the
often global economy—a transformation that can
remained in keep temperature increases consistent with
the environmental stability as identified by the
scientific community
while at the same time
background fostering the strong growth and economic
during the diversification in developing countries that
would allow convergence of incomes
evolving worldwide
climate The greening of catchup growth will
”
debate have to be further tailored so as to meet the
adaptation challenges facing vulnerable
countries and communities whose economic
security will be threatened even if climate
change is kept within globally manageable
limits
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D
➼ of climaterelated
Driven by upward trends in the number Cluster villages
disasters and human
vulnerability to them
new Oxfam research After the floods
several houses in a
shows that by the average number of number of villages in Bangladesh were raised
By
people affected each year by climaterelated to avoid floods Community leader
Robert disasters could increase by over per cent Mohammed Abu Ysef says
“Before this cluster
Bailey
to million This figure is likely to continue village
life was very hard for people Every
Senior Policy to rise as climate change gathers pace – year the area was flooded Now we feel there’s
Adviser
Oxfam increasing the frequency and/or severity of no monsoon because we don’t face any of the
GB such events – and poverty and inequality problems”
force ever more people to live in highrisk Flood shelters
places
such as flood plains
steep hillsides
and urban slums
while depriving them of the A flood shelter is a three to five acre area
means to cope with disaster of raised ground (around to football
pitches) People can bring their livestock
But it is not just the headlinegrabbing possessions

and even their homes
to the
disasters that affect poor communities The safety of a flood shelter Flood shelters can
incremental impacts of climate change
such accommodate families Facilities
as changing rainfall patterns and melting include a community room for those without
glaciers
undermine poor people’s ability to shelter
tubewells
latrines
a fishpond
and
feed their families day by day areas for vegetable cultivation and tree
“
The IPCC warns that by midcentury
plantations
The IPCC more than a billion people will face water
Clean water
warns that shortages and hunger
including million
by mid in Africa alone Some countries in Africa are Flooding can contaminate water supplies
predicted to face the halving of yields from leading to potentially fatal diseases Oxfam
century
their staple crops
such as corn and rice
as works with villagers to maintain safe supplies
more than soon as Oxfam is working with of water Here a villager is drawing water from
communities all around the world
to help a raised tubewell The top of the pipe of some
a billion them adapt to the challenge of climate tubewells can be quickly extended
so keeping
people will change it above the level of any floods
face water Climate change adaptation in Disaster preparedness committees
shortages Bangladesh: preparing for flood Oxfam support the set up and running of
and disaster disaster preparedness committees which help
people before
during
and after a flood Hawa
hunger
The disastrous floods in
Parvin
the President of her village committee
Bangladesh inundated per cent of the
including country
killed over people
destroyed in Bangladesh
says
“Previously we just
million three quarters of the standing crop and left reacted We’d work together
but now we plan
million people homeless “The last two before the flood happens It’s meant that
for
in Africa example
we didn’t have to leave here in
decades have witnessed abnormally frequent
alone and intense flooding
” says Dr Ainun Nishat
”
Some of the International Union for Conservation Radios
of Nature in Bangladesh Oxfam helps people
countries in prepare for the yearly floods in Bangladesh
Oxfam have given radios to the

Africa are committees Special broadcasts alert villagers
which are exacerbated by climate change
and enable preparedness plans to be put into
predicted Raised houses action The Imam at Charatra
Shariatpur
to face the Raising the ground above flood level

Bangladesh says “When I hear the news on
the radio I go straight to the mosque and make
halving of helps protect people’s homes Grasses and an announcement over the microphone
yields from trees planted around this raised house Everyone can hear at the same time and can
prevent erosion put the agreed preparedness plan into action”
their staple
“We grow vegetables
like pumpkins
on
crops
such the roof
and fruit trees
like mango and
Rescue boats
as corn and jackfruit
that can be eaten during or after Oxfamfunded rescue boats are kept in
the floods These households did not go areas most at risk of flooding
and at flood
rice
as under water so this food remained available shelters Besides rescuing people
the boats
soon as to the families living here
” says a Kodvanu collect houses
belongings and livestock
”
taking them to areas of safety Where roads
resident in Bangladesh about the
are inaccessible
the boats are used to deliver
floods
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relief; such as food
animal fodder
emergency beds
irrigation is very easy and once the
shelter
and other essentials In Bangladesh in system is established there is less need for

the boats rescued over
people watering
Climate change adaptation in Reaping the benefits
Bolivia: reviving ancient indigenous Local farmer Yenny Noza explains “In the
knowledge old system we lost a lot of plants and seeds
Recurring natural disasters keep many when the floods came Then we had to wait
people worldwide locked in poverty Climate for the water to go down before we could
“
change will increase both the intensity and start replanting But now the plants don’t get
frequency of extreme weather events
such covered with water when the flood comes Bolivia
as flooding or droughts Beni
a district of So we can still harvest and then we can suffered
immediately sow seeds again” This system
Bolivia prone to alternate flooding and
offers an alternative to cutting down the rain disastrous
drought
is an example of a region where
people are being forced to adapt to the forest And
according to Oscar Saavedra of floods two
the Kenneth Lee Institute
“it also creates a
changing climate Oxfam is working with
balance between the dry and wet seasons
years in a
communities to develop adaptation
strategies One solution comes from long enabling people to live with the process of row in
forgotten agricultural techniques used by nature rather than challenging it” and
local farmers who lived
years ago Winning over the community Over
Recurring disaster Initially the local community was people died
Bolivia suffered disastrous floods two sceptical
“We thought it wouldn’t work in the two
years in a row in and Over because we know that the soil is very poor –
it’s dead here and not good for agriculture
” years
people died in the two years

people
were affected in
and another
says Rafael Crespo Ortiz “But with this

technology we have learnt that it can be
were made homeless in Archaeological
done We even have bucheres [a fish that
people were
research gave hope that adaptation was
possible in floodprone areas It revealed that can live in the mud during the dry season] in affected in
the preInca civilisation living here before the channels so we will have an additional
and
carried out vast modifications to the fish stock supply in the community”
another
landscape
and developed an agricultural A sense of pride
system that coped with environmental

challenges while improving soil fertility and Yenny Noza says: “We couldn’t imagine were made
productivity what it would be like When we saw it for
the first time we became more and more homeless in
A sophisticated system curious We wanted to know how it worked
and when we saw how it worked we saw it
Today
Oxfam
together with the Kenneth
was very good And because it was developed
Archaeological
Lee Foundation
is working with the
community of Trinidad to replicate this by our ancestors we felt proud because we research
centuriesold technique The system is actually were recovering something old It’s very nice gave hope
very sophisticated
producing fertile soil
fish to be involved in this”
that
stock
animal fodder and localised drainage Climate change adaptation in
through clever water management
nutrient adaptation
Tanzania: supporting the livelihood
production and organic recycling It also
of maasai pastoralists was possible
includes the construction of elevated seedbeds
known locally as camellones
to prevent
in flood
Drought upon drought
rising food and
”
seasonal floodwater washing away seeds and fuel prices have hit Maasai pastoralists in prone areas
plants Tanzania hard An Oxfam grainbank is
making all the difference in a community of
Improving fertility
Ngorongoro
Tanzania
Around the raised beds are water channels
where a combination of plants and fish Increasingly unpredictable climate
produce a fertile environment The plants are The Maasai pastoralists of northern
harvested and placed on top of the banks Tanzania are some of the country’s most
where
after six months
they help produce marginalised people They often live in
cm of fertile soil The fastgrowing
drought and disasterprone areas
and
indigenous
plants can also be used for animal depend on cattle for their survival But the
fodder The community also gets an additional
source of fish Because water surrounds the
increasingly unpredictable climate and
successive poor rains have left the animals
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blood and meat
With the cattle too weak
the Maasai have
grower communities based on the slopes of
Mount Kilimanjaro also suffer from the erratic
to eat porridge made from cereals
but prices climate Oxfam America helps those
are high communities adapt
and raises awareness of the
risks climate change poses not just to them but
Rising staple prices also to the whole Western coffee supply chain
“
Prices of staples like maize are up per Climate change impact
Oxfam cent in Tanzania
driven up by fuel prices and
America drought In remote districts
prices are higher The
smallscale Fair Trade coffee
than anywhere A kg container of maize farmers from the Kilimanjaro Native Co
brought operative Union (KNCU) – Africa’s oldest
grain
enough to feed a family of five for a
Raymond week
costs up to
Tanzanian shillings coffee cooperative – do not understand why
Kimaro
()
nearly double the price in January climate change is occurring However
they
To feed their children
local Maasai women are experiencing the effects profoundly They
General have been forced to sell their traditional are struggling to maintain their yields in the
Manager of beadwork
often family heirlooms
and face of rising temperatures and changing
wedding gifts
to tourists staying in nearby rainfall patterns Irrigation ditches and water
the KNCU
taps are running dry Malaria is spreading up
safari lodges
to key the mountain to zones where it never existed
Tourism: an aggravating factor before Desperate for income
farmers are
offices in moving into protected forest lands to cut trees
The impact of rising prices is exacerbated
the US by tourism Many Maasai communities can
for firewood and timber
Congress no longer use water sources taken over by Getting Southern voices heard
recently He tourist lodges
and are being denied the right
to farm their traditional land With little Oxfam America brought Raymond
shared some influence over policies
their traditional Kimaro
General Manager of the KNCU
to key
“ground livelihoods are threatened offices in the US Congress recently He
shared some “ground truth” about the impacts
truth” about Village grain stores of climate change on the slopes of Mount
the impacts Kilimanjaro in his native Tanzania
and
Oxfam is speaking up for the Maasai’s
advocated for robust adaptation financing for
of climate rights and helping them to cope with rising
vulnerable communities in developing
prices We help build village grain stores run
change on by committees of elders The committees use
countries
the slopes a float to buy grain in bulk when it’s cheap at Raising government officials’ awareness
of Mount harvest time Then
as prices rise and fluctuate
When Raymond visited Senator Dianne
”
throughout the year
villagers are able to buy
Kilimanjaro grain at a more stable
reduced rate
Feinstein’s office
he noticed that the
legislator had developed a briefing paper on
Outcomes global warming that featured two photos on
the cover (drawn from Al Gore’s “An
The scheme has allowed Maasai people Inconvenient Truth”): one of the famous
to buy their week’s supply of maize for
snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in
and the
shillings () instead of
() The other of the summit in
where the snows
scheme has had an impact on another way: are now all but melted Raymond simply told
it has considerably reduced the burden on the Senator’s staffperson: “I grew up here”
women
and improved local population’s (pointing to the photo)
“and now I live
health Some women had to make journeys here” (pointing to the photo)
with donkeys of up to km twice a month
to get grain Elizabeth Lemakanga says: “We Winning businesses’ support
were very tired after the long journey We Climate change not only affects the
had to sleep in the open and became sick” livelihoods of the KNCU farmers and those of
Oxfam will continue to help protect the millions of other citizens in vulnerable
Maasai from rising prices and climaterelated communities throughout the developing
shocks
supporting their way of life for the world It also affects business in the developed
next generation world Raymond’s organisation sells high
Raising southern voices: the quality coffee on the Fair Trade market to
Kilimanjaro native cooperative major multinational companies such as
Starbucks and to missiondriven Fair Trade
union case study businesses such as Equal Exchange Starbucks
Climate change does not impact only has expressed concern about the “significant
➼
Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania: the coffee and direct business risk” that climate change
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Gardening with Biodynamics

M Much the same as a monk shaves his head
clearfelling of forests leaves Earth vulnerable
to the wind and rain A monk can put on a hat
but the earth can’t; soil simply erodes Tonnes
of topsoil gets swept from deforested hillsides
and whisked off ploughed farmland every year
yarrow and valerian are the principle
ingredients – either purchased readymade
or prepared in advance They’re simple to
use; immediately after the compost heap is
constructed a pinch of each preparation is
inserted into the heap or
in the case of
valerian
sprinkled over the top
From
humus to
humans,
health
– carried away for good or rather
bad
And what do they do? Research has
depends on
When we realise that the security of our
food supply depends entirely on what a tiny shown that during the rotting process
the the little
sliver of top soil produces – fast becoming one bacterial content of a treated manure heap
of the world’s scarce resources – then we is much higher than that of an untreated critters.
might be inspired to know that there are ways heap Bacteria
you say? What about all
of protecting what’s left Not only can those commercial growers who sterilize their
farmers manage soils by using organic farming soils? Surely we should be making our By
methods that increase carbon sequestration gardens more hygienic by reducing bacteria? Elisabeth
but home gardeners can also help ‘grow’ In our western
hygieneobsessed world
humus by making compost The sole aim of we’re too liberal in our use of ‘sanitisers’ We Alington
the compost heap is to create humus And the forget that some of our modern illnesses –
guiding principle is to treat the heap as a living particularly children’s asthma and exzema
organism because of its bacterial content and problems – are being linked to inadequate
internal fermentation In a way the compost exposure to farmyard bacteria It’s a fact
heap is a little cow Just as a cow’s stomach is that we rely on bacteria for good health Our
a chambered fermentation vat in which bodies contain roughly kilos of bacteria
plant material is digested by millions of of which only are ‘bad’ or capable of
microbes
so is a compost heap an organ of causing severe illness and death The reason
digestion they don’t multiply and kill us is because we
nourish the body in order to maintain an
Most gardeners leave the compost’s environment that favours the good guys
fermentation process to chance But no Essentially
health is about a ‘balance of
brewer or baker wanting to stay in business bacteria’
would do such a thing They have to ensure Below:
And it’s the same with the soil in our In a way, the compost
fermentation is properly guided so they add heap is a little cow –
special yeasts or leavening so as to produce a gardens We want soil to be full of bio
an organ of digestion.
rapid and thorough fermentation We can dynamos or lifeenergy because that’s what It’s built by careful
likewise give direction to the composting Continues page 31 layering of materials.
process by adding some biodynamic compost
preparations These are a series of flowering
herbs – chamomile
dandelion
nettle
oak
poses
given that changing weather patterns
➼
will affect both the quantity and quality of

coffee it sources
Outcome
As part of the new policy coalition
Business for Innovative Climate & Energy
Policy (BICEP)
Starbucks is lobbying the US
government to “provide substantial financing
and other support to help developing
countries prepare for and adapt to extreme
weather
water scarcity
reduced crop yields
Photo J BruceGordon
and other climate impacts that harm local

communities and global supply chains alike”
“ The Right to Survive in a Changing Climate”
April ❙
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An excerpt –
The Rational Optimist
W
By Matt When I set out to write a book about the life expectancy plunge in the s as the AIDS
material progress of the human race
now epidemic spread
but even that trend has now
Ridley published at The Rational Optimist
I was reversed in most countries For all the wars
only dimly aware of how much better my recessions and disasters

the last fifty years have
life is now than it would have been if I had been remarkably
astonishingly
dramatically
been born years before I knew that I have positive The average South Korean lives
novel technologies at my disposal from more years and earns times as much income
synthetic fleeces and discount airlines to each year as he did in (and times as much
“
Facebook and satellite navigation I knew as his North Korean counterpart) The average
In
that I could rely on advances in vaccines
Mexican lives longer now than the average
compared transplants and sleeping pills I knew that I Briton did in The average Botswanan earns
could experience cleaner air and cleaner more than the average Finn did in Infant
with
water at least in my own country I knew mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in
the that for Chinese and Japanese people life had Italy in The proportion of Vietnamese
grown much more wealthy But I did not
average know the numbers
living on less than  a day has dropped from
per cent to per cent in years
human
Do you know the numbers? In
The rich have got richer
but the poor have
being on compared with
the average human being done even better The poor in the developing
Planet on Planet Earth earned nearly three times as world grew their consumption twice as fast as
much money (corrected for inflation)
ate
Earth onethird more calories of food
buried one
the world as a whole between and
The Chinese are ten times as rich
onethird as
earned third as many of her children and could expect fecund and years longerlived than they were
nearly to live onethird longer All this during a half years ago Even Nigerians are twice as rich
century when the world population has more per cent less fecund and nine years longer
three than doubled
so that far from being rationed lived than they were in Despite a doubling
times as by population pressure
the goods and services of the world population
even the raw number
available to the people of the world have
much expanded It is
by any standard
an astonishing
of people living in absolute poverty (defined as
”
less than a dollar a day) has fallen since
money human achievement the s
let alone the percentage living in such
During my lifetime there has only been absolute poverty That number is
of course
still
one year in which the global economy shrank all too horribly high
but the trend is hardly a
— it was — and that only by just cause for despair The United Nations estimates
It is forecast to grow by more than in that poverty was reduced more in the last
After fifty years real income per head has years than in the previous
fallen (slightly) in only six countries Nor was a time of deprivation It was
(Afghanistan
Haiti
Congo
Liberia
Sierra in itself a record — a moment when the world
Leone and Somalia)
life expectancy in three was richer
more populous and more
(Russia
Swaziland and Zimbabwe)
and infant comfortable than it had ever been
a time of
survival in none In the rest they have rocketed extraordinary abundance and luxury compared
upward Many southern African countries saw with any preceding age Yet looking back now
another fifty years later

the middle class of

luxuriating in their cars
comforts and
gadgets
would today be described as ‘below the
poverty line’ The poorest of Britons today
are richer — have higher incomes
after taking
inflation into account — than the richest
of Britons in Today
of Americans officially
designated as ‘poor’
per cent have electricity
running water
flush toilets
and a refrigerator;
per cent have a television
per cent a
telephone
per cent a car and per cent air
conditioning Cornelius Vanderbilt had none of
these Even in only per cent of all
Americans had air conditioning: in per
cent of poor households did
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Going back further
everybody knows that average American timetravelling back to
the first half of the twentieth century
which with his modern income He might be the
opened with such hope
was disfigured by richest person in town
but no amount of
decades of war
depression and dictatorship Yet money could buy him the delights of eBay
despite that the global standard of living just Amazon

Starbucks
WalMart
Prozac
Google
kept on inching upwards
so that by the or BlackBerry The lighting numbers cited
average citizen of the world was not only much above do not even take into account the
wealthier and healthier than he his counterpart greater convenience and cleanliness of
in
but had all sorts of new materials
tools modern electric light compared with candles
and services at his or her disposal or kerosene — its simple switching
its lack of
“
smoke
smell and flicker
its lesser fire hazard Even
Today
average life expectancy continues
to march upwards at a steady rate of five hours Nor is the improvement in lighting finished inequality is
yet LEDs with ten times the efficiency of
a day The number of years of retirement is
incandescent bulbs have been demonstrated declining
rocketing upwards Nor is this at the expense
of quality of life in old age Chronic illness before Admittedly
LEDs are still far too expensive worldwide
death is if anything shortening slightly
not to replace most light bulbs
but that might As poor
lengthening
despite better diagnosis and more change
treatments — ‘the compression of morbidity’
Asians get
Time: that is the true measure of
is the technical term People are not only something’s worth If you have to acquire it richer faster
spending a longer time living
but a shorter time for yourself
it usually takes longer than if you than rich
dying get it readymade by other people And if you
can get it made efficiently by others
then you Americans
Even inequality is declining worldwide As

poor Asians get richer faster than rich can afford more of it This is what prosperity the global
Americans
the global ‘Gini coefficient’
which is: the increase in the amount of goods or ‘Gini
measures inequality
has been falling rapidly services you can earn with the same amount
In another respect
too
inequality has been of work As late as the mids
a stagecoach coefficient’
retreating The spread of IQ scores has been journey from Paris to Bordeaux cost the which
shrinking steadily — because the low scores equivalent of a clerk’s monthly wages — today
the journey costs a day or so of work and takes measures
have been catching up with the high ones It is
a levellingup caused by an equalisation of just a few hours A halfgallon of milk cost the inequality
nutrition
stimulation or diversity of childhood average American ten minutes of work in

but only seven minutes in A three
has been
experience Even justice has improved thanks
to new technology exposing false convictions minute phone call from New York to Los falling
and identifying true criminals To date Angeles cost hours of work at the average rapidly In
innocent Americans have been freed as a result wage in ; today it costs less than two
of DNA fingerprinting after serving an average minutes A kilowatthour of electricity cost an another
of years in prison; of them were on death hour of work in and five minutes today respect
too
row In the s it took minutes work to earn

the price of a McDonald’s cheeseburger; today
inequality has
The real cause of these improvements is it takes three minutes been
that most of the things people need or want
have been getting steadily cheaper For We invent new technologies that decrease retreating
example
in monetary terms
the same amount the amount of time that it takes to supply each The spread of
of artificial lighting cost
times as much other’s needs The great theme of human
in England in the year as it does today
history is that we increasingly work for each IQ scores has
and in labour terms the change is even more other We exchange our own specialised and been
dramatic and the improvement is even more highly efficient fragments of production for
recent To earn an hour of reading light on the everybody else’s The ‘division of labour’ Adam
shrinking
”
average wage will have cost you less than half Smith called it
and it is still spreading When steadily
a second of work In
with a conventional a selfsufficient peasant moves to town and
filament lamp and the then wage
you would gets a job
supplying his own needs by buying
have had to work for eight seconds to get the them from others with the wages from his job
same amount of light Had you been using a he can raise his standard of living and those
kerosene lamp in the s
you would have he supplies with what he produces
had to work for about minutes to get the
So ask yourself this: with so much
same amount of light A tallow candle in the
improvement behind us
why are we to expect
s: over six hours’ work
only deterioration before us? I am quoting
Much of this improvement is not included from an essay by Thomas Macaulay written
in the cost — ofliving calculations
which in
when pessimists were already
struggle to compare like with unlike The promising doom “They were wrong then
and
economist Don Boudreaux imagined the I think they are wrong now” ❙
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A job is away to make money moneymaking
we lose the
A calling is a way of life possibility of understanding the
deeper dimensions of work
the
A
A calling consists of meaning meaning of work and the many
ful work that reflects who we are ways it can nourish us spiritually
and not just what we do Before psychologically

emotionally
we go out into the world to do our physically

as well as economically
work
we need to turn inward and If you haven’t answered this
discover what that work might question for yourself
then you
be It is inside where we begin to may find yourself stuck in survival
make meaning in our lives It is mode To find meaningful work
inside where we meet our deepest you need to know what work
longings
our unique gifts
our means to you
truest self It is inside where we
find the twin gifts of purpose and
Get lost in something
passion that become the core of “What did you do as a child that
our working lives caused you to forget time?
Here are some ways to begin There lies the myth to live by”
the process of finding your soul’s Joseph Campbell
work Too often our days become
ruled by the daytimer If every
Do nothing moment of our lives is scheduled
“Part of the work cannot be made

we cut ourselves off from the
it must be received” inspiration that an unexpected
Lewis Hyde event or spontaneous action can
Our lives are so busy that we bring We have all experienced the
never have any time to check in feeling of being so caught up in
with ourselves and reconnect to something that we forget
our innermost being There are everything else Some activities are
so many external voices trying to more likely to put us in this state
tell us who we should be and what than others Conversely
work that
we should like that we cannot has us watching the clock can leave
hear our own still
small voice us drained and depressed The
within that reminds us who we feeling of getting lost in an activity
really are and what we really love is exhilarating and refreshing The
It is essential that we take time things that cause us to lose track
on a regular basis just to be with of time are those things that
ourselves Shut off the TV and the connect us to a sense of the eternal
computer
unplug the phone
set in our lives and thus to a sense of
aside the magazine and do meaning
nothing We cannot know what Remember to play
we want if we don’t know who we
“Play enables us to rearrange our
are
capacities and our very identity so
Ask yourself the question
that they can be used in unforeseen
“Why do I work?” ways”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
“The way we imagine our lives is
the way we will go on living our Play is not frivolous Play keeps
lives” us connected to a sense of joy and
James Hillman pleasure When we forget how to
play
the things we do become rigid
Work is one of the great
and stilted In today’s world our
unexamined assumptions of our leisure activities have become
lives To most of us it seems excessively worklike If we go for
obvious that we work because we by a walk or ride a bike
it is not to
have to
because that’s just what Jason E Smith
take in the view
but to meet our
you do
that’s what people have weightloss goals We go to a
always done However
if we
MA
concert to “get culture” We go to
define work chiefly in terms of a party to network We have
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turned our play into work
when we sensitive instruments that can Work with a career counselor
should be turning our work into play guide us in making the right
“It’s time to start living the life you’ve
By playing we can resurrect our sense choices for ourselves If there is
imagined”
of creativity and remember how it anything that you have ever been
Henry James
feels to enjoy what we do curious about
take it for a test
drive Volunteer Take classes Work with someone who can
Pay attention to your Experiment Imagine each class or help you explore the idea of
dreams and fantasies each situation as a kind of meaningful work Don’t be satisfied
“The center that I cannot find is laboratory in which you can test with just finding a job It is not
the chemical reaction between you enough to try to fit yourself into
known to my unconscious mind”
and a given activity some job description Meaningful
W H Auden
work is work that fits you Depth
Dreams are spontaneous and Trust yourself oriented career counseling is meant
candid portraits of who we are “Just trust yourself
then you will to get you in touch with the deeper
Dreams can help us to uncover those know how to live” patterns in your life When you have
aspects of our being that have not yet Goethe a deep understanding of who you are
found expression in our lives The and how you want to be in the world
Our world is saturated with

images of a dream present aspects of you can then begin the process of
advertising trying to convince us of
ourselves that have been denied or translating that knowledge into a
the importance of liking the right
forgotten Dreams and fantasies satisfying
realworld work situation
products
the right music
the right
reveal to us things that are hidden Be sure you feel comfortable with
lifestyle We are told that if we
to our conscious minds
thus they are your counselor Remember: You are
don’t fit in
we will be left behind
good guides for discovering the life not just a resume You are a complex
Soon we come to believe that if we
that wants live through us By and unique human being ❙
don’t follow the tastes of the crowd
paying attention to our dreams and

we will be ridiculed and rejected
noticing any themes
figures
or
repeating images
we can get
Over time we completely forget
how to recognize our own
How to find
important information regarding our
career exploration
preferences It is essential to stay
meaningful work
I
true to what you like whether or not
Read it is acceptable to others
whether It can make you think you need
or not it is in fashion
and whether to save children dying in Africa
“Everyone takes the limits of his own
or not it is “cool” Learn to say “yes” But
really
you can push papers for
vision for the limits of the world”
to what you like and “no” to what multinational conglomerates and
Arthur Schopenhauer you don’t like Learn to love what feel like you’re doing good for the
If we want our work to be filled you love When you are able to world Here’s how:
with passion
we need to first awaken admit and give room to the little Take care of yourself—have
the possibility of passion in our lives callings of each day
it becomes the basics covered
It is important to explore different easier to hear and enact the larger
The most important thing
ideas and different ways of thinking calling of your life about making meaningful work is
about work and about life Ideas are that if you are always worried
ways of perceiving the world They
Throw out job titles
about paying rent
it’s very hard to
provide us with the means to “Do not go where the path may add goodness back to the rest of
understand the various facts of our lead
go instead where there is no the world Giving back to the world
daily lives The way that we path and leave a trail” requires a sense of personal well
approach our work is determined by Ralph Waldo Emerson being and stability that only people
the ideas that we hold about it who have a roof over their head
It’s easy to get bogged down
Expand your horizons and you will can manage
in our preconceived notion of what
expand the possibilities that are open Take care of your work—
a job entails If we start with a job
and available to you make sure your job doesn’t suck
title
we may reject something that
Explore new areas of interest is a good fit for us Instead
we Work doesn’t give your life
might ask ourselves
“How would meaning What you need from
“If we all did the things we are work is to make sure it’s not
I identify myself if there were no
capable of doing
we would literally undermining your ability to create
job titles? How would I define
astound ourselves” sanity in your life
myself if there was no such thing
Thomas Edison
as work?” Before we can find work Make a difference in peoples’
Explore subjects and activities that fits us
we need to know who lives—from any type of job
that catch your attention We cannot we are and how we want to be in The most competent managers
know if we like somethingor how the world We need to identify are doing meaningful work every
much we like ituntil we’ve tried it the things to which we want to day Management is one of the best
Passion is born of experience
not just give our time and attention Each perches in the world for doing
theory When our bodies and minds of us has our true identity no meaningful work
are engaged
they become highly matter what our job title might be
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The Blue Economy

Cultivating a New Business Model for a Time of Crisis
Based on the new The form of capitalism that has
book How a new generation of entrepreneurs dominated world societies is entirely
The Blue Economy: can bring innovations to the market disconnected from peoples’ real needs Some
years
place
secure the basic needs of all
and two billion people struggle to get by on less
Innovations make sustainable business competitive than two dollars a day
lacking access to food
Million Jobs water

health
and energy
the most basic
M
Mere months after the financial
Published by requirements for survival Over of the
meltdown
the International Labor
Paradigm Publications world’s youth are unemployed Yet one billion
(New Mexico
USA) with Organization (ILO) reported the loss of
of us are overnourished and swim in
the support of UNEP and million jobs Developing economies were
million tons of electronic waste with higher
IUCN deeply affected by massive layoffs in the
metal concentrations than the ores extracted
formal sector and the loss of income in the
Written by Prof informal sector It was a social shock that
from the earth Conservatively
the top
of the world’s wealth is concentrated in the
Dr HC unsettled the world In essence
the world
top of the population
economy for the past few decades was
Gunter Pauli capitalized on money that simply did not
Founder and exist Downsizing and outsourcing were The business model that requires
Director of ZERI some of the key driving forces of every major companies to invest more in order to
September industrial group “Wealth” was generated by save the environment will be replaced
making “assets” appear as though by magic with a frameworkthat permits less
through leveraging credit and creating investment and more revenues while
financial instruments that contributed not building social capital
even remotely to the value of the business Fortunately
times are changing This
Money was multiplied over and over in book is about that change As the second
special accounts without risk
initiative
or decade of the st century sets the stage for
production of real assets Innovation was a new economy
the core question we answer
limited to investments that could produce is
“What is the business framework we really
multiple short term returns Entrepreneurs
need?”
on the other hand
verged on becoming a
vanishing breed Up to now
the model driving our econ
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omies depended on perpetual growth
portfolio of innovations including whole
requiring ever more resources and systems models that have the potential to
investments This model has inherent flaws generate as many as million jobs
It leads to unjust societies
highly skewed and worldwide over the next years
exploitative economies
and devastated
ecosystems The business model that defines Cascading nutrients and energy
corporate environmental responsibility in
terms of size of investment
and defines
The first set of innovations
all proven
“
corporate success as increased shareholder
and benchmarked at a remarkable scale
value and grandiose executive compensation
cascade nutrients and energy the way The

must be replaced The new economy must be
ecosystems do This means that everything
more effective and more collaborative It must
contributes according to its capacity
and
prevailing
become truly sustainable
introducing
innovations that permit less investment
everything stays in the nutrient stream –

even waste is not wasted Instead of
economic
generate more revenues
and build the
strengths of a community and builds up social
contrived scarcity and shortages
what we model
see in the new economic framework is
capital – not debt This is the business
framework that will drive the new Blue
abundance – of food
energy
jobs
and predicates
revenue For example:
Economy This is the framework that will seek
• Under the leadership of Paolo Lugari
Las
that
out and define true sustainability for all living
species on Earth Gaviotas in Colombia converted a scarcity is
desolate savannah created by years
The prevailing economic model predicates
that scarcity is the major limitation Industry
of extensive cattle farming into a lush the major
rainforest that provides residents with
searches for ever higher agricultural yields and
abundant water
food
and fuel while limitation
manufactory outputs
demanding that the
Earth and human labour produce more We
building valuable social capital The
project regenerates biodiversity
and
Industry
must reevaluate this notion and begin to
more fully utilise what the Earth and labour
becomes an island of peace in a world of
poverty and violence
while the land
searches
produce
rather than demanding more
materials and more output It is time to end
value increased more over years than for ever
the shares of Microsoft
turning the local
the insatiable quest for ever lower costs that
drives business towards economies of scale
population bankable higher
through megamergers and acquisitions • Smalldiameter wood is a pernicious fire agricultural
financed by billion dollar loans It is time to hazard in forests throughout the world
adopt broadbased innovative strategies that In New Mexico
USA
the peoples of a yields
generate multiple revenues and greater cash Native American Picuris pueblo have used
flows while creating more jobs It is time for a a whole systems model introduced by and
Blue Economy Robert Haspel and Linda Taylor centered
on mushrooms and their growth manufactory
In shifting our focus to economies of
scope
the framework of the Blue
substrate to converted this fire hazard
into a resource that provides jobs
food
outputs
Economy opens possibilities for a new and livestock feed while upholding their
traditions and culture This stands in stark
demanding
generation of entrepreneurs who use
what is available to sustainably address contrast to how this hazard is handled that the
the needs of the Earth and all its citizens elsewhere in the western US Each year
we see dramatic images of wild fires Earth and
The shift from the model of core devastating rural and even suburban
businesses based on a single core competence areas of California human
and economies of scale to a framework of
multiple businesses with aligned economies • The silkworm converts leaves into labour
of scope may sound unrealistic to the nutrients
which easily blend with soil
executive trained by any leading business bacteria
quickly attracting micro produce
organisms and regenerating topsoil that
more
”
school However
the current global crisis
highlights the need for an framework of will safeguard agricultural production
economic development that is based on and build food security
fundamental innovation and that will Additionally
silk –as discovered by
generate desperately needed jobs while Fritz Vollrath based at Oxford University
sustainably addressing the needs of the earth itself can be used to replace high
and all its citizens This “blue” approach is not performance titanium in health care and
only viable
it has already begun to take root consumer products
reducing the burden
Four years of research has identified a that titanium mining places on the Earth
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➼ while sequestering carbon Simply
replacing the titanium and stainless steel
powered by the differential between
ambient and body temperature and the
“
razor requires the planting of
pressure generated by our voice Professor
Our society is hectares of mulberry trees on desolate Jorge Reynolds (Colombia)
a pioneer in
heavily and infertile land
which apart from whale research
has developed the first
generating top soil creates an estimated pacemaker that requires no batteries
no
accustomed million jobs surgery
and only local anaesthesia
cutting
to consuming • Anders Nyquist (Sweden) mathematic
costs carried by social security by factor

and dramatically reducing the trauma
products that ally codified the termites’ ability to utilize
for the patient
create air flows for temperature and humidity
controls into a model that makes • The alarming proliferation of drug
massive automated climate control systems resistant bacterial and viral strains requires
waste and obsolete
successfully moderating the science to venture towards solutions based
effect of icecold Scandinavian winters on technologies that mirror natural
pollution With the new technology made possible systems
such as the ability of red algae
These by his research
buildings can be designed seaweed to deafen bacteria Australian
products and to warm or cool as needed The “energy scientists Peter Steinberg and Staffan
saving” model of locking all living species Kjelleberg (Australia) discovered that red
their into an airtight and heavily insulated algae seaweed could mitigate the spread
manufacturing room cannot truly serve the purpose of of bacteria – without killing them and
energy savings It merely creates an without poisonous chemistry – simply by
processes environment where the infectious species making the bacteria unable to
have proliferate If one person sneezes
then communicate If bacteria do not hear
squandered everyone sneezes others of their species
they move on and
do not populate a surface This means that
limited Substituting “something” with “nothing” they cannot create a biofilm
a
resources and superstructure that plays a critical role in
many diseases
mired many Our society is heavily accustomed to
consuming products that create massive • The simple but elegant power of a vortex
in living waste and pollution These products and as industrialised by Curt Hallberg and his
environments their manufacturing processes have team at Watreco AB (Sweden) replaces
that are squandered limited resources and mired chemicals with purely physical effects to
many in living environments that are loaded remove bacteria and air from water This
loaded with with toxic residue and the spoils of eliminates the need for bactericides while
toxic residue production The genesis of MH or swine flu cutting energy consumption Many
can be attributed to just such a scenario chemicals are replaced by the forces of
and the spoils Real
lasting solutions – truly sustainable physics Since a vortex is reliably generated
of solutions – require a fundamental shift in our by gravity
it has the potential to generate
”
production awareness We will need breakthrough drinking water with a minimal expense of
innovations
such as the second set of energy
innovations which exemplify how
There are over one hundred such
“something” – models of unsustainable
innovations described in the forthcoming
production and consumption – can be
book
The Blue Economy
presented as a
replaced by “nothing” For example:
Report to the Club of Rome Each has been
• Consumers do not realise that the cost per benchmarked and brought to fruition in
kilowatt hour of electricity stored by a different parts of the world They are are just
hearing aid or a pacemaker battery may a few examples of what is possible
and the
easily surpass € The billion insights they supply give us a positive future
batteries we dump into landfills every outlook The new “blue” business framework
year required energyintensive mining will work with what is locally available to
and smelting in their manufacture While generate multiple revenues and respond to
a “green” battery may someday be basic needs It will provide a platform that
developed
it remains dependent on merges creative entrepreneurship with
mining which is part of the old business breakthrough innovations to nurture life
model The technology is available that secure food and shelter for all
and sustain the
would permit us to simply eliminate the Earth’s natural systems
battery altogether
This mirrors the evolutionary path of
The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany nature Indeed
just as ecosystems evolved to
has already presented a cellphone ever more efficient nutrient and energy cycles
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bringing ever more diversity while developing toward a Blue Economy
based on what
resilience
flexibility
and performance
the we have and what we can share with those
Blue Economy will increasingly rely on less who have not ❙
“
energy and provide more diversity through
Footnote:
innovations brought to the market by ever The
more entrepreneurs fortified with a vision of Gunter Pauli () is an inveterate
real sustainability and prepared to take the entrepreneur whose scope of initiatives span incapacity
risks More players will be encouraged to business
culture
science
and education Aurelio to imagine
respond to critical needs
linking the triangle Peccei
founder of the Club of Rome
exposed
Gunter to a systems approach which has meaningful
of innovation
sustainability
and
influenced his research and projects ever since jobs and to
entrepreneurship away from scarcity and into
abundance Debt becomes social capital
In
with the support of the Japanese provide
external costs become opportunities to government at Tokyo’s United Nations
differentiate on the market University
he launched an initiative to design an worthy
economic framework and business model that
Reimagining our economic future converts all waste
including emissions
into a
challenges
requires entrepreneurs in science
social valueadded cascading model that draws from to a whole
affairs
business
environment
and culture whole systems in nature
generation
We must make information available
In he undertook a massive research
exposing the opportunities we have to project to identify innovations that would shift
equates to
accelerate these innovations on the market
business towards higher levels of competitiveness telling the
and refrain from imposing the laws We will and sustainability
while generating millions of
reach out to others we never imagined jobs through the creation of a platform for
young that
working with
so that we efficiently and entrepreneurship there is no
purposefully allocate resources so that we can In Spring he will personally direct a two future for
respond to the needs of all with what we have year initiative that will regularly present Blue
We must to move away from an economy Economy business models to inspire entre them
that
where the engine of growth is indebtedness preneurs to translate these opportunities into their
loaded upon our children and grandchildren
worldwide business initiatives
squandering those future generations’
generation
Gunter is a member of the Club of Rome and
is lost
”
material resources the author of books
published in languagues
The incapacity to imagine meaningful and fables that bring science and entre
preneurship to young children
jobs and to provide worthy challenges to a
whole generation equates to telling the He is married with four children
including
young that there is no future for them
that his adopted daughter from Zimbabwe
Chido
their generation is lost With over one Govero
billion young people entering the labor For more information please contact
market in the next decade
we must move pauli@zeriorg
From page 23 Gardening with Biodynamics

makes plants thrive Healthy soil comes from Finally
you insert the biodynamic
feeding the garden with compost and
just like preparations; one at a time
each into its own
the food on our plates
quality makes a little hole Then you come back in a few
difference You’ll want to produce the best weeks time to see what’s happening
quality compost possible watering the heap if necessary and perhaps

turning it insideout to ensure the whole
So go for it – make the heap by building
thing is digesting evenly When its ready you
up alternate layers of fresh
green plant waste
spread it on the garden Biodynamic
interspersed with straw
shredded brown
winegrowers use compost sparingly – as a
materials
animal manures and so forth If you
soil innoculant to rejuvenate the microbial
don’t have much manure available you can
population at work under the vines Other
make a little go a long way by making a watery
crops may need more liberal applications
slurry and dunking the straw
saturating
before layering it on the heap You can use The raison d’etre of biodynamic practice
blood and bone if no other animal manure is is quality We want to shape the
available It’s also a good idea to sprinkle in a environment
be it our bodies or our gardens
couple of handfuls of hydrated lime

only not in such a way that high quality microbial
directly onto the manure as it will cause rapid populations can thrive Simply because from
loss of nitrogen which you’re trying to humus to humans
health depends on the
conserve little critters ❙
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Reasons why global warming isn’t natural

) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current ) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist
warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases Willie Soon – http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/Willie_Soon
from man’s activity said he is “embarrassed and puzzled” by the shallow

science in papers that support the proposition that
) Manmade carbon dioxide emissions throughout
the Earth faces a climate crisis caused by global
human history constitute less than per cent
warming
of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the
Earth during geological history ) The science of what determines the Earth’s
temperature is in fact far from settled or understood
) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around
years before rises in CO levels ) Despite activist concerns over CO_ levels
CO_ is a
minor greenhouse gas
unlike water vapour
which
) After world war
there was a huge surge in recorded is tied to climate concerns
and which we can’t even
CO emissions but global temperatures fell for four pretend to control
decades after
) A petition by scientists trying to tell the world that
) Throughout the Earth’s history
temperatures have the political and media portrayal of global warming
often been warmer than now and CO levels have is false was put forward in the Heidelberg Appeal in
often been higher – more than times higher Today
more than signatories
including
) Significant changes in climate have continually Nobel prizewinners
from countries have
occurred throughout geologic time signed it
) The °C increase in the average global temperature )It is claimed the average global temperature increased
over the past hundred years is entirely consistent at a dangerously fast rate in the th century but
the recent rate of averageglobal temperature rise has
with wellestablished
longterm
natural climate
been between and °C per century within natural
trends
rates
) The IPCC theory is driven by just scientists and
) Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski
chairman of the
favourable reviewers
not the usually cited
scientific council of the Central Laboratory for
) Leaked emails from British climate scientists in a Radiological Protection in Warsaw
Poland
says the
scandal known as “climategate” suggest that that Earth’s temperature has more to do with cloud cover
has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming and watervapour than CO concentration in the
atmosphere
) A large body of scientific research suggests that the
sun is responsible for the greater share of climate ) There is strong evidence from solar studies which
change during the past hundred years suggests that the Earth’s current temperature stasis
will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few
) Politicians and activists claim rising sea levels are a decades
direct cause of global warming
but sea levels have
been increasing steadily since the last ice age
) It is a myth that receding glaciers are proof of global
years ago warming as glaciers have been receding and growing
cyclically for many centuries
) Philip Stott
emeritus professor of biogeography at
the School of Oriental and African Studies in London )It is a falsehood that the Earth’s poles are warming
because that is natural variation and while the
says climate change is too complicated to be caused
western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer we
by just one factor
whether CO or clouds
also see that the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are
) Peter Lilley MP said last month that “fewer people in getting colder
Britain than in any other country believe in the
) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
importance of global warming That is despite the claims climatedriven “impacts on biodiversity are
fact that our government and our political class – significant and of key relevance”
but those claims
predominantly – are more committed to it than their are simply not supported by scientific research
counterparts in any other country in the world”
)The IPCC threat of climate change to the world’s
) In pursuit of the global warming rhetoric
wind farms species does not make sense as wild species are at
will do very little to nothing to reduce CO emissions least million years old
which means they have all
) Professor Plimer
professor of geology and earth been through hundreds of climate cycles
sciences at the University of Adelaide
stated that the ) Research goes strongly against claims that CO –
idea of taking a single trace gas in the atmosphere
induced global warming would cause catastrophic
accusing it and finding it guilty of total responsibility disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic ice
for climate change
is an “absurdity” sheets
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)Despite activist concerns over CO levels
rising CO whatsoever that global warming will cause more
levels are our best hope of raising crop yields to feed storms and other weather extremes
an evergrowing population
) One statement deleted from a UN report in
)The biggest climate change ever experienced on Earth stated that “none of the studies cited above has
took place around million years ago shown clear evidence that we can attribute the
observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse
)The slight increase in temperature which has been
gases”
observed since is entirely consistent with well
established
longterm natural climate cycles ) The world ‘warmed’ by / °C from to

not the °C expected by the IPCC
) Despite activist concerns over CO levels
rising CO
levels of some socalled “greenhouse gases” may be ) The IPCC says
“it is likely that future tropical cyclones
contributing to higher oxygen levels and global (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense”
cooling
not warming but there has been no increase in the intensity or
frequency of tropical cyclones globally
) Accurate satellite
balloon and mountaintop
observations made over the past three decades have ) Rising CO levels in the atmosphere can be shown
not shown any significant change in the longterm not only to have a negligible effect on the Earth’s
rate of increase in global temperatures many ecosystems
but in some cases to be a positive
help to many organisms
) Today’s CO concentration of around ppm is very
low compared with most of the Earth’s history – we ) Researchers who compare and contrast climate
actually live in a carbondeficient atmosphere change impact on civilisations found warm periods
are beneficial to mankind and cold periods harmful
)It is a myth that CO is the most common greenhouse
gas because greenhouse gases form about per cent ) The Met Office asserts we are in the hottest decade
of the atmosphere by volume
and CO constitutes since records began but this is precisely what the
about per cent of the atmosphere world should expect if the climate is cyclical
) It is a myth that computer models verify that CO ) Rising CO levels increase plant growth and make
increases will cause significant global warming plants more resistant to drought and pests
because computer models can be made to ‘verify’
) The historical increase in the air’s CO content has
anything
improved human nutrition by raising crop yields
) There is no scientific or statistical evidence during the past years
) The increase of the air’s CO_ content has probably
helped lengthen human lifespans since the beginning
of the industrial revolution
) The IPCC alleges that “climate change currently
contributes to the global burden of disease and
premature deaths”
but the evidence shows that
higher temperatures and rising CO levels has helped
global populations
) In May of
the Russian Academy of Sciences
published a report concluding that the Kyoto protocol
has no scientific grounding at all
) The “climategate” scandal pointed to a expensive
public campaign of disinformation and the
denigration of scientists who opposed the belief that
CO emissions were causing climate change
) The head of Britain’s climate change watchdog has
predicted households will need to spend up to

on a full energy efficiency makeover if the govern
ment is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting
carbon emissions
) Wind power is unlikely to be the answer to our energy
needs The wind power industry argues that there
are “no direct subsidies”
but it involves a total subsidy
of as much as per MWh
which falls directly on
electricity consumers This burden will grow in line
with attempts to achieve wind power targets
according to a recent OFGEM report ❙

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The practical camel and its culture

In a
desertifying
world short
T The camel has long had a special place in
the imagination of the West
from the Greek
historian Herodotus telling a story about
Indians using fastrunning camels to defeat
dogsized
maneating ants that guarded
gold ()
through the Three Magi journeying
to Christ’s birth
Lawrence of Arabia and the
Sold for meat
In two researchers
Ilse Köhler
Rollefson and Hanwant Singh Rathore
embarked on a yatra (pilgrimage) by camel

caravan to document the crisis in Rajasthan’s
prime camel breeding areas
desert chic of Camel cigarettes A diary entry summarised the problem:
of water
the “Yesterday we found that another
camels
utilitarian At school you probably learned that the
had been sold for slaughter at a market near
dromedary (shaped like a D) has one hump
camel
and here Selling camels for meat used to be
and the bactrian (shaped like a B) has two (all
unknown in Rajasthan: the animals were far too
the ancient very orderly) But perhaps you don’t know
valuable The males were used to haul carts
and
that in the first week of their foetal life
all
cultures that the females for breeding But the decline in the
baby camels have two humps Or that the
amount of grazing land – lots of new crop fields
depend on it
world’s camel cultures are in crisis Some
irrigated by tubewells around here – means that
camels are threatened with extinction Others
offer a way are being slaughtered as pests Modernity
it’s no longer possible to keep big herds of

females The problem is that irrigated cropping
to use land urbanisation and motorisation are slowly
isn’t sustainable: the groundwater level falls
destroying a way of life that has survived for

too poor to thousands of years
and the fields are left dry” ( )
sustain I recently asked a colleague at London
Rajasthan boasts a major camel fair
a
popular tourist attraction
held annually around
anything else University’s School of Oriental and African
the town of Pushkar Camels are traded in their
Studies (SOAS)
Stefan Sperl
to describe the
thousands However
the fair is now threatened
place of the camel in the Arab imaginative
with decline: India’s camel population has fallen
landscape He said that pre AD
pastoral
By Ed Bedouin poetry (still highly esteemed in the
by more than half since the mids (it was
just over
in )
Emery Arabic and Islamic literary canon) expressed a
deep emotional bond between poet and Conversion of forests and grasslands to
camel Camel journeys in this poetry have other uses
plus damage by climate change
philosophical meanings about the journey makes it difficult for herders to feed their
through life to death – naturally so
because camels This is exacerbated by a recent ban on
in the harsh desert the camel is integral to grazing in national parks
family and community life
The English explorer and conservationist
But now camels are being viewed as John Hare made four trips in the late s into
vermin Last November
under the headline China’s Lop Nor region
into pristine desert
“Town under siege:
camels to be shot”
where he was able to study firsthand the
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation dangers threatening the genetically distinct
reported that trains of camels had invaded the wild Bactrian camel
town of Docker
breaking into houses and
There are only of them left in Mongolia
rooting up water pipes ()
and fewer than in northwest China
and
During Australia’s worst drought on all are under threat In Mongolia this is partly
record
the camels were desperately seeking because of gold and ironore mining – illegal
water They were once a cultural oddity ‘cowboy’ mining and the operations of
(camels were imported in the s to help multinationals such as Rio Tinto
open up the interior
and then left to run wild)
In China it is the result of the illegal activities
but have become a public menace The local
of ‘ninja’ gold miners (polluting freshwater river
government response was to mobilise
resources with deadly potassium cyanide used
helicopters to drive them into the desert
for leaching gold from rock) In Mongolia

the
where they would be shot and left to rot
bactrians were seen as competition for livestock
Representatives of the cattle industry grazing resources
and so farmers shot them
favour the cull
arguing that camels compete
This May
Hare’s Wild Camel Protection
with cattle for sparse grazing
Foundation made an emergency statement
Environmentalists argue for a more that in Mongolia’s Great Gobi nature reserve
humane and productive approach
such as illegal mining pressures are “extremely serious
developing an Australian camel industry on a and out of control”; this terrain is the natural
par with that of cattle () habitat of the wild bactrian
a species now on
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Water is life
In Mali
in Africa’s northwest
desert life
is harsh The Malian group Tinariwen (‘deserts’
in the local Tamazheq language) have brought
their ‘desert blues’ to world public attention
“
at the Festival in the Desert held each year
near Timbuctoo This is no mere romantic
The camel is a
exercise wonder of
Their music makes radical claims for productivity –
camelbased nomadic Tuareg culture and the alive or dead
right to rebellion With the money they earn
from touring
Tinariwen funds research and it provides
community activism in Mali to address access useful
to water resources for desert peoples The
group’s latest album Aman Iman translates as products and
“water is life”
and the video that accompanies services –
it speaks eloquently of the problem ()
the critically endangered list and subject of an meat
milk
intensive conservation programme sponsored The camel is a wonder of productivity –

by the Zoological Society of London alive or dead it provides useful products and skin
hair
But the threat is not only to the wild

services – meat
milk
skin
hair
dung
bone dung
bone
Camel researchers and environmentalists are
bactrians The entire nomadic and camel culture especially interested in dairy production
Camel
of Mongolia is under threat
as encapsulated in researchers
three headline events this year Mongolia had So what is the future? In a recent letter
a traumatic climate event – a period of intense to fellow researchers
Dr Raziq Kakar of the and environ
cold
after a summer drought known locally as Camel Association of Pakistan (CAP) argued mentalists are
dzud Nomadic herders lost more than that international food and agriculture
million animals by the end of March organisations have not done enough to especially
analyse what camel cultures really face Since interested in
On March
Rio Tinto Ltd and the Ivanhoe numbers are falling with alarming speed it is
corporation finalised a deal with the Mongolian crucial to mobilise for the conservation of dairy
government to begin the world’s largest gold
”
and copper mining operation at Oyu Tolgoi
these cultures Unfortunately
camel scientists production
usually concentrate on veterinary related
(Turquoise Mountain) () issues
while breeds
conservation
cultural and
There are other questions of resource socioeconomic problems
production and
allocation
including water resources A map marketing are generally not prioritised
produced by Rio Tinto () shows that the Climate change makes camels a critical and
company plans to sink boreholes into a deep integral part of sustainable development
running aquifer and suck out water to feed its policies The first step is to identify breeds and
gold mining Wary of public relations disasters
practices in communities
and construct
the website claims that this aquifer is divided comprehensive databases Kakar says the CAP
from the surface water (needed by nomadic has joined forces with herders in Pakistan
so
herders) by a thick layer of clay that their real concerns can be identified
and
so that they can be centrally involved in policy
The implication is that water extraction will making ❙
have no effect on local farming But there has
been that drought – so view Rio Tinto’s promo
video of its gold processing plant ( ) and set it
beside newspaper pictures of animals dying () The Histories: Herodotus
ed Donald Lateiner
from thirst and lack of grazing There are issues and GC Macaulay
Barnes and Noble Classics
of corporate moral accountability in sucking out New York

water for gold processing that could better be () ‘Wild camels face mass cull in northern
Australia’
The Guardian
November
used to support the livestock of local herders
❙
() ‘Town under siege:
camels to be shot’
Land previously viable for cattle becomes ABC News

November
( ) ‘A Pilgrimage to Rajasthan’s Camel Herders’
nonviable scrubland in which only camels can pastoralpeoplesorg

February
survive But this has a positive side: Dr Khalid () Mongolian Cabinet
Ivanhoe
Rio Tinto
Finalise
El Bahrawy of Egypt’s Desert Research Centre Oyu Tolgoi Deal
Mongolia Web
April
(DRC) believes camels can be at the cutting () Ibid
edge of projects of sustainable agriculture and ( ) Oyu Tolgoi project
Mongolia (video)
Youtube
() Report to the Camel MiniConference at SOAS
land reclamation in times of ecological crisis London

May
because they can be farmed in those dryland () Tinariwen Aman Iman (video)
Youtube
areas ()
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