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  A short review can’t do justice to the amount of research that has gone into this book. Desrochers and his wife Shimizu have gone all out to make their case for the ‘globavore’ diet; to ground it in their interpretation of the science (there are 46 pages of references) and to make it look […]

We interfere with nature at our peril. Even when we do it with the best intentions. I could be talking about genetic modification. The notion of building better plants by fooling around, in what is actually a very crude way, with life’s building blocks is certainly a good example. But I was actually thinking of […]

The first thing a person usually asks when they consider using herbal medicine or taking supplements for the first time is – “Is it safe?” It’s a reasonable question, and the answer, invariably, is yes. Nevertheless there are amongst us anti-anything-remotely-alternative pundits who make a tidy living out disinformation campaigns (lies to you and me) that […]

People eat it, animals eat it, but just how ‘safe’ is safe when it comes to GM foods? Globally our exposure to GM organisms via food is unquantifiable. In the UK you can’t buy GM foods in the supermarket, but conventionally reared livestock are largely reared on GM feed. As the recent news story that […]

There’s good news and there’s bad news. If you followed the Rio+20 headlines last week and the autopsies of that particular debacle, you’ll already know the bad news. The meeting of global ‘leaders’ was ostensibly to mark 20 years since the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and to discuss how to better […]

This week the Rio +20 Summit on Sustainable Development , commemorating the 20th anniversary of the first “Earth Summit”  gets under way. In twenty years we’ve witnessed politicians, bureaucrats, campaigners and NGOs gathering together in  meeting after meeting in glamorous cities and resorts around the world to discuss what to do about the problems of […]

If one story struck a chord with me this week it was a report from the University of Haifa in Jerusalem which revealed that doctors in the Europe, the UK and Israel are getting little or no training in environmental illness. Our website is dedicated to natural health – that means choosing natural methods where […]

It was probably too much to hope for. The Take the Flour Back protesters never got near the fields of experimental GM wheat growing behind high fences at the Rothamstead research facility. The hinted at aim of the protest – to uproot the GM crop – while not legal, had the laudable aim of preventing […]

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  A former Editor of Surfing magazine and an experienced surfer, Evan Slater has ridden many of the waves he writes about in this compelling photographic essay, which gives us a glimpse of the many and varied moods of ocean. While the brief text is thoughtful, even educational in places, this is not a book […]