As someone living in an urban area and as a conscious consumer, I consider the most important thing that I can do to promote a Butterfly culture is to consume an Organic, plant-based Vegan diet and I have been quite vocal about my reasons for...
The second most effective step is to go local, to strengthen local communities, to build up the Transition Towns and to grow our organic produce locally.
...Tell them and they will forget. Show them and they may remember. Involve them and they will understand
...The Lighting Project was started to address just the lighting energy needs of the rural poor in a distributed manner so that they don't have to depend upon kerosene and other fuels for that purpose.
...Worldwide, nearly 3 billion people use some form of biomass for cooking, burning up an estimated 1.5 billion tons of firewood annually
...In a small village called Karech in Rajasthan, India, Rayakbai walks 3 kilometers uphill every day to collect firewood for her family.
...Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. But anybody can start today and make a new ending
...Cultural transformations are primarily led by youth, since adults and senior citizens are usually too habituated to change easily.
...In the Vedic view, our sense of oneness with the whole can occur through four main pathways: through our intellect via reasoning (Gnana Yoga), through our emotions, primarily in the form of love and devotion (Bhakti Yoga), through our actions (Karma Yoga) and through meditation...
It would be amazing if we all awakened and the whole world suddenly became enlightened.
...All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident
...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
...The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep
...A scientific model has suggested that society will collapse in less than three decades due to catastrophic food shortages if policies do not change...
A Government of India approved Cook Stove Testing Center has confirmed that the Mewar Angithi, a $1 device, really does turn a traditional stove (chula) into one of the best high efficiency cook stoves on the market.
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The controlled use of fire, and more specifically cooking, is a fundamentally human creation that has allowed us to become who we are, an ingenious tool-wielding species that dominates over all other species on Earth. And yet, our infatuation with fire, and specifically cooking, is...
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Stories about smaller environmental problems can distract us from the slow-motion calamity that will eventually threaten every living being...