Fizz that Doesn’t Fizzle Out – Soft Drinks Are Hard on Your Body
Soft drinks are mainly soda. Laced with cocaine and caffeine, in the early days, today they contain lindane, DDT, malathion and chlorpyrifos, which cause cancer, […]
Sustainability
Toxic Toys – No Child’s Play
Toys once stimulated a child’s education, creativity, laughter and fun and left the legacy of a long and healthy life. Today, they may well leave […]
Deodorants – Do we need them?
Using deodorants on a regular basis might be increasingly considered a cultural norm but, according to a new research study, as many as 78 percent […]
Chemicals in Medicines
Do we know enough about chemicals in drugs prescribed to us – especially for non-life threatening and chronic illnesses? Age-old systems of medicine focused on […]
Eating Dirt Does No Harm
The fear of germs has made us think of mud as dirt. And to get rid of dirt, we use a huge number of chemicals […]
Issue 23: Mindful Travel
Editorial: Mindful Travel The Earth is bountiful and incredibly beautiful – beckoning to us to climb those mountains, watch wildlife at dawn, relax on that beach […]
Pilgrim or Tourist
Every act of travel is a journey into an intimate landscape, but that response of intimacy is earthed in the pilgrim, not in the tourist, […]
Why is Flying Out of the Sustainability Discussion?
Air travel entails 600 percent higher CO2 emissions and double the primary energy use of travelling by train or car. Yet the heavy subsidies for […]
Armchair TRAVEL
Do we really need sacred places? In this age when we are being called to revere all the Earth, before it’s too late, should we […]
Why is Food allowed to Travel across Continents? Why not popularise local products and local markets?
Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the country from […]