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The ‘Green Revolution’ Goes To Africa – another recipe for disaster?
An Interview with Roy Steiner, Senior Program Manager, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
On the 12th of September, 2006, the…
Top 12 Reasons to Buy Local
1. Freshness
Locally-grown organic fruits and vegetables are usually harvested within 24 hours of being purchased by the…
Going Local
Today’s mounting social and ecological crises demand responses that are broad, deep, and strategic. Given the widespread destruction…
Healing Birth, Healing The Earth
Birth, She is dying... This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for our ancestors, has been stripped of Her…
You and Me Against the World
As I researched and wrote Naked Motherhood and its subsequent thesis, I oscillated between believing I was articulating the experiences of a silent…
The Magical Child, an excerpt
Introduction by Anna Jahns
Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questions the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our…
The 21st Century Tribe as a Family Support Network
In order to understand the relevance of the Tribe in the 21st Century it first has to be put into a personal context. Throughout history, people have…
Eating By Colour: a New Approach to Food
As a psychologist working with children and adults with eating problems I hear two frequently asked questions: “what am I supposed to…
Deep Downshifting – living a life of no regrets
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to…
The Intelligence of the Heart
Last month I attended a summit hosted by the aTLC (Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children - www.atlc.org ) in California and had the…