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Blowin in the Wind: A film review

Blowin’ in the Wind, by award winning filmmaker David Bradbury and co-producer Peter Scott is a wake-up film that exposes the genocidal catastrophe of the use of depleted uranium in weapons. Fro read more...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a review

“Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel World Bank, US government, and other foreign ‘aid’ funds into the read more...

Gaslands, the film

Gaslands is an American film about the the poisoning of water systems that occurs with the drilling process for natural gas. Some 900 chemicals, some proprietary (meaning the composition of chemical read more...

Losing the plot and loving it

Everything I need to know about life I can learn from Michael Leunig. I met the man on his recent visit to Byron Bay and his teapot philosophy made more sense than ever before. With confidence I can read more...

Natural capitalism

Natural capitalism: A book review If you get into a conversation about sustainability, and the talk turns to economic issues, someone is probably going to mention a book called Natural Capitalism: read more...

The Byron Bay Writers Festival, 2010

I attended the Byron Bay Writers Festival last weekend (Aug 7-9) while there were elements to it that fell flat for me, I felt it was worth attending. For the first two days I was somewhat disappo read more...

The Dreaming 1

I was quite determined to go to the inaugural Dreaming festival held over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, 2005, run by the Queensland Folk Federation at the Woodford festival site. I brushed off the read more...

The Dreaming Festival 09

I have just come back from The Dreaming, Australia's international Indigenous festival held over the Queen's birthday weekend in June at the Woodford site in SE Queensland. It was just fabulous hang read more...

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The Future of Food

The Future of Food is a brilliant discussion of genetically engineered food. We travel from the vast plains of the US to Canada, to Percy Schmeiser who Monsanto took to court (and won!) because some read more...

The Hoffman Process - a review

'Everyone is guilty and nobody is to blame' I started doing personal growth workshops in 1983, and along the way have spent more than a year of my life in group rooms. I have done massage groups: I read more...

The Hoffman Process, A month on

When I first came out of the Process I felt very solid though not nearly as high as when I have come out of other workshops. I did not see this as a bad thing, more a reflection of the nature of the read more...