Unbearable Costs + Consequences of Consumerism

This week a friend sent me the link to a new online film by an expert on the materials economy and it took me a few days to click on it. I finally did because I wanted to clean up my email in-box, nothing more noble. Now I want to clean up my […]

Breast is best

An interesting piece of information has presented itself on 2 fronts this week. I’ve just finished watching David Attenborough’s series “Planet Earth” and am also reading “The One Hundred Year Lie” by Randall Fitzgerald. Both are addressing the fine line we and our planet are riding though from different perspectives.
“Planet Earth” is a glimpse at the […]

Fluorescent lighting to save the world?

The British government has announced it is phasing out incandescent light bulbs by 2011 in favor of largely fluorescent energy saving tubes.  While these tubes save 75% of the energy used by standard bulbs and thus greatly reduce the greenhouse gas effects of electricity usage this is not the only environmental or health issue to […]

A smoking gun

 Here’s some good news from the UK. Last year England joined the growing number of european countries banning smoking in public places, especially in restaurants and bars. 
The ban corresponded, according to this survey, with over 150,000 people quitting smoking. If you want to have a positive impact on the health of your people and environment this is […]

Mildly Toxic?

I took this test to find out how toxic I was.  Mildly toxic was the verdict although I do my best to avoid all things synthetic in our environment.
This got me thinking, I work as a health professional, have access to top quality products and information and pride myself on practicing what I preach.  Most of […]

Green Festival

After being in Santa Barbara, CA, for about a week we wanted to explore more of the US west coast. We decided to rent a car and drive to Nevada, Arizona and back to California to be in San Francisco for the Green Festival.
Driving through the different states from town to town was a really […]

Green Travelling vs Globalisation

It’s hard to travel without your pockets full of money, but at the same time it can be an adventure.
You constantly have to be creative in the way you travel - that means being creative about what to eat, were to sleep and how to get from one place to another. Another challenge is […]

Lost Valley/Save our planet/The Secret and The Corporation

Lost Valley, October 27
Last day in Lost Valley and tomorrow we say our goodbyes. Living in the woods for a month is now over and we have new places to explore.
The weather here in Lost Valley changed a lot while we’ve been here. From being very cold to be quite hot to very windy. People […]

Lost Valley/Spiral Dynamics and Permaculture Books

Lost Valley, October 19th.
The days go by so fast that there that there doesn’t seem to be any time to write. There is always something going on during the day and in the afternoon. Last night we went to a spiral dynamics discussion in the classroom, lead by one of the teachers in the Permaculture […]

Permaculture and EcoVillage Design Course in Lost Valley…(Intro)

So, finally we made it to Lost Valley Oregon/Dextor in the US, sent by The LifeCo
to document Permaculture, sustainable living, ecovillage design and other interesting things we see or hear along the way.
We are:
Yuri Radomisli: Massage Therapist and Permaculture student.
Dilek Turan: Photographer and reporter.
It was a long journey; four airplanes, a bus and a train. […]