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http://www.ionline.pt/conteudo/66779-mark-boyle-o-economista-que-vive-sem-gastar-um-tostao
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quarta-feira, 30 de junho de 2010
sexta-feira, 11 de junho de 2010
WORLD HUNGER
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Biotechnology proponents have argued repeatedly that GM seeds are crucial to feed the world, using the same flawed reasoning that was advanced for decades by the proponents of the Green Revolution. Conventional food production, they maintain, will not keep pace with the growing world population. Monsanto's ads proclaimed in 1998: “Worrying about starving future generations won't feed them. Food biotechnology will.” As agroecologists Miguel Altieri and Peter Rosset point out, this argument is based on two erroneous assumptions. The first is that world hunger is caused by a global shortage of food; the second is that genetic engineering is the only way to increase food production.
In their classic study, World Hunger: Twelve Myths, development specialists Frances Moore Lappé and her colleagues at the Institute for Food and Development Policy gave a detailed account of world food production that surprised many readers. They showed that abundance, not scarcity, best describes the food supply in today's world. During the past three decades, increases in global food production have outstripped world population growth per 16 per cent.
The root causes of hunger around the world are unrelated to food production. They are poverty, inequality and lack access to food and land. People go hungry because the means to produce and distribute food are controlled by the rich and powerful: world hunger is not a technical but a political problem.
in “The Hidden Connections”, by Fritjof Capra
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Biotechnology proponents have argued repeatedly that GM seeds are crucial to feed the world, using the same flawed reasoning that was advanced for decades by the proponents of the Green Revolution. Conventional food production, they maintain, will not keep pace with the growing world population. Monsanto's ads proclaimed in 1998: “Worrying about starving future generations won't feed them. Food biotechnology will.” As agroecologists Miguel Altieri and Peter Rosset point out, this argument is based on two erroneous assumptions. The first is that world hunger is caused by a global shortage of food; the second is that genetic engineering is the only way to increase food production.
In their classic study, World Hunger: Twelve Myths, development specialists Frances Moore Lappé and her colleagues at the Institute for Food and Development Policy gave a detailed account of world food production that surprised many readers. They showed that abundance, not scarcity, best describes the food supply in today's world. During the past three decades, increases in global food production have outstripped world population growth per 16 per cent.
The root causes of hunger around the world are unrelated to food production. They are poverty, inequality and lack access to food and land. People go hungry because the means to produce and distribute food are controlled by the rich and powerful: world hunger is not a technical but a political problem.
in “The Hidden Connections”, by Fritjof Capra
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OUR HEALTH
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depends upon the purity of the air we breathe and the water we drink, and it depends on the health of the soil from which our food is produced.
In the coming decades the survival of the humanity will depend on our ecological literacy – our ability to understand the basic principles of ecology and to live accordingly.
www.ecoliteracy.org
in “The Hidden Connections”, by Fritjof Capra
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depends upon the purity of the air we breathe and the water we drink, and it depends on the health of the soil from which our food is produced.
In the coming decades the survival of the humanity will depend on our ecological literacy – our ability to understand the basic principles of ecology and to live accordingly.
www.ecoliteracy.org
in “The Hidden Connections”, by Fritjof Capra
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SUSTAINABILITY
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Humankind has the ability to achieve sustainable development
– THAT IS ... to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
in “The Hidden Connections”, by Fritjof Capra
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Humankind has the ability to achieve sustainable development
– THAT IS ... to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
in “The Hidden Connections”, by Fritjof Capra
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quarta-feira, 9 de junho de 2010
sábado, 5 de junho de 2010
Yoga Retreat with Pedro Kupfer
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It was a pleasure to hear the teachings of Pedro Kupfer, or should I say - the teachings of yoga, through him. As my teacher Shan Anand, Pedro Kupfer takes his studies and practice seriously, without making up new, ego centered, asanas or philosophies.
These teachers see and understand how deep and rich the teachings of the Vedas, Upanishads and other texts with more than 1.000 years old are. The information of these texts is not packaged in a modern kind of way, where everything must be prepared to be quickly consumed. These texts were written in a time when there was actually time - to think, to study, to observe, to reflect, to approach the subject of the meaning of life.
Today we are running faster and faster, conditioned to react, instead of acting. We need time to stop, to think, to clear our mind about our purpose and goals, only then can we get somewhere. But movements SLOW DOWN are appearing, as we cannot go faster eternally.
Thank you Pedro, thank you Shan, and thank you to all the people in the Portuguese yoga community I have been fortunate to meet.
As Pedro says, this community dedicates itself to yoga with love and the will to share, and not only business oriented. I am pleased to know many yoga teachers that even making a very small profit, work hard in order to take yoga to many around them.
For last, I would like to thank Pedro Kupfer and the YogaPro team for making a great deal of quality resources on yoga available to everyone, in http://www.yoga.pro.br (in portuguese only)
It was a pleasure to hear the teachings of Pedro Kupfer, or should I say - the teachings of yoga, through him. As my teacher Shan Anand, Pedro Kupfer takes his studies and practice seriously, without making up new, ego centered, asanas or philosophies.
These teachers see and understand how deep and rich the teachings of the Vedas, Upanishads and other texts with more than 1.000 years old are. The information of these texts is not packaged in a modern kind of way, where everything must be prepared to be quickly consumed. These texts were written in a time when there was actually time - to think, to study, to observe, to reflect, to approach the subject of the meaning of life.
Today we are running faster and faster, conditioned to react, instead of acting. We need time to stop, to think, to clear our mind about our purpose and goals, only then can we get somewhere. But movements SLOW DOWN are appearing, as we cannot go faster eternally.
Thank you Pedro, thank you Shan, and thank you to all the people in the Portuguese yoga community I have been fortunate to meet.
As Pedro says, this community dedicates itself to yoga with love and the will to share, and not only business oriented. I am pleased to know many yoga teachers that even making a very small profit, work hard in order to take yoga to many around them.
For last, I would like to thank Pedro Kupfer and the YogaPro team for making a great deal of quality resources on yoga available to everyone, in http://www.yoga.pro.br (in portuguese only)
terça-feira, 18 de maio de 2010
BE SANE, BE STRONG, BE FREE
Gil Scott-Heron
Its just what I want to say, in a world where there is thousands or millions of people hooked on legal drugs, going crazy, loosing their sanity, loosing their happiness, being kept alive by doctors who prescribe with no sense whatsoever.
Just Today sitting on a bus from Coimbra ... got talking with a lady ... grandmother already, sad person, started talking about all her problems and illnesses and showing me the pills she was taking. We kept on talking and she does realize she is hooked and these drugs are no better than the illegal drugs. So few moments of happiness followed by anxieties and feelings of depression. And we kept on talking ... telling her stories of people who made it ... and that it is possible, if you believe in it, if you take your life in your hands.
People do want to deliver themselves to whomever they want to trust and they deposit ones' life into a doctor's hands.
From close relationships with several people I have come to understand that these pills never cure you, they just shut you down.
WAKE UP! YOU GOT A LIFE TO LIVE!
There are always two sides to things and never an absolute reality. You create your own reality. Take life in your hands. Take full responsibility for your happiness. And believe ...
SO PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THINGS.
Take this lady on the bus, a wonderful husband that supports her, several children and grandchildren that she loves, nevertheless she highlights only problems. She cant put her attention to the huge positive side of her life. And by selecting only the negative aspects of her life she creates a life of misery and depression to herself.
NOBODY EVER SAID IT WOULD BE EASY.
Every single day we are building our reality, making choices ... and the more you are conscious of this process, of the possibility of creating your own life ... then the more you take life in your hands and make happiness happen.
Have you ever question yourself why do some people ... that have so many problems can still laugh, while others with such an easy life keep on mourning? Well thats just because some people see the positive side of life, while others dont.
Your mind is an amazing and a complicated thing. STOP! OBSERVE YOURSELF! PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE USEFUL THOUGHTS, on those thoughts that have the potential to sustain a healthy and enduring happiness. Of course there will always be hard times, there will always be sad times, but do not get hooked on them, and mainly ... do not get hooked on drugs, being them legal or illegal.
BE SANE, BE STRONG, BE FREE
Its just what I want to say, in a world where there is thousands or millions of people hooked on legal drugs, going crazy, loosing their sanity, loosing their happiness, being kept alive by doctors who prescribe with no sense whatsoever.
Just Today sitting on a bus from Coimbra ... got talking with a lady ... grandmother already, sad person, started talking about all her problems and illnesses and showing me the pills she was taking. We kept on talking and she does realize she is hooked and these drugs are no better than the illegal drugs. So few moments of happiness followed by anxieties and feelings of depression. And we kept on talking ... telling her stories of people who made it ... and that it is possible, if you believe in it, if you take your life in your hands.
People do want to deliver themselves to whomever they want to trust and they deposit ones' life into a doctor's hands.
From close relationships with several people I have come to understand that these pills never cure you, they just shut you down.
WAKE UP! YOU GOT A LIFE TO LIVE!
There are always two sides to things and never an absolute reality. You create your own reality. Take life in your hands. Take full responsibility for your happiness. And believe ...
SO PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THINGS.
Take this lady on the bus, a wonderful husband that supports her, several children and grandchildren that she loves, nevertheless she highlights only problems. She cant put her attention to the huge positive side of her life. And by selecting only the negative aspects of her life she creates a life of misery and depression to herself.
NOBODY EVER SAID IT WOULD BE EASY.
Every single day we are building our reality, making choices ... and the more you are conscious of this process, of the possibility of creating your own life ... then the more you take life in your hands and make happiness happen.
Have you ever question yourself why do some people ... that have so many problems can still laugh, while others with such an easy life keep on mourning? Well thats just because some people see the positive side of life, while others dont.
Your mind is an amazing and a complicated thing. STOP! OBSERVE YOURSELF! PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE USEFUL THOUGHTS, on those thoughts that have the potential to sustain a healthy and enduring happiness. Of course there will always be hard times, there will always be sad times, but do not get hooked on them, and mainly ... do not get hooked on drugs, being them legal or illegal.
BE SANE, BE STRONG, BE FREE
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