This year in Hungary the Association of Conscious Consumers (ACC) issued a new 12-point paragraph to such customers on the ‘Buy Nothing Day’.
This year in Hungary the Association of Conscious Consumers (ACC) issued a new 12-point paragraph to such customers on the ‘Buy Nothing Day’.
At the end of September this year our colleagues participated in a conference in the fascinating vicinity of picturesque Toscana, Italy. The conference that was entitled Peace – Responsibility for Future (Pace Responsibilitá per il futuro) addressed the practical aspects of ethics, economics and peace. The lecturers approached the subject from different perspectives and experiences.
A short film on a myth in relation to industrial food production. One which is challenging the very core of industrial agriculture, its raison d’être. Watch it and answer the question to yourself. Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?
Enthused by success from last year we organized the Pillars of Sustainability Seminar this September. The participants came from various countries just like a year ago when attendees came for the adult learners’ workshop, which was subsidized by the Tempus Foundation, i.e. the Hungarian representative of European Commission. This seminar in September was officially advertized […]
According to a Swedish research group that examined the correlation of food supply and fresh water resources, in future we cannot afford ourselves to consume as much meat as we do nowadays. In the oncoming forty years we have to give up the habit of eating animal-based produce, because water needs of livestock-farming is multiple […]
Credits invite everyone to watch the recently finished Nature’s IQ. In New York the first run of the movie began a week ago. order cialis overnight The one-hour long film is an American and Hungarian joint production, which combines the style of nature films and documentaries.
The ecological overshoot day is an actual day in the calendar when humanity exceeds the boundaries of its annual consumption rate in relation to the Earth’s biocapacity, i. e. uses up all the available energy resources, which can be utilized without exploitation of our planet. We speak of unsustainability when a given territory (the Earth) […]
In Krishna Valley residents use a traditional way to clean wheat. The thresher works by ox-power and its efficiency rivals that of some of modern machines.
Krishna Valley has numerous twin farms all around the world (that have been established by devotees of Krishna and fall under the aegis of ISKCON). Not long ago we had the opportunity to visit such an initiative in Spain, a farming community close to Madrid about 6 kilometres from Brihuega, within the scope of a […]
Trimming and shaping bales Before plastering it is advisable and very satisfying to trim the bales. Removing any loose straws, ‘steps’ between neighbouring bales and ridges between folded ‘packs’ in the bales will all make the plastering process easier and more economical as well as giving a smoother end result.