Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… The End of Cheap Oil - The Consequences Dan Box Tully Wakeman Jeremy Smith | 1st October 2005 News Oil Petrol Fuel Cars Energy Future Oil Fuel International Development Carbon …
In 1956, at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in San Antonio, US geophysicist, M King Hubbert predicted that US oil production – which until then had been constantly increasing – would peak in the early 1970s, and then start to fall.
… Peak Dan Box | 27th September 2005 News Peak Oil Hubbert Oil Energy In 1956, at a meeting of the … M King Hubbert predicted that US oil production – which until then had been …
Can the world survive China’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile?
… | 1st March 2005 News Automobiles China Oil Bicycles Shanghai Companies International Development Oil Pollution Society Archive_265.jpg Can the … produce, the country’s growing thirst for oil is where the real problems of the future …
Warning! Kissable lips may endanger your health. By Pat Thomas
… The pack claims the addition of ‘essential oils’ – but apart from limonene, which can be … natural or synthetic, there are no aromatic oils to be found. More worrying is the … for oleochemicals are vegetable and animal oils and fats. These are then hydrogenated or …
Conventional perfumes are cocktails of synthetic chemicals, many of which have been linked to cancers, birth defects and central nervous system disorders. Time to try something more natural
… Ethical Living Perfume Aromatherapy Essential Oil Synthetic Chemicals Natural Scents … these simple fragrances use natural essential oils to create their beautiful scents. Using … blend of aromas. A single essential oil can be made up of hundreds of different …
Overrun with shower gels that claim to firm and tone, cream baths that turn back the clock and body scrubs that detox and purify, the shelves of the average supermarket and pharmacy could be mistaken for those of a specialist spa or beauty parlour. Modern marketing contrives to make us believe that taking a bath or shower is an ‘experience’ rather than a personal hygiene fundamental, and that bath-time products are indulgent treats with emotional benefits. More often than not we believe it.
… Thomas | 25th April 2005 Ethical Living BATH OIL Bubble Bath Skin Products Hygiene … Harsh detergents can strip away protective oils from sensitive areas of skin and the … same therapeutic effects as natural essential oils and may even be harmful. In addition to …
They’ve a big new sign by the road announcing GROZNY, each man-sized Cyrillic letter fresh and neat. Only the city itself is no longer there.
… from the early 20th century. Here was the Oil Institute, one of the principal such … in the Soviet Union (Grozny was a major oil refining city). Here too was Tolstoy … is that Moscow needs to control the oil in Chechnya and the Baku-Novorossiisk …
The government classifies household paint as hazardous waste. For a toxic-free zone, use natural paint instead.
… principal ingredient is normally linseed oil, which has been used in paint-making for … as d-limonene, which is distilled citrus-peel oil, and turpentine distilled from the … On wood, natural glosses, which are high in oils instead of the plastics used in synthetic …
… or another Nivea – the world’s first water-in-oil cream – has been the most popular and … Nivea is made by international cosmetics and toiletry giant Biersdorf and is sold in some … Lubricant emollient. Also known as mineral oil. A cheap ingredient that produces a …
The government insists that Britain needs to massively expand its airports to cope with a
rapidly growing aviation industry. In actual fact, the sector’s boom years could be over
… cutbacks as they felt the pinch of rising oil prices and passenger numbers already … still dealing with the ever rising price of oil, which is likely to drive ticket prices up … is dependent on cheap fuel when the price of oil is inexorably rising? David West is a …
Skin has a life of its ownthat most of us know nothing about. Getting in touch with its natural rhythms, rather than bullying it with creams and potions, is the most reliable
path to a better complexion
… is highest at midnight and lowest at noon; oil production in the skin is twice as high at … (which may increase colour). Days 21 to 28: Oil secretions increase then drop off …
Old wives' tales or not they'll help your sneezes more than a trip to the chemist
… water and add a couple of drops of eucalyptus oil. Then use a big towel to trap the steam, … but it helps. Instead of the eucalyptus oil, chamomile can also be used. You should be … dried cinnamon bark and a pinch of cardamom. Boil for 10 minutes and leave for another 10 …
People in the US deserve better than living under a system that weeps over spilled oil
and rolls its eyes at our spilled blood.
… living under a system that weeps over spilled oil and rolls its eyes at our spilled blood. … no electricity, running water, or working toilets. Faeces and garbage now pack the upper … living under a system that weeps over spilled oil, and rolls its eyes at our spilled blood. …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… in the extreme: I knew if you put seeds in soil and added water, they grew The best thing … in triumph, tossed them into a pan of water (boil for 10 minutes, no salt) and then ate … the extreme: I knew that if you put seeds in soil and added water, they grew. That was it. …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… Comment 4x4s SUVs Transport Cars Petrol Road Oil Incineration Landfills Community Climate … not shared by everyone). But to be honest, if oil reserves are as low as some are now …
You do if… you live in an area where healthy food is either non-existent or too expensive. This is likely to be the case if your only ‘local’ food shopping option is a supermarket, and you have no good small independent local shops, farmers’ markets or box schemes serving your area.
… 500 grams 1.20 £2.49 Extra virgin olive oil, 500 millilitres £2.99 £2.49 Cane sugar, … Baked beans 59p (420 grams) 59p (415 grams) Toilet tissue, four rolls £1.27 £1.49 (no … sugar, grains, pulses, muesli, salt, herbs, oil and detergents can be bought either in …
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda
… they are almost always over resources: land, oil, water, grazing ground, fishing rights.’ … Besides stemming profligate deforestation, soil erosion and climate change, the movement … met because deforestation was leading to soil loss, to springs drying up, rain patterns …
Receiving the Global Environment Citizen Award in December, US television journalist Bill Moyers warned of the threat posed to the planet by America’s religious right. This is an abridged version of his speech
… and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the … Rapture? And why care about converting from oil to solar when the same God who performed … wants to open the Arctic wildlife refuge to oil drilling and increase drilling in Padre …
If you go down to Barnes today you're in for a big surprise. The sterile concrete of a former reservoir has been turned into a world renowned haven for birds and wildlife. Bridget Nicholls wises a happy fifth birthday to the London Wetland Centre
… in the marshes and scrapes. Because of a ‘no soil or spoil’ restriction, 500,000 cubic metres of six different soil types had to be sorted and re-mixed. At …
Starved of funding by the US embargo and the Soviet Union's collapse, Cuba has a health service to put its rich northern enemy to shame. Much of the responsibility for this medical miracle is due to the island's transformation into a model of environmental
good practice
… practices as nutrient recycling, soil and water management and land-use … abrupt end to 30 years of preferential Soviet oil subsidies, the canny Cubans decided to … Everything from anti-infl ammatory drugs to toilet paper became scarce, and the sick …
Do you like to freshen up your house with a good squirt of air freshener or get your elbow behind some spray polish? Beware, that waft of scent can mask a multitude of harmful ingredients.
… make sure you are using natural essential oils and pump, rather than aerosol, sprays: …
When people take part in the seasonal and cyclical activites of growth they are more able to put things into perspective - to make decisions that are governed by life-sustaining principles over and above financial incentive
… To use the natural fertility of the soil, the natural capacity for growth and … in the form of ever bigger and shinier and oil-consuming vehicles. This is the survival …
Monty Waldin visits La Ferme de la Sansonnière, one of France’s, if not the world’s, most complex Biodynamic vineyards
… then provides slow-release food for the soil in which the vines grow, in contrast to … and cider. Sunflowers were sown for their oil, wheat for flour, and other cereals sown … by slow-release, estate-made compost as a soil conditioner. This article first appeared …