‘The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.’ Ekhart Tolle shares some ideas on how we can free ourselves from unhappiness by living in the present moment

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'Every one of us can make a contribution,' says Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. 'And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution.' 

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Growing our own food will soon become a necessity, argues Julia Stephenson

Rosie Boycott and the National Trust are my heroes this week. In her capacity as Chairman of London Food, Rosie is successfully encouraging large organisations such as British Waterways to turn over their unused land for food production, while the National Trust is creating up to 1000 allotments to encourage us to grow our own vegetables.

‘For lovely eyes’, recommended Audrey Hepburn, ‘seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.’ True beauty, suggests David Servan-Schrieber, comes from within.

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Ory Okolloh, is one of Africa’s most powerful online activists and legal minds. Born into a poor family who could barely afford to pay her school fee’s she graduated from Harvard Law School Kenya to found Mzalendo.com – a ‘watchblog’ that demands accountability from Kenyan MP’s by monitoring what they do, writes Geraldine Royds.