Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Sunday, 03 August 2008 03:06 | | 
| 
|
It's not quite the Amazon rainforest, but Britain's tree canopy is a vital asset. Lucy Siegle on why, and how, we should protect it.
In the popular imagination, big trees equal trouble. Among the plethora of problems they supposedly cause is the downright irresponsible shedding of fruit (Islington council has taken umbrage at dangerous pear trees) and conkers (Norwich council found the conker-dropping antics of 20 horse chestnuts intolerable), and leaves that make pavements slippery.
Published on Saturday, 02 August 2008 19:00 | |
|
All true photos.
Published on Friday, 01 August 2008 19:00 | |
|
Jewelchic shares her new earth epiphanies
Published on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:00 | | |
|
Sorry to scare you - and we know this is not in keeping with the aim of this ezine - but sometimes it's important to know what dangers are on the horizon. You might want to call your financial advisor...
Published on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:00 | | |
|
How does a compliant media 'sell' war to its audience? A short talk in three parts by Jake Lynch
Jake Lynch is a former BBC TV news journalist and is now Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), Sydney University, Australia.
Published on Monday, 28 July 2008 19:00 | | |
|
An international team of astronomers has recently
announced a finding that helps to settle a long-standing debate over
the relationship between mass (the amount of matter) and luminosity
(brightness) in galaxies.
The team achieved this result by compiling the largest-ever single collection of 'gravitational lens' galaxies - 70 in all. A gravitational lens is a phenomenon similar to a terrestrial mirage, but it occurs on a scale of many thousands of light-years.
Published on Sunday, 27 July 2008 19:00 | |
|
Now reground yourself with a bit of economics in Funny Stuff...