Health
Healing the Nervous System with Yoga
Shoulders are tight and slouched, mind is frazzled and nervous system is on the fritz. Day to day life makes us stressed, whether its challenges in the workplace, at home, in relationship, with health, or just the daily grind of a fast paced culture of go go go and push and pull. The reality is that stress is a factor in most people's lives, however it shows up. It's not just something that rears its head during intense life events or drastic change. It's something that has become pervasive in our society (Stats Canada says work absenteeism due to stress has increased by over 300 per cent since 1995). There are also many studies revealing the links between stress, and health in body and in mind, with 75 to 90 per cent of all visits to the doctor being for stress-related complaints, according to the American Institute of Stress. In other words, we have a lot of healing to do individually, and culturally. So how do we do this healing? There are many paths of healing for the nervous...
Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment
Over the 20 years of the commercialization of GMOs, not only have they failed to deliver higher yields as promised, but according to numerous reports, they have also led to serious destruction of the environment through causing increased use of toxic chemicals, and...
Remaking the Way We Make Things
An increasing number of engineers, architects, landscapers, chemists and various other professionals from every walk of life are beginning to see real solutions to our most pressing “environmental” problems (or what I like to call “massive life support system that...
8 Tips for Increasing Your Resilience
In my family we call being prepared for inevitable economic and environmental instability “resilience”. We’ve been inspired largely by the concept of Permaculture, which is a design system based on ecological principles for designing resilient, locally based,...
