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I think that the single largest health-related issue for any group is childbirth. Apart from antibiotics, I think that safe births is the area where modern medicine are saving the largest number of lives. This is a major issue to adress for any low-tech society. Preserve the knowledge and organize ...

Saw this on Dragon's Den a few weeks ago. The guy got a complete roasting, and didn't help himself by being a bit EcoFascist. Kinda stunned you thought he was an 'ecofascist' - I thought he was really gentle, and liked him for not understanding that the dragons are only interested in making a quick...

What a great site - thanks for posting this

hatchelt wrote:Sorry Snow, I can't see the Venezuelan people being beaten into submission like that. I also can't see the world just sitting back and watching that happen. Not when it's so blantant.

Remember what happened to Nicaragua...?

What we do is keep some old 6-pint milk bottles by the toilet, full of rain water (if there's enough) or bath water with a spot of bleach added. If you've just had a pee, then pouring half the bottle down seems to be sufficient, which is about 1/5 of the water used in a flush I think. It's a bit la...

Concerns about health care in the future seem to crop up regularly in this forum so I thought I?d put together a few thoughts and suggestions which hopefully people will find helpful. First up get some basic first aid training . If you?re employed by a large firm find out if you can train as a ?firs...

Bush and Cheney are fundamentalists - Bible literalists. Their worldview is dominated by dogma, as opposed to evidence and pragmatism, which forces them into a strange sort of doublethink - science and technology are accepted where they are useful but rejected where they contradict fundi Christian ...

Ballard wrote: It isn't perfect, but it's close...

Whaddya mean it's not perfect? It's great! Come on guys - quit the negative vibes...

Excellent! What a brilliant company - I've been wanting to do something like this but I'm neither an engineer nor a business person so I'm really pleased somebody has. (Nice website Sky!)

This film is absolutely brilliant - very positive and very inspiring. I loved the clever solutions Cubans have come up with to problems - not enough buses? no problemo, turn trucks into long ones carrying 200 people...can't carry water up ten flights of stairs to your flat? that's ok, we'll winch it...

Check out this page...

www.energy4all.co.uk/projects.php

...for chances for people in Cumbria, Aberdeenshire, the Fens, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire to own shares in local windfarms

Great! Looking forward to seeing it

I used to think like that, but with knowing more history I do not any longer. To me it's like saying a medical problem is in the symptom rather than the cause.... ...In short I would argue that the fear of "ID cards ameliorating genocide" is an unfounded one; history demonstrates that gen...

If we were in the 70's yes the we can go softly, softly, we have much time. My memory of the 70s was that it seemed pretty important then to reduce our dependance on fossil fuels and halt the growing wastefulness, but then Thatcher arrived and gave us the 80s and 90s... Too bad cos back in the 70s ...