Personal Development, Shamanism and Self Help

Raymond Blanc calls on the nation to GO Organic

Posted by Ina Woolcott

World–renowned chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc has joined forces with Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, to launch ‘Go Organic’ – an initiative designed to encourage more people to grow, cook and eat organic food, while at the same time supporting the work of Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library (HSL) in its battle to conserve rare vegetable varieties under threat of extinction.

People can Go Organic by hosting a sponsored dinner or lunch for friends and family where the menu is made up, in part, of organic ingredients. The guests will then be encouraged to make a donation that will be passed on to Garden Organic to fund the work of its Heritage Seed Library, a unique collection which aims to protect traditional varieties of vegetables that are disappearing rapidly. To date, Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library has saved 800 varieties of vegetable from the verge of extinction but more needs to be done to conserve threatened varieties from around the world. Earlier this year, experts from Garden Organic highlighted that 98 per cent of vegetable varieties have vanished over the last 100 years. They fear that if something isn’t done to stop this trend, then more varieties will disappear, threatening food security.

Anyone interested in taking part can register online at:
www.gardenorganic.org.uk/goorganic or call 02476 303517. The registration pack contains everything needed to set up a Go Organic meal, with invitations, sponsorship forms, posters and special recipes and growing advice from Garden Organic and Raymond Blanc.

For more information contact James Ashe or Richard Postins at Prova PR on 01926 776900 or email: jamesa@provapr.co.uk

Limpy - Killing the Wolves Again

Posted by Viola Woolcott

It has been a huge success to bring back the wolves to the Rockies. But what happened? Why is it allowed to gun them down again????

Limpy is one of the most popular wolves in the valley, known to wildlife biologists as 253M, won the affectionate nickname Limpy, because of a pronounced limp from an injury.

This year, on Feb. 27, given the reintroduction’s success, the Bush administration removed the gray wolves of the northern Rockies from the federal Endangered Species List. It’s now legal to shoot a wolf in more than 85 percent of the state of Wyoming, even if the wolf being shot has no history of preying on livestock or domestic animals.

On March 28, the day that new state wolf policies went into effect, a hunter stationed near elk feeding grounds in Daniel, Wyo., shot and killed Limpy. In the parlance of wolf management, Limpy was a “clean” wolf who’d never been known to prey on livestock or domestic animals.

Limpy is not the only victim. In the past two months, wolf-hunting parties in Wyoming have … to read the whole article please click on the link

Limpy is one of the most popular wolves in the valley, known to wildlife biologists as 253M, won the affectionate nickname Limpy, because of a pronounced limp from an injury.

Imagine Performed Live By John Lennon

Imagine - John Lennon - A powerful, moving song.

Need I say more, im sure most of you are familiar with it. Enjoy and think about the implications Lennon’s words have and what a long lasting impression he made on the entire world.

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one