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WELCOME TO THE PSBUDDHIST ARTICLES AREA
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This area is a new venture allowing PSBuddhist Network members to publish their own articles directly to the website. |
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BodhiTrust October News
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Dear Bodhi Trust supporters
Some good news to report: we have received the funding we applied for to conduct a feasibility study, which should lead us a substantial step
further towards the realisation of our vision for a Buddhist eco village.
With much metta
Ratnadevi
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Many Eco and Buddhist Books second hand on abebooks.com
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This is a brief description of the Abebooks.com website and what can be found there |
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the P.S… mandala of food awareness
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Eating is the most fundamental way in which we relate to other life forms.
Although our pattern of purchasing and consumption is incredibly complex, we can make choices about the degree to which our food is a result of (and causes) violence and suffering.
In the global economy, our actions have consequences which are often out of sight and far away. Bewilderment and indifference cannot be the answer - our practice of mindfulness needs to be supplemented with education.
To address the complexity of the situation, the P.S... group is proposing an 8-fold Mandala of Considerations for Food Awareness.
Read this to see what they are… |
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book review of High Tide - News from a Warming World
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Apocalypse soon
Saturday April 24, 2004 - The Guardian
Michael Meacher appreciates Mark Lynas' timely warning against ignoring the consequences of climate change, High Tide
Extract: (Read the full article)
If you are among those who think climate change is an uncertain, remote issue over which scientists are unsure, politicians talk endlessly to little effect, and mere individuals have no power at all, this book may be for you.
Mark Lynas has abandoned the scientific disputes and the political wrangling, and spent three years travelling to find out from ordinary people how massive changes to the climate are devastating their lives, not in the future, but now.
He recounts in meticulous detail the realities of life for indigenous Alaskans as the ice melts and their food supply disappears, Tuvaluan fishermen as their islands slip beneath the waves, Mongolian herders faced with blinding sandstorms, Peruvian cities facing the decimation of their water supply as a result of fast-retreating glaciers, Caribbean victims of hurricanes of unprecedented violence, and British families flooded out by the worst river eruptions in a century.
There are myriad other examples. But, as he says, all the impacts he describes are just the first whispers of the hurricane of future climate change bearing down on us. Like the canary in the coal-mine, those living closest to the land - the Eskimos in Alaska and the Pacific islanders - have been the first to notice. But they won't be alone for long.
Read the full article at:
High Tide: News from a Warming World
by Mark Lynas
304pp, Flamingo, £16.99
Available from amazon.co.uk
and from AbeBooks (advanced book exchange) |
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