| Stoned to death - more>> |
 A recent NED (Non Executive Directors) article “Stoned in the board room” (www.ned.co.uk/82) highlighted a developing phenomenon of premium marijuana use amongst senior business people. This is the latest a long line of executive ‘recreational anesthetics’ - from the now out dated board room booze cabinet to the cocaine craze of the 90’s.
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| Authentic Cycling - more>> |
 Cycling has given me so much in my journey that I would like to dedicate some time to an exploration of the properties of cycling that have been so valuable to me. I am not suggesting that cycling is THE route to authenticity and meaning, what I am suggesting is that there are lessons to be learned everywhere and that I happened to learn many from cycling.
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| Out of the Shadows - more>> |
 Nurtured by the calm spirit of the Matara Center, Louise Tickle experiments with authentic transformation in an article written for September’s New Consumer (newconsumer.org)
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| A Very Beautiful Place - more>> |
Huddinge, in Greater Stockholm, is the first municipality in Sweden to get its own urban walking map. The map will combat increased sedentary living and growing waistlines by encouraging people to get out and walk more. And for planners, highlight the importance of walking as environmentally friendly transport. Hopefully, Huddinge’s 89,000 inhabitants and planning departments will be in better shape and better prepared to meet the effects of rising fuel costs as oil becomes scarcer |
| Authentic Life - more>> |
 The first edition of Authentic Life is out now. The lovely people at New Consumer magazine (www.newconsumer.org) are incubating it, giving it some love so it stands a chance out there in the big wide world of media. Authentic Life is ushering in a whole lot of new positive energy for Kat Byles. Maybe it will for you too?
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| Higher Nature - more>> |
‘We’re giving people the tools for optimum health’. That ‘s how Celia Wright, joint managing director of the food supplements company, Higher Nature, describes her business, which now has 100,000 regular customers. She and her husband Brian, her co-managing director, haven’t touched an aspirin or taken antibiotics in 30years. |
| Lilac Bay – an Authentic Business - more>> |
I used to run my own recruitment company. Up until 18 months ago I was working sixty hour weeks. I was physically and emotionally drained most of the time, running on empty and feeling largely indifferent about work and life generally.
Today I run a business that I am both passionate about and inspired by. Lilac Bay provides health and fitness services to businesses in the Thames Valley to help create a healthier and more productive work-force. I love the fact that what I do today has such a positive impact on the people who use its services.
Let me tell you about what led me to such a dramatic change of career. |
| Industrial Hemp - an alternative to our problems? - more>> |
If someone told you that there is a plant which offers a 100% renewable and environmentally superior alternative to petrol or diesel, wood pulp in paper, oil based plastic, cotton and can also be used to make dietary supplements, foods, drinks and medicinal creams you might wonder why you had not heard about it before - Paul Benhaim explains. |
| The Experience of Anni Dixon - more>> |
Anni Dixon's story is a remarkable homage to strength of character, perseverance and bio diverstity. It is a story of natural healing of degenerative disease and environmental pollution. |
| Fit for change - more>> |
Change is over, right? It went out of fashion with all that "e" stuff right?
Actually no.
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
W. Edwards Deming
"It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change"
Charles Darwin 1809-82
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