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Articles by Cathy Holt
Over 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, 2.5 billion lack adequate sanitation, and 500 million people a year die from drinking contaminated water. By contrast, the average American consumes 110 gallons of water per person per day...
Are severe floods, mudslides, contamination of rivers, and loss of property such as we’ve just experienced in Western North Carolina unavoidable?...
A couple of years ago I had one of the most compelling dreams of my life: I was in a South American country, working alongside indigenous people who were fighting for the right to their water. They were resisting the multinational corporations who were diverting and stealing their rivers...
Several years ago, when world renowned primatologist Jane Goodall started "Roots and Shoots," an international youth activist organization, she probably never dreamed that a hard rock band would be one of the happy outcomes of her inspiration. But surprise of all surprises, that’s just what happened...
For the first time in its history, the (continental) United States has been hit by members of a foreign nation. Billions of dollars' worth of nuclear warheads, "Star Wars" military defenses, B-1 bombers, and military intelligence could not protect us; our illusion of invulnerability has finally been shattered...
Remember that email that began with the premise that the earth's population was a village of 100 people? Here are some excerpts, followed by a few additions worth considering...
Why is it so difficult for the American people to consider using less electricity? I wonder if it has anything to do with our language. We call electricity "power." Who would come out in favor of "having less power"?...
Many of us are mourning the loss of the great columnist, Donella Meadows. In her final "Global Citizen" she wrote of the difficult task of telling our children how global warming will cause the extinction of polar bears...
One of my favorite old movies is "Groundhog Day," starring Bill Murray as the cantankerous weatherman who is forced to re-live February 2 until he gets it right. His hilarious responses to his predicament offer us hope...
In the Hanover Eco-village, as in many other communities,
there is someone who knows how to fix cars; a computer wizard
or two; many musicians, artists, and poets; a worm-composting
deva; an astrologer, a Tarot reader, several Gangaji devotees, a Rumi scholar, some political activists...
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