Sharing the Ascension Experience
Land cleared for planting as world demand rocketsThe dry, yellowing fields stretch out to the horizon, past shiny new silos, their polished tin gleaming in the noon sunshine. Beside freshly hoed fields stand new tractors and ploughs. This is the Amazon, a vast lung producing 20% of the earth’s oxygen, and home to 30% of … Read more
Dickson Despommier’s hydroponic metropolis would squeeze sprawling farmland into skyscrapers, feed millions, and cool the Earth. Nearly 41 percent of Earth’s land is now used for agriculture, yet we’re on the brink of vast population growth, from 6.7 billion people today to an estimated 9.2 billion by 2050, with the majority living in cities. The … Read more
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday said that malnutrition and famine were one of the most serious problems of the current era that should be urgently addressed.The world has enough food for everyone but despite this, inadequate nourishment and famine still continue to affect one out of seven people in the world, Erdoğan said at … Read more
Beijing will start a daily report mechanism on food safety during the “Good Luck Beijing” International tournaments officially to kick off on Aug 8, a test run for a food safety monitoring system designed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Sources with the Beijing Municipal Food Safety Office said that Beijing is going to share this system … Read more
Norway’s revived electric carmaker, now called “Think Global,” is raising more capital with the goal of producing 10,000 cars a year by 2009. Now Jan-Olaf Willums, chief executive of Think Global, appears to have some solid investors behind him. The firm started rolling again earlier this year, with a line-up including retailing tycoon Stein-Erik Hagen, … Read more
Current APA policy stipulates that no therapy should occur without “informed consent” of a gay or lesbian client. Jason Cianciotto of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said he hoped the APA would declare that no young person could ever be deemed to have given informed consent, and thus no reparative therapy would be … Read more
Hitchens, when he runs up against the authentic religious life, withers. He tries vainly to deny its existence, since its recognition punctures his pronouncement that “religion teaches people to be extremely self-centered and conceited.” He writes of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that “in no real as opposed to nominal sense, then, was … Read more
Pope Benedict recently addressed all young people saying “I have noticed that against the tide of secularism many young people are rediscovering the satisfying quest for authentic beauty, goodness and truth. Through your witness you help them in their search for the Spirit of God.”Check Our Sources
Redeemed! 10 Ways to Get Out of the Gay Life, If You Want Out Although I have lived as a lesbian for my entire adult life, it is without a doubt my soul’s purpose to use my gifts to LOVINGLY share the truth about how we got here: how we came to be gay or … Read more
Public Divided on “Pro-Choice” vs. “Pro-Life” Abortion LabelsWhen it comes to Americans’ specific attitudes about the legality of abortion, public opinion is somewhat more conservative than its attachment to these labels would suggest. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans (58%) think abortion should either be limited to only a few circumstances or illegal in all circumstances. … Read more