Month: January 2021

Both are polluting, one dirties the place, the other blatantly dirties our views in a much bigger way. Why the double standards? Why do we punish the poor individual but REWARD THE RICH BUSINESSMEN AND CORPORATIONS. Should we allow the visual pollution and COMMERCIALISATION OF PUBLIC SPACES? Should we not reclaim back our public spaces? Should we let the public by educated by commercial culture,...

In a public letter of protest, 60 child psychologists and mental health professionals told the American Psychological Association (APA): “Advertising and marketing firms have long used the insights and research method of psychology in order to sell products … But today these practices are reaching epidemic levels, and with a complicity on the part of the psychological profession that exceed...

by Masanobu Fukuoka, who is a farmer and author of One Straw Revolution and many other books. He is one of the most extraordinary farmers of the 20th century and practises the unique do-nothing farming. An awesome thinker who has profound words on almost anything ... farming, education, modern science, life, etc. "I am a small person, staying on a small Japanese island called Shikoku. I am crazy...

“The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask, ‘How about trying this?’ or ‘How about trying that?’ bringing in a variety of techniques one upon the other. This is modern agriculture and it only results in making the farmer busier. My way was opposite. I was aiming at a pleasant, natural way of farming which results in making the work easier instead of harder. ‘How about...

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that...