Archived articles from 2002
Japanese Citizens’ Bank
30 Jun 2002
Never become focused on chasing money and profit ñ that is the key to the success of a new business, according to Masaru Kataoka, founder and president of the Citizen's Bank. But while this may be a great ideal, many would say that it's not so easy in reality. Indeed, regular banks never extend loans without collateral and they...
Integrated Health on the NHS
30 Jun 2002
The chance of getting complementary therapies on the NHS alongside conventional treatments has been given a boost by the Prince of Wales. His Foundation for Integrated Health is collaborating with five primary care projects which already provide some measure of complementary medicine.
Spiritual Psychiatry
30 Jun 2002
Psychiatrists are beginning to take account of the importance of the spiritual dimension in treating psychiatric patients. Over 500 have now joined the special interest Spirituality and Psychiatry Group which was set up three years ago to enable colleagues to investigate and share, without fear of censure, the relevance of spirituality to clinical practice'
Children’s Earth Sumitt
30 Jun 2002
Children all over India took part in a Children's Earth Summit in April in preparation for the larger event taking place in Johannesburg at the end of August. Organised by Navdanya, a non-governmental organisation involved in ecological and environmental conservation the Summit helped children to learn about the environment in their local community and encouraged them to think of...
Children’s Earth Sumitt
30 Jun 2002
Children all over India took part in a Children's Earth Summit in April in preparation for the larger event taking place in Johannesburg at the end of August. Organised by Navdanya, a non-governmental organisation involved in ecological and environmental conservation the Summit helped children to learn about the environment in their local community and encouraged them to think of...
Chicken Shed Spreads Its Wings
30 Jun 2002
Since 1974 Chicken Shed Theatre Company in North London has been opening up the performing arts to children of all ages and backgrounds so that they shine together, producing original and exciting theatre.
The Glasshouse Project
30 Jun 2002
A pioneering initiative to rejuvenate an ailing industrial factory in Stourbridge has proved an extra-ordinary success. The Ruskin Mill Further Education Centre (rmfec) has taken the declining Royal Doulton Crystal Factory and created a thriving educational site through its innov-ative Glasshouse Project.
Music Couse Gets You Work
30 Jun 2002
As well as music skills, the course also helps improve participants' literacy and numeracy skills. 'The course has helped me meet new people and I also like music quite a bit more now,' said 16 year old Anna Watkinson, who found that it also helped to build her confidence and teach her how to work in a group environment....
Indo-Celtic Connections
30 Jun 2002
A remarkable project recently brought two gypsy folk musicians from Rajasthan (Northern India) to schools in Cardiff. Chugge Khan and Sattar Khan performed concerts and ran workshops in four schools in Cardiff, chosen because of their mixed ethnicity. Children listened in hushed silence to the extraordinary skills of these two musicians, who, despite their very limited English, seemed able...
Painting School Powered by the Sun
30 Jun 2002
In mountainous Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, old Nepalese spiritual traditions and crafts continue to play a major role in society. Buddhist Thangka painting has a centuries old history and offers people the opportunity to generate their own income, thanks to solar energy projects set up by the Himalayan Light Foundation.
Inspiring Achievement
30 Jun 2002
Called the greatest Englishman of his age', the late Lord Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine gave positive impetus and direction to the lives of millions in the second half of the 20th century. Inspiring Achievement is the deliberately ambiguous title of an anthology of contributions on his life and work, to be published in October by the Foundation for Outdoor...
Beyond Crisis: Growing Up on Planet Earth
30 Jun 2002
Global Net, in association with Positive News, is delighted to be publishing a wonderfully useful, inspiring and vital handbook: You Can Change the World, is written by Professor Ervin Laszlo, founder director of the Club of Budapest. The message speaks to all of us, to each of us in person, but Professor Laszlo is especially keen that it should...
How Freud Changed the World
30 Jun 2002
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self told the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in...
How Freud Changed the World
30 Jun 2002
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self told the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in...
Hope Project
30 Jun 2002
...is for those who think that life is about something more than being consumers and producers and who see the necessity for a far reaching change in our way of living on planet Earth.
Earth Emergency — A Call to Action
30 Jun 2002
Millions of people worldwide are becoming aware of the connectedness of all life. By working together through our networks, globally and locally, we can accelerate initiatives already under way, shifting the global balance of power in favour of restoring the Earth, sharing its resources equitably and assuring the sustainable wellbeing of present and future generations.
Children Challenge Governments
30 Jun 2002
They also challenged the people of the world not to buy products that cause pollution, to live simply and use only what you need, reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, reduce the number of factories and cars, listen to each other especially children.
Children Challenge Governments
30 Jun 2002
They also challenged the people of the world not to buy products that cause pollution, to live simply and use only what you need, reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, reduce the number of factories and cars, listen to each other especially children.
This Special Issue
30 Jun 2002
The object is twofold: to unite the non governmental organisations and activists and local and global networks around an agreed agenda, based on an agreed planetary ethic of respect for all life and human dignity and to urge governments worldwide join us in using the coming decade to bring in the new thinking and actions that will restore the...
The Jo’Burg Memo
30 Jun 2002
The Memo suggests an agenda for equity and ecology for the next decade. Key points come under headings: Rio in Retrospect appraises the 10 years since the Rio Conference, which launched a number of successful institutional processes, but without result. Economic globalisation has largely washed away gains made on the micro level, spreading an ex-ploitative economy and exposing natural...