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Healthy people in a healthy environment
Good health and well-being require a clean and harmonious environment where physical, psycho - logical, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. These factors are affected by actions and choices which can secure considerable health benefits. The environment is thus not only important for its own sake, but as a resource for better living conditions and well-being.- What we’ve agreed: the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals
- Green savings
- What young people want
- Water – the key to life
- The air we breathe
- Safer, quieter towns and cities of the future – reclaiming the streets
- Active, healthy lifestyles
- Making energy sustainable
- On the safe side
- Listen to our voices – the Bandung Declaration
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Blogspot Archive
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Olive harvest
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe time has come on my Portuguese smallholding for the annual olive harvest. It’s time-consuming work and the weather’s usually rubbish, but there’s something quite sacred about harvesting this ancient...
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Building a Piglu
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No CommentsIf I'd ever been asked what a pig's preferred sleeping arrangements might be, I'd probably have scratched my head. I suppose I might have imagined those arch shaped pig houses... -
A brush with death
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsIt all started with an awful sound – a terrified screeching. I tore outside to see a large buzzard flying skyward from the garden. There in the grass lay poor... -
Battling villains
Posted on July 17, 2012 | No CommentsI’ve always felt rather akin to the cult comic book character Tank Girl… if more in terms of her sense of style than her life struggle. But now I have... -
Creepy crawlies and hairy horrors!
Posted on June 13, 2012 | No CommentsIf you worry about dangerous creepy crawlies in southern Europe you might jump straight to the old classics – spiders and scorpions – but in reality the one you need... -
Let’s hear it for linen
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsLinen's twice the life of cotton, doesn’t shrink, is easy to cultivate, holds dyes well, and is resistant to moths and beetles. And it looks great! -
Expect the unexpected
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No CommentsMore new from the Beira region of Portugal … Jemima blogs about the “good life” … and admits that self-sufficiency is not as easy as you might have thought. Living... -
Jemima
Posted on February 27, 2012 | 1 CommentJemima chose to leave her city life in Bristol, UK, to live sustainably, off-grid in the foothills of the Estrela Mountains of central Portugal. It has been a steep learning... -
Emily’s Top 10 for reducing packaging
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsReduce: Take a hessian bag shopping and fill with loose vegetables and fruit. Reuse: Reuse any plastic packaging your fruit and veg comes in. Recycle: At the supermarket, look for... -
Time to pack in the packaging
Posted on August 1, 2011 | 6 CommentsBy Emily Keal Supermarkets worldwide are guilty of using excessive packaging, especially plastic. This consumes huge amounts of energy and natural resources – around 8 per cent of the world’s...
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