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TransitionNetwork.org - role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions.  

The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs (PDF file)
We can banish extreme poverty in our generation--yet 8 million people die each year because they are too poor to survive. The tragedy is that with a little help, they could even thrive.

Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa's Future New York Times 

Small Farms & Poverty

UN Millennium Project
The UN Millennium Project is an independent advisory body commissioned by the UN Secretary-General to advise the UN on strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the set of internationally agreed upon targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015.

MakePovertyHistory
www.makepovertyhistory.org 

Peace - Corollary to ending poverty - Teaching Peace  

      Video lecture by Colman McCarthy on Teaching Peace 

      Interview with  Colman McCarthy

Rodale Institute on Famine Prevention

Local efforts:

Lake Erie Western Alliance for Sustainability

See also Political Issues

Dr. Weil on the repercussions of excessive omega-6 fat consumption and the imbalance with omega-3 fats  - "The imbalance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids may also contribute to obesity, depression, dyslexia, hyperactivity and even a tendency toward violence. Bringing the fats into proper proportion may actually relieve those conditions, according to Joseph Hibbeln, M.D., a psychiatrist at the National Institutes of Health, and perhaps the world's leading authority on the relationship between fat consumption and mental health. At the 2006 Nutrition and Health Conference sponsored by the University of Arizona's College of Medicine and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Hibbeln cited a study showing that violence in a British prison dropped by 37 percent after omega-3 oils and vitamins were added to the prisoners' diets." See also this article from The Guardian

Can Omega-3 Fats Play a Role in Reducing Anti-Social Behavior  - 
"In 2004 the National Institutes of Health published a study that found a correlation between the intake in omega-3 fatty acids and lower murder rates[2]. Since then, there have been numerous studies reaching the same conclusions. The same author published a paper in 2006[3] with the following conclusion 'clinical studies suggest that supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids may reduce aggressive, impulsive and depressive behaviors' he went on to say that 'omega-3 supplementation would be an important contribution to public health because these nutrients are inexpensive, non-toxic and readily available."

"Tragically, a growing body of evidence suggests that the bizarre and increasingly common behavioral problems among young children and teen-agers are related to the combined effects of high sugar intakes and the virtual absence of omega-3 essential fatty acids in the American diet."
The Modern Nutritional Diseases, and How to Prevent Them -
Heart Disease, Stroke, Type-2 Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer , page 199
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni, public health professionals

More on omega-3 and 6 fats   

See also Gut and Psychology Syndrome

Cholesterol and behavior:
"[L]ow cholesterol is seen more often in criminals, in people with violent or aggressive-conduct disorders, in homicidal offenders with histories of violence and suicide attempts related to alcohol and in people with poorly internalized social norms and low self-control."
 Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You! by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, 
See pages 150-151 on the effects of low cholesterol on brain function 

Improving school food:
Schools in California are coming up with ingenious ways of bringing organic food to young students in an affordable and educational manner. At Berkeley Unified School, a new program teaches kids how to grow and harvest their own organic food, which is then served in the school's cafeteria. Although the school must currently raise funds to pay for the program, educators hope that after demonstrating that organic school gardens result in improved childhood health, they will be entitled to government funding. The U.S. spent $75 billion treating obesity related health problems in 2003, according to the Center for Disease Control.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/school-lunch.cfm

Exposing the Lies: Prions, Organophosphates & Mad Cow Disease
Interview with Mark Purdey - Acres U.S.A., December 2001

Is the environment responsible for Mad Cow disease and its human counterpart?  by Nicholas Regush

Mark Purdey   - 'Seeking the truth through science'
"My new website features the scientific insight that I have gleaned from twenty years worth of unconventional, eco-detective adventures to isolated out-backs around the world - select regions where clusters of modern diseases have suddenly erupted."

The Purdey Environmental Home Page
"We're interested in exploring the ways in which the Environment may be causing a wide variety of diseases such as BSE, CJD, Scrapie, Alzheimer's disease, the Chronic Fatigue Syndromes and more."

Mad Cows or Mad Scientists?  
THE SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS  
by David Crowe

The Earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof - 
Psalm 24:1

On the Care of Creation 
Please disregard the misinformation about animals fats on this site.

Gifts from God

¹⁷Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father who created all the lights in the heavens. He is always the same and never makes dark shadows by changing. ¹⁸He wanted us to be his own special people, and so he sent the true message to give us new birth.

¹⁹My dear friends, you should be quick to listen and slow to speak or to get angry. ²⁰If you are angry, you cannot do any of the good things that God wants done.

James 1:17-20 (CEV)