Sarah Frances Wales is a beautiful country with stunning coast, high mountains and valleys. It only has around 3 million people (compared to England’s 60 million). Wales’ water board (which also serves part of Herefordshire) is non-profit. By comparison, many of our water boards (including Northumbrian and Wessex Water) being owned by foreign companies. Recent…
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interesting lessons to learn from Austria
Dolceloca Austria is believed by many to be the most beautiful country in the world. Let’s forget the history of Hitler and look at the amazing initiatives in Austria, in a spirit of what we can learn from each other. This is an Alpine paradise and also home to mountain trains and beautiful lakes (and…
interesting lessons to learn from India
Peaches Art India is a vast sub-continent, and very spiritual, home to the wisdom of yoga and Ayurvedic lifestyles that live in harmony with the seasons (rising early and going to bed early), eating natural food and know that we are spiritual beings, something all Indians reflect on). Unlike here where cows are often factory-farmed,…
interesting lessons to learn from Germany
Henry Rivers If thought that Germans all eat frankfurters and schnitzel, they do – but most of them eat vegan versions! By ratio, Germany is the world’s most vegan-friendly country (followed by Israel and the USA). It’s partly to do with the strong holistic health movement (naturopaths have the same status as conventional doctors) and…