Relax With Dax

Category: Saving the world

  • GM foods are not the solution to world hunger

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    I like to play the devil’s advocate. I think it’s very important for people to get both sides of the story and to critically examine the evidence for and against each of the sides. I’m very nervous of confirmation bias. You can follow that link to the wikipedia article on it, but an extract of…

  • Joke of the bushveld

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    When I was preparing my post on the WWF Living Planet report, it made me think of a video I saw a while ago. It is funny but has a very important message. It’s an advert for the Endangered Wildlife Trust. The video is short and small so it won’t take long to download and…

  • WWF Living Planet Report 2008

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    Very recently, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) released the 2008 Living Planet Report, 10 years after the first one. I downloaded it along with the 2006 report for comparison. The first thing I have to say is that I don’t think I have ever seen better graphs. I think they have invented completely new graph…

  • Nedbank Africa Geographic evening review

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    Last night I attended a panel discussion sponsored by Africa Geographic and Nedbank Green Affinity. The topic was Eating the Environment – what our food choices are doing to the environment. The panelists were Johan Ferreira, head of food technology at Woolworths; Aaniyah Omardien, manager of the WWF Living Waters Marine Programme and Mark Botha, conservation…

  • 3 Documentaries at the Labia

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    There are three EXCELLENT documentaries being screened at the Labia this month. I have seen all of them and highly recommend them all. They are on different topics, but the topics interlink to form a bigger picture. Here is a quick summary of each with a link to my review, the documentary website and the…

  • Documentary Screening: Uncounted

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    While You Were Sleeping has organised another documentary screening at the Labia. Uncounted is about election fraud in the 2004 and 2006 in the United States. It examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election integrity.  I am really looking forward to seeing this…

  • Global financial crisis – an explanation

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    The past few months have been both tragic and interesting as the global financial crisis unfolds. I’ve read countless articles on the topic, contemplated countless predictions and been shocked by the magnitude of the casualties. I don’t think anyone realised what the global effect of this crisis would be, and we still have a long way…

  • Documentary screening: Earthlings

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    On the theme of my previous post about vegetarianism, there is an excellent documentary being screened at the Labia for a week from Friday. Here is the blurb from the website: EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity’s absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our…

  • Vegetarianism

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    Just for the record, I’m not a vegetarian. But having said that, as I have become more environmentally aware, I have realised that eating meat is a major contributor to the environmental problems we face. This may come as a surprise to some people so I will give a brief explanation: Animals need to be…

  • GMO labelling in SA – part 2

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    I posted a little while ago about a social action regarding the reinstatment of the GMO labelling clause in the Consumer Protection Bill after it had been removed. I have some good news to report on the progress of this issue: Recently, the clause was reinstated which means that any product containing genetically modified food…