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The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” (Le Monde selon Monsanto) and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

Read more about Monsanto and genetically modified seeds on www.bewust-leven.org (*Dutch only) or buy the DVD on www.arte-boutique.fr.   Read more...

The Hyves group "This is not a game" was created to share a T-shirt design for anybody interested in protesting in favour of human rights in China. Just click on the hyve logo (notagame.hyves.nl) and save the image to use in printing your own protest T-shirt. Make many of these for your friends and family.

This graphical design should stimulate but not demand that people boycott China olympics based on human rights violations by the Chinese government: Darfur, Tibet, working conditions, child labour, press repression/censorship, screening of news and internet and so on.   Read more...

Just recently I got an e-mail from a friend asking me to participate in the European Parliament petition. Here is the story:

'It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament once a month from Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France and vica versa.   Read more...

More and more people aspire to a conscientious way of living and strive for a healthy, sustainable and positive attitude to life. A mindset that not only serves the wellbeing of each individual but that also considers the consequences to all beings, the environment and nature. The aim of www.bewust-leven.org is to bring together all people, companies and organisations that have made a conscientious decision for themselves. By means of this, we want to provide elementary and convenient support to the inhabitants of Maastricht and surroundings for a more conscientious way of living.

Having access to people and companies that act responsibly and encourage a development that meets the needs of the present generation as well as those of future generations would make conscientious living even easier for the rest of us. It is however often time consuming and hard to find people, organisations and companies that take those factors to heart.   Read more...