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Moneyless man reveals how to live a cashless life without starving. Mark Boyle, the moneyless man, collecting food. Photograph: Charlotte Sexauer When I began living without money 18 months ago, the most common question people asked me was "How on earth are you going to eat? ". An understandable remark, but an insight into the burgeoning degrees of separation between the stomach and the soil . For most of us, food comes in plastic packets from the supermarket.

A friend, who runs tours of an organic farm for school children, gives much anecdotal evidence of this. The answer to this FAQ is in the query itself – I eat from the earth. There are four legs to the money-free food table. At the moment look out for giant puffballs, bristly ox-tongue and rocket, the latter often found in the cracks between walls and paths in cities.

Great Britain has been tamed, so its remaining wilds could no longer feed its population. Growing and foraging all your calorific needs is a huge task, especially without fossil fuel inputs such as fertiliser.

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Patriots Question 9/11 - Responsible Criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report. News - World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana. Botswana | World Culture - Arts | Science - Education | SocietyWorld's oldest religion discovered in Botswana afrol News, 1 December - Archaeologists have discovered what seems to be remains of the world's earliest religious worship site in the remote Ngamiland region of Botswana.

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My year of living without money. The morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed.

My year of living without money

It was the same day news broke about the banks' misbehaviour in the sub-prime mortgage market, so when I began telling people of my plans, they assumed it was in preparation for some sort of apocalyptic financial meltdown. However, having long viewed credit as a debit against future generations, I was infinitely more worried about what George Monbiot called the "nature crunch". Nature, unfortunately, doesn't do bailouts. I suppose the seeds of my decision to give up money – not just cash but any form of monetary credit – were sown seven years ago, in my final semester of a business and economics degree in Ireland, when I stumbled upon a DVD about Gandhi. He said we should "be the change we want to see in the world".

My eureka moment came during an afternoon's philosophising with a mate. If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. Living in the Heart: How to Enter Into the Sacred Space Within the Heart [With CD]: Drunvalo Melchizedek: 9781891824432: Amazon.com. Flower of Life. The Flower of Life.

Flower of Life

Geometrical symbols, including a "flower of life" rosette, incised on roof beams of a ceiling dating from 1681, Rural Architecture Museum of Sanok, Poland. Such marks were thought to provide protection from lightning. The Flower of Life is a name for a geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles. This figure, used as a decorative motif since ancient times, forms a flower-like pattern with the symmetrical structure of a hexagon. Lina Medina. Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933, in Ticrapo, Huancavelica Region, Peru) is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 17 days. She presently lives in Lima, the capital of Peru.

Early development Born in Ticrapo, Peru,[1] to silversmith Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea,[2] Medina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of five years due to increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Contemporary newspaper accounts indicate that interest in the case developed on many fronts. A month and a half after the original diagnosis, on May 14, 1939, Medina gave birth to a boy by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis. Her son Medina's son weighed 2.7 kg (6.0 lb; 0.43 st) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Later life. Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island. "The island was swarming with lizards," he said.

Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island

Apollo 14 astronaut claims aliens HAVE made contact - but it has been covered up for 60 years. UPDATED: 00:44 GMT, 24 July 2008 Edgar Mitchell was the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 14 Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed. Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.' Polyphasic sleep.