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Being of Italian extraction, pasta is never too far from my thoughts. Whenever I’m not feeling 100%, a good pasta dish always seems to pick me up. That’s why I’ve started wondering if it’s possible that pasta has medicinal qualities? I’m not sure if it does, but for me it seems to… My medicine of choice is always a good, clean, tomato-based sauce served on a bed of homemade fettucine drizzled with olive oil. Whenever I make sauce – I guess like most of you – I do the normal things. I start with good quality tomatoes, onion, and a super healthy amount of garlic. But the secret of the sauce – for me anyway – is in the veal that I’ve pan-fried earlier. You see I like to cook the veal in the sauce. This brings out a colossal...

Climate change has brought with it a raft of terms that, unless you’re involved in the field, are unlikely to be common knowledge. To co-incide with the release of The Organic Answer to Climate Change, I thought it might be useful to provide a glossary of commonly used climate change terms. Even though the list is by no means complete it does provide a decent lead into the topic. Like it or not, it looks like we’re all bound to hear a lot more about climate change in the years to come. If you’re keen to learn more right now, you might like to check out Dr Glen Barry’s Climate Ark Blog and also the Climate Change Action blog. Both of these are excellent resources. In the mean time, here are those terms… Abatement...

I like to keep an eye out for new and/or interesting sites that provide information and advice on leading an organic lifestyle. Many of these sites, often presented in the form of blogs, deserve to be shared with others. So to keep you up-to-date with what’s available, today we begin the first in a series of monthly organic blog reviews. In these posts, we’ll check out what’s being said and – where appropriate – why it’s being said, and who’s saying it. Without further ado, let’s check out the top five organic and organic-related blog posts during December 2007: Tree Hugging Family – Upon returning from the end of year vacation period, many people choose to begin the New Year with a new job. With rising business...