star.gif (2664 bytes)A Down To Earth Supplement
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       No. 10,  November15, 1999 
Gobar means animal dung in Hindi. All of rural India uses it in a variety of ways. Ways that exemplify sustainable existence. That's why we use it, too.

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COW PATS
YUMMY INSECTS
Georges Brossard, founder -director of Insectarium de Montreal, collects insects for a living. He was in India recently to show how valuable insects are and how much we ignore them. He even has a few gimmicks, serving insects with chocolate, garlic and even lollipops!

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ENDANGERED TRIBE
For the Jarawas, negroid aborigines inhabiting the Andaman Islands, contact with the ‘civilised world’ is causing their numbers to dwindle. At home in the rainforest, where they have lived at peace with nature for centuries, the tribe today—it numbered around 1,000 about 15 years ago—is down to 300.


EYE OPENERS

FACTS OF LIFE

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MORE than 1% of global economic output last year was spent on advertising, a record-breaking $408 billion –four of the world’s ten top-spending advertisers were auto companies.
WORLDWIDE, traffic accidents kill some 885,000 people each year – equivalent to 10 fatal jumbo jet crashes per day – and injure many, many more.

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