Humans need to breathe clean air, drink clear water, eat enough, play, work and rest to be fully human. That concept doesn't match the economic model of the value of humans. Yet there are seeds of change in industry, agriculture, and politics which the conference presenters are nurturing. The conference was sponsored by Odwalla Juice Company, ArrowHead Mills organic foods, Aubrey Organics natural cosmetics and other new businesses which have been bulging the mold of bottom-line business practices. Bob Weir, of the former Grateful Dead's Further Foundation, also contributed.
Water is a big part of a sustainable future.
Clean water, water with all of its natural properties intact. The hidden life of water was shown in slides by Jennifer Greene of the Water Research Institute. In water not damaged by pollutants or soaps, microscopic photography of running or splashing water displays stunning artistic forms. Her slides proved that the presence of even extremely low levels of toxins disturbs the complexity of the rosetta, spiral, corkscrew,and ovary-shaped morphology phenomenon in natural water. Following Rudolf Steiner's theories that it is the hidden world which supports life, hydrologist Theodor Schwenk began this research of studying the forms and rhythms inherent in water movement and how it acts to purify water.