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Site-ings
presents latest updates and happenings around the Looking-Glass solar
system
Stop Press ...
There
is currently a major site update taking place all around Looking-Glass
and VeggieGlobal over 2005/6. As new areas develop you will begin to
"feel" and see a new and easy to navigate Looking-Glass experience.
This update is also necessary to integrate many new and important areas
to the sites. If you find any broken links during this major update
please report them via our
contact
page ...
thank you.
Looking-Glass and
VeggieGlobal Greek Stray Animal Story
In 2004 LGVN published a major news article about the stray animal situation
in Greece. The story coincided with the Olympic Games and examines in
detail the general contention and slander surrounding animal welfare mismanagement
inside Greece. In three parts, this popular article goes on to examine
backgrounds of Greece and other countries cited as cruel to animals and
discovers how history and "cultural logic" determine the different relationships
that nations of opposites have towards their animals.
www.looking-glass.co.uk/news/library2004/2004-6-greek-strays1.htm
Looking-Glass and
VeggieGlobal Columnists
In 2003 the sites were delighted to introduce three new columnists,
Heather Chase, Annette Crosbie and Kim Cooling. All have contributed
greatly to the world of animal compassion and their regular columns
here through the Looking-Glass are a welcome addition to this important
web mission.
www.looking-glass.co.uk/homelands/columnists.htm
Ban The Bang!
Some time back Looking-Glass launched a major campaign to stop the public
use of fireworks. Wildlife is being literally frightened to death and
our popular campaign to ban the public sale of loud fireworks is here
online waiting for more of your votes. Please send in your experiences
of wildlife suffering from fireworks and vote in our poll. This campaign
has contributed to the UK government's new changes ... but the proposals
simply do not go far enough. In fact we believe they will cause more
problems than cure the current ones. Ban the Bang! has already received
hundreds of votes but thousands more are needed ... and also to spread
our campaign globally for all countries to participate in. www.looking-glass.co.uk/banthebang
To "V"
or not to "V", that is the confusion
VeggieGlobal.com, the major vegetarian site at Looking-Glass
has launched a long term investigation and campaign on food product
labeling for vegetarians - on a global scale. We will be unearthing
facts on additives and disclosing misinformation about veggie labeling
as well as looking into the lack of food product information for vegetarians
around different countries of the world.
If you have any stories, thoughts or comments that might contribute
to this investigation we would like to hear from you. Please go to the
campaigns page and add your comments to the voting form.
You'll find
the "NOVA Key" labelling capaign at: www.looking-glass.co.uk/campaigns
VeggieGlobal Kids
will be launching soon
www.veggieGlobal.com/veggieglobalkids, The site gives
children specific information to help them make choices about their
vegetarian lifestyle It also points them to interesting and suitable
resources and activities found around the rest of Looking-Glass and
VeggieGlobal.
VeggieGlobal.com/veggieglobalkids
The
Animal Highway Code
At VeggieGlobal
In 2005 a new mini-site has been launched called "Sharing This
Planet With The Animals". It includes advice on careing for your
companion animal, plus important information about looking after them
when travelling. You'll also find useful tips about driving and wildlife
and even a breakdown of pet ownership costs.
Care
for The Wild Across The Continents (How to build a wildlife garden)
One of the
latest moons of Looking Glass to evolve and provide world healing information
is the UK section of Care
for the Wild Across the Continents at VeggieGlobal.
There you'll now find plenty of easily absorbed information on how to
develop a wildlife friendly garden - as well as how to build a wonderful
wildlife pond. It also gives you information on how to look after the
animals that will visit your garden.
This site provides
a free resource for your benefit and in turn, for the good of the planet.
Please help to keep Looking-Glass and VeggieGlobal alive and operational
by donating.
Donating
If you are a regular visitor and find that the free services we provide
here are proving useful to you, we also ask if you would kindly make
a donation. Your can keep these unique sites alive, which provide aid
and exposure to the charitable causes we work with and represent.
Please
visit our donation page
Campaigns
Gateway
To accommodate our growing campaigns here at Looking-Glass / VeggieGlobal,
a new satellite site has been launched with an easy to find campaigns
menu.
www.looking-glass.co.uk/campaigns
The
Dreamclub Sites
This colourful, fun and animated part of the dreambeat dimension should
help create an interesting forum for those interested in defining their
dream environments. Although submitting dreams is still closed you can
read dreams that are currently on the site as well as the Dreaming Tree
philosophy.
www.looking-glass.co.uk/dreamingtree
The relaxing interactive
environment of the
Tea Party
is open for fun and nonsense. With artwork by artist Victoria Gardner,
it should provide a laid back, time-out area for Looking-Glass compassionates.
You can browse some of the fun'n'games and reflective areas of the solar
system. The Tea Party layout reflects the sensation of a 1960's childrens
picture book... put the kettle on!
Looking-Glass would
also like to congratulate Victoria Gardner in passing her B.A honours
degree with flying colours in June 2005.
The Dreamclub
will soon be re-styled to help provide a relaxing and easy journey around
your wonderland.
www.looking-glass.co.uk/dreamclub
In 2007/8 we hope
to have Poets Wood open in the dimension, where you can read quality selected
poetry submitted by Looking-Glass subscribers. We should also have the
Parallax Corridor opened by then, where you'll find reviews and links
on only the coolest music, arts and entertainment.
VeggieGlobal Classifieds
still under re-furbishment
The UK
section of the huge Global Classifieds site at VeggieGlobal is still
under re-furbishment. Most private ads are free, and we ask any relevant
business's to please consider advertising there. If you type in "Vegetarian
Classifieds UK" into Google you will nearly always find it is No.1
In fact just by typing "Vegetarian Classifieds" on its own
in Google, it is No 1 worldwide! There is nothing else on the web that
will provide you with completely dedicated classifieds service of this
kind. It also looks atractive and will soon be very intuitive to use.
www.veggieglobal.com/classifieds
VeggieGlobal and Looking-Glass
front entrance updates
The front contents
page of VeggieGlobal
has been re-designed to accomodate the increasing amount of activities
found there... New Vegetarian Paths have been set up to help people just
turning veggie.
And as you may have noticed, this news site, LGVN
has been completely re-vamped to make it easier and quicker for you
to find the increasing amount of articles - all which are achived for
your research purposes via the search box which you'll find at the top
of each news page.
The front "Homelands"
pages of Looking-Glass
have been completely redesigned to accommodate the increasing amount of
activities found there...
And as you may have noticed, this news site, LGVN
has been completely revamped to make it easier and quicker for you to
find the increasing amount of articles - all archived for your reference.
Good
Cause Shopping
To help support the running of these sites - and in turn the causes
we represent and work with - you'll now find a new mini site called
"Good
Cause Shopping".
To understand the concept and the ethics behind our shopping sites please
read
our Good Cause Shopping Policy
Cult Digital
Another great
new mini-shopping site has been launched at Looking-Glass called Cult
Digital. It offers reviews and purchase links for the
finest World Cinema DVDs and film music soundtracks, plus concise listings
of film directors, composers as well as reviews on actors - and of course,
you favourite cult movies and TV series. This site is linked for easy
purchase to Amazon UK, USA and Canada. As with all the mini-shopping
sites around Looking-Glass and VeggieGlobal, the few pennies we receive
from our affiliated partners goes towards supporting the running of
these sites and campaigns - and in turn the causes we represent and
work with.
www.looking-glass.co.uk/cultdigital
Back in 2000 and
within just a few weeks of being officially launched into cyberspace,
Looking-Glass won the prestigious "Site
of the Week" award by Amazon
Looking-Glass and
VeggieGlobal is supported entirely on the few pence and cents it gets
from visitors buying through to Amazon and our other shopping links. We
kindly ask all our visitors to click through to Amazon via Looking-Glass
/ VeggieGlobal when you want to purchase something.
please
browse our Amazon based shops.
Looking-Glass Life
It's been
growing quietly and organically for more than 5 years, and has now become
one of the world's largest non-profit making independent internet retreats
for "Global Compassionates".
In Life
Through The Looking-Glass you'll find a report about
the Looking-Glass and VeggieGlobal websites. Why they were created and
how they hope to evolve in the future.
More...
Future Additions
to Looking-Glass and VeggieGlobal (previews)
E-Cards
and Poetry Cards
Veggie
Dating
On
Reflection
Parallax
Corridor
This
article was last updated in: June / July 2005
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