SACRAMENTO (NNA) - A school district in California has successfully fought off a challenge to be allowed to use Waldorf methods instruction in public schools and publicly-funded charter schools.

In an unpublished judgement, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling of the Eastern District Court in favour of the Sacramento City Unified School District that the use of Waldorf methods in public schools did not breach the so-called Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US…

ARLESHEIM (NNA) - The new management of the Swiss-based medicine and natural cosmetics group Weleda has given a positive assessment of the company’s future. Presenting the 2011 annual accounts at the end of May, administrative board president Paul Mackay and CEO Ralph Heinisch said Weleda was on the way to being “turned around”.

In 2011, Weleda had to absorb a loss of 8.3m euros (£6.7m, US$10.4m) after interest and taxes on a “stagnating income”. In the previous year the deficit was 3.8m euros…

ARLESHEIM (NNA) - The new management of the Swiss-based medicine and natural cosmetics group Weleda has given a positive assessment of the company’s future. Presenting the 2011 annual accounts at the end of May, administrative board president Paul Mackay and CEO Ralph Heinisch said Weleda was on the way to being “turned around”.

In 2011, Weleda had to absorb a loss of 8.3m euros (£6.7m, US$10.4m) after interest and taxes on a “stagnating income”. In the previous year the deficit was 3.8m euros…

VANCOUVER (NNA) - There has been strong growth of value-centred banking worldwide. This could clearly be seen at the latest meeting of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), held earlier this year in Vancouver, Canada.

The GABV is a grouping made up of sixteen of the world’s leading sustainable banks. According to a study compiled with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, the financial indicators of these value-centred banks show that they are outperforming even the biggest…

BOCHUM (NNA) - The demand for microloans in Germany has proved far larger than initially anticipated. According to Falk Zientz, head of microfinance at the GLS Bank, which was asked by the German government in 2010 to roll out a microfinance scheme across Germany, the response of borrowers to the loans on offer had been far larger than anticipated.

So far approximately 6,630 microloans with a volume of 39.8m euros had been disbursed since 2010 while the initial expectation had not been more…

BOCHUM (NNA) - The demand for microloans in Germany has proved far larger than initially anticipated. According to Falk Zientz, head of microfinance at the GLS Bank, which was asked by the German government in 2010 to roll out a microfinance scheme across Germany, the response of borrowers to the loans on offer had been far larger than anticipated.

So far approximately 6,630 microloans with a volume of 39.8m euros had been disbursed since 2010 while the initial expectation had not been more…

LONDON (NNA) – The Wise Traditions London 2012 festival for traditional nutrition will take place next month at Epsom Down Racecourse. The event on 17 and 18 March includes the third annual Weston A. Price Foundation conference with speakers including Professor Ton Baars, the former professor of biodynamic agriculture at Kassel University in Germany.

The Weston A. Price Foundation campaigns for “wise traditions in food, farming and the healing arts and is very supportive of the works of Rudolf…

LONDON (NNA) – The Wise Traditions London 2012 festival for traditional nutrition will take place next month at Epsom Down Racecourse. The event on 17 and 18 March includes the third annual Weston A. Price Foundation conference with speakers including Professor Ton Baars, the former professor of biodynamic agriculture at Kassel University in Germany.

The Weston A. Price Foundation campaigns for “wise traditions in food, farming and the healing arts and is very supportive of the works of Rudolf…

With his book, “Dornach Design”, Reinhold J. Fäth takes a voyage through Rudolf Steiner’s art impulse. It is an opulent book about furniture designed from an anthroposophical perspective during in the period from 1911 to 2011 with an abundance of pictures, most of them in colour. Anne-Kathrin Weise looked at the book for NNA.

BERLIN (NNA) - Every time I started reading in order finally to begin this review, I just kept reading and reading, discovering ever new design objects with often very…

With his book, “Dornach Design”, Reinhold J. Fäth takes a voyage through Rudolf Steiner’s art impulse. It is an opulent book about furniture designed from an anthroposophical perspective during in the period from 1911 to 2011 with an abundance of pictures, most of them in colour. Anne-Kathrin Weise looked at the book for NNA.

BERLIN (NNA) - Every time I started reading in order finally to begin this review, I just kept reading and reading, discovering ever new design objects with often very…