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Diversity strengthens the earth and human beings >>> On the occasion of World Food Day 2025 nutritionist Jasmin Peschke emphasizes the importance of healthy food systems
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From deserts to living landscapes >>> Sustainable farming projects in desert regions present best practice examples at the Goetheanum
The spreading of deserts worldwide constitutes a challenge for the earth’s climate and therefore also for plants, animals and humans. Biodynamic initiatives in the Sahara region prove that even deserts can be transformed into living spaces.
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Over 1000 titles >>> Merger of publishers Rudolf Steiner Verlag and Verlag am Goetheanum
On 8 May, the publishing company Philosophisch-Anthroposophische Verlage was entered in the Swiss commercial register. The publishers Rudolf Steiner Verlag and Verlag am Goetheanum have merged under this name.
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Science of effective spirit >>> Book on Rudolf Steiner‘s approaches and concerns
Rudolf Steiner was the originator of pioneering achievements such as Waldorf Education, biodynamic farming and Anthroposophic Medicine. His scientific approach is not as well known. In his book ‘Rudolf Steiner und die Anthroposophie’, Peter Selg describes a man with a social impulse that includes the effectiveness of spiritual forces.
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Experiencing farming with active senses >>> The Goetheanum‘s Section for Agriculture passes on biodynamic farming modules to Heliopolis University
After six years of development and testing, the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, has handed over study modules on biodynamic farming to Heliopolis University in Cairo, Egypt, as part of a degree programme in organic agricultural science.
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Effective in the face of resistance >>> Tributes to Rudolf Steiner on the 100th anniversary of his death
Waldorf schools and kindergartens, biodynamic farming and Anthroposophical Medicine are rooted in the anthroposophical approach developed by Rudolf Steiner. But the effectiveness of his work was not to be taken for granted, as events organized at and around the Goetheanum for the 100th anniversary of his death on 30 March will illustrate.
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Making history >>> Documentation on Goetheanum ‘Parsifal’ production
The staging of Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’ at the Goetheanum under director Jasmin Solfaghari has made history by including eurythmy. It also brought together art and science. The book on ‘Parsifal’ at the Goetheanum offers multiple glimpses, personal and professional, into this complex undertaking, a cooperation of Schott Music and Pamy Media Productions.
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“Rediscover what life truly is” >>> Sustainable growing methods such as biodynamics are successful around the world
The smallholder farmers of indigenous cultures seek to live in harmony with the earth. Biodynamic farming is for them a way of bringing together tradition and innovation to achieve a unity of earth, humans and cosmos.
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