About us

lifeworks is the mail order service for Green Health Watch Magazine and The Environment-Health Trust. It sells a range of health-promoting and energy-saving products within the following categories:

Bodycare for Adults and Children
Books and CDs
Energy Savers
Healing
No Scent
Pet Care
Pollution Busters
Radiation Detectors

Nick Anderson
I have been interested in promoting fairer economic systems and ways of government since university, but it took a brain tumour in 1984 and two years convalescence to make the opportunity and space needed in my life to turn words into action. Raising awareness of the many factors affecting our health became a consuming interest.

I became a Green Party activist in 1985, eventually serving on the Party's Executive for eight years between 1987 and 1999. Over the same period, I directed the national medical charity Action for M.E. for three years and worked as course development manager for the Yoga for Health Foundation for three years. Whilst working at the Foundation I qualified as a yoga teacher.

In 2001 I moved Green Health Watch Magazine from Bristol to Forres (near Inverness, in Scotland) in order to be closer to my daughter, Amber, and am now her principal carer. I continue to work with Jenny (in Bristol) by telephone and email. Developing Green Health Watch Magazine, looking after Amber and developing my songwriting, musical and performance skills are now my main occupations.

Jenny Spinner
My focus on human health in an environmental context comes from my belief that much of the destruction and pollution of nature wouldn’t happen if every human life was valued. Classist and racist attitudes, in particular, make it easier for businesses and Governments to decide that some human lives are worth less than others and for the rest of us to go along with it. I believe that, if we took better care of our health and each other as a species, the biodiversity of our planet would automatically be protected.

My interest in all aspects of health led me to train and qualify as an acupuncturist, and has developed further since contracting M.E., as I research the possible underlying causes of such a mystifying disease. At present I live and work in Bristol where I am also exploring the potential of Qi Gong (an ancient Chinese energy practice) as a self-healing method.

I am also interested in the potential of local community as an antidote to our increasingly 'multinational' lifestyles and am the chairperson of a new housing co-op. I am involved in group work that looks at power dynamics between people, and belong to a counselling network which works with people to heal from the hurts of oppression.

History
Nick researched, wrote and published the first edition of Green Health Watch Magazine from his home in Glastonbury in March 1995. At that time it was called Health Facts and Fiction, a simple black and white photocopied document. The magazine was well received and editor and researcher Jenny Spinner came on board for the second and all subsequent editions.

From the second edition through to edition 17, the magazine was called Environment & Health News, graduating from photocopied document to printed journal, then relaunched as Green Health Watch Magazine in December 2000 (edition 18). From edition 27, the magazine has sported a full-colour cover to give it a higher profile in shops and other public places.

Green Health Watch Magazine is available both on paper (as a 24-page A4 magazine) or in electronic formats (PDF and plain email text).

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