In December the French government passed a law banning supermarkets from throwing away unsold food. The law requires stores there to donate unwanted food to charities or food banks. (Tuesday February 9th, 2016 — Care2.com)

Grape farmers around the world have also begun to weed out the use of pesticides and chemicals to protect crops. Additionally, grape farmers have begun organic and biodynamic farming, which is much better for the soil that the grapes are grown in, as well as the ecosystem of surrounding areas. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — Ecopreneurist - )

The scientist who stripped Pluto of its planetary status helped discover it. ... The researchers haven't observed Planet X itself, but believe it exists because of the unique configuration of six objects when they come closest to the sun, according to Science. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

The consonant L is the only water sound in the esoteric alphabet of the harmonious movement art of eurythmy. Rudolf Steiner's association of L with Capricorn always puzzled me, but felt right on some deeper unconscious level. Then one day, a cord of resonance sounded in my Soul. Through the sound and eurythmy gesture of L, we're cleansed and purified, especially during the four weeks after the Winter Solstice, so that the essence of our Souls can awaken in new Light when we reach Aquarius. As we move the golden orange rays up our spine with the purple flow of contemplation, our silver grey earthly self transforms into the soft pink -- eurythmists like to call it peach blossom -- glow of the winter Capricorn light. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

BBC Earth asked mathematicians and physicists to tell us which equations they think are the most beautiful. Their choices range from explanations of antimatter to predicting how sub-atomic particles behave. Explore the 12 equations below, and vote for your favourite in our poll below. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — BBC online - UK)

The art of making sound visible was first conceived in 1912 by Dr Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian litterateur, scientist, artist and philosopher who lived in Europe from 1861 to 1925. “This form of movement is not a dance, nor a mime, but an art of movement, making visible speech and music,” explains Thomas Sutter, who has led the group for the past decade. “Eurythmy uses for its expression the most flexible of all instruments – the human body.” (Wednesday January 20th, 2016 — Free Press Journal - Mumbai, India)

Shepherd Valley Waldorf School (SVWS) is launching a pioneering “Sensible Tuition Model” designed to offer private education for a significantly wider range of Boulder Valley families. The SVWS Board of Directors announced a significant reduction in annual tuition rates for the 2016-2017 academic year and a commitment to hold the new rates steady for at least three years. (Wednesday January 20th, 2016 — Left Hand Valley Courier - Niwot, Colorado USA)

arget Corporation -- one of the country's largest retailers -- has announced it is dismantling cages from its egg supply by 2025. On Monday, ConAgra Foods -- maker of Egg Beaters and other popular food product brands -- announced it too is switching to 100 percent cage-free eggs. Working with such big-name companies on this commitment prompts me to reflect further on the swift and startling progress in our campaign to end the use of the battery cage in American agriculture. (Wednesday January 20th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

City Garden focuses more on the outdoors than mainstream schools typically do. The children go to recess in Peace Park daily. They also spend all of their Fridays outside except in the worst of mid-Missouri weather. ... City Garden School developed from a Waldorf-inspired preschool called Garden Gate School. (Tuesday January 19th, 2016 — Columbia Missourian - Missouri School of Journalism, USA)

For the second year in a row, Denmark is the most wind-powered country in world history, Danish officials announced this weekend. The Scandinavian country produced a whopping 42 percent of its electricity from wind power in 2015, the highest proportion ever achieved by a country, according to Denmark’s utility company, Energinet. (Monday January 18th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

Home visits consist of the primary class teacher going to meet the family in their own surroundings as a way to better understand who the child is, what their home life is like and to begin a critically important relationship with the family. (Monday January 18th, 2016 — Sonoma Index-Tribune - Sonoma, California USA)

Eight young students from South Korea are attending classes at Viroqua’s Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School (PRWS) for three weeks from Jan. 3-22. (Wednesday January 13th, 2016 — Swnews4u - Lancaster, Wisconsin USA)

With the eyes of the world turned on Paris for the ongoing COP21 climate talks, a plan to end food waste in France’s grocery stores is back on track. On Wednesday, the French parliament reintroduced—and passed—legislation that would require supermarkets to give unsold items that are nearing their sell-by date to charity or turn them into animal feed. (Monday January 11th, 2016 — TakePart.com)

Some Spanish growers take things a step further, by focusing on biodynamic greenhouse vegetables. (Monday January 11th, 2016 — FreshPlaza - The Netherlands)

... the remaining performing elephants will be phased out of circus acts by this May, a full 18 months ahead of schedule, reports the Associated Press (Monday January 11th, 2016 — Care2.com)

The pandemic of children’s attention deficit spectrum and emotional disorders appears linked to precocious challenges in childhood development. (Friday January 8th, 2016 — Wall Street Journal - USA)

The tortoise found only on Pinta Island (Chelonoidis abingdoni) went formally extinct in 2012, when its last representative, a male held in captivity and nicknamed Lonesome George, died. ... Ten years ago our genetic research program made a very surprising discovery. Some tortoises on Volcano Wolf, on Isabela Island, didn’t match others normally found on the volcano (Chelonoidis becki). Instead, their DNA matched that of the extinct species from Floreana and Pinta. ... Our recent expedition was aimed at finding the animals with a high proportion of ancestors from Floreana or Pinta. (Thursday January 7th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

We urge Napa Valley grapegrowers to use organic and biodynamic methods if they perceive the need to control weeds. We also urge the Napa Valley Vintners and our local agricultural commissioner to enable consumers to search for wine producers using organic and biodynamic grapes on their websites. Lastly, we encourage consumers to purchase wines that are labeled “organic” or “biodynamic,” or as having been “made with organically grown grapes.” (Tuesday January 5th, 2016 — Napa Valley Register - California USA)

To give any resolution a proper chance to materialize, we would need to start with a fresh Will at the Spring Equinox: around March 20 in the North, and around September 20 in the South. But then what do we do in January? Rudolf Steiner ponders: "The Winter will arouse in me the Summer of the Soul." (From Week 30, The Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner) (Monday January 4th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

Impy Pilapil’s works have been influenced by Austrian philosopher and polymath Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who developed “anthroposophy,” which teaches that people can discover truths through research and observation. It encompasses metaphysics, natural science and art. Those who have followed Steiner include artists Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and architect Richard Neutra; they believed that the arts could make indefinable, spiritual laws comprehensible to the senses. As a result, their works have taken an organic character. (Friday December 18th, 2015 — Inquirer.net - UK)