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Blueberry, the Perfect Food for Baby Boomers

Dear Friends, In last week’s email I took you on travels into Southeast Asia and North Africa. This week we will start a virtual journey into our brain! Do you remember the one supplemental product...

Garlic, a World Travelers Best Friend

Dear Friends,   Well, my good friends, we’re about a week from it being officially summer and we are still officially waiting for a real nice sunny day here in Seattle! In the spirit of positive th...

Theistic Evolution: "The Language of God"

Dear Friends, Last week we looked at the shear magnitude of life on earth.  It’s breathtaking—roughly ten million visible species and perhaps as many as a billion microbial ones, filling every cran...

Harbinger to Mass Extinction

Dear Friends, Not counting the microbial world, and just looking at the plant and animal world, how many species would you estimate that there are on mother earth? The rough estimate would be aroun...

The Rocky Mountain Institute

Dear Friends, A major purpose for our Forward Thinking Newletter is to connect the dots, to introduce you to the people who are working effectively towards bring about a world that is socially equi...

Ready for the Sixth Mass Extinction?

Dear Friends, We are beginning to wake up.  We desperately need fresh air! We are awakening to the understanding that life on earth has the power, in the way that it behaves, to alter the very comp...

Destruction of the Great Northern Forest

Dear Friends, To your right, the Spirit of the Northwoods greets you. Its home, the great Boreal Forest encircling the Artic. In total, the boreal forest covers 6.41 million square miles. Also call...

Astronaut Revelations

Dear Friends,   At this very moment I’m 30,000 feet over gorgeous northern California on my way to LA, thinking of all those people down there. What an awesome experience it must be to view mother ...

What is the Biosphere?

Dear Friends,   It’s spring.  It’s time to check out the soil, plant the garden, watch life sprout and grow.  Watch the biosphere do its thing. Two questions for you: What is your definition of the...

The Power of Dirt

Dear Friends,   Home, home on the range.  Where the deer and the antelope play.  Where seldom is heard a discouraging word.  And, the skies are not cloudy all day”—a verse from a good old American ...