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The Mess We’ve Made

Dear Friends, I know that last week I told you that this week I’d be introducing you to some incredible people and organizations that are “hitting the nail on the head” when it comes to providing l...

Deep Time

Dear Friends, Last week I had the privelage of hearing Dr. Peter Ward, Astrobiologist and Paleontologist, lecture at the University of Washington. The lecture was entitled: Who is afraid of the big...

BioImmersion’s Midterm Quiz

Dear Friends, All of our discussion about eco schools and the education of our children and young adults (and old adults for that matter) over the past few Newsletters has put me in a teaching fram...

Heroes In Your Own Neighborhood

Dear Friends, As you delve into the wonderful movement we call sustainable living, I suspect you will find the same thing in your neighborhood as I have found in mine: there are people and organiza...

Therapeutic Foods Help Your Body

Dear Friends, How are you doing? Enjoying the winter? Winter weather in Seattle brings out the tropics in me. I just checked out last January’s Newsletter in our website’s archives and was amazed t...

Champions for Saving Our Planet

Dear Friends, I hope you had a wonderful Holiday break!!! 2010 is here. It feels good, doesn’t it? A new decade! Are we on the verge of a global paradigm shift that will make right our failing worl...

1.4 Billion Starving People and Counting

Dear Friends, We wish for all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! In this newsletter we will continue to discuss some of the key points from Dr. Eric Holt-Gimenez’s (Executive Director o...

Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice

Dear Friends,   As I promised in last weeks Newsletter, I will share the key points from the lecture Eric Holt-Gimenez, PhD, gave at the University of Washington, Nov 30, 2009, on the tenth anniver...

East meets West: What about North meeting South?

Dear Friends, We like to say that holistic medicine is a merging of the medical philosophies and practices of the East and the West—and it is. I, myself, am a sanyasin, a Zen Buddhist, a Christian;...

HMP: Reductionist verses Holistic Thinking in Medicine

Dear Friends, The announcement by the National Institute of Health (NIH) that the NIH Human Microbiome Project (HMP) provides “opportunities to improve human health through monitoring or manipulati...