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What is the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)?

Dear Friends, What is the microbiome? Can you define it? The National Institute of Health defines it as the full collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, virus, etc) that naturally exist within the...

Our Placenta to Mother Earth

Dear Friends, I was pouring over Howard Yana-Shapiro’s and John Harrison’s tremendous book, Gardening For The Future Of The Earth (2000), learning how to build, nurture and prepare the soil of our ...

A Conversation with Q

Dear Friends, I would like to share with you part of the interview with Q—Larry Kuser, who along with his wife Suzie, own the magnificent Fernbrook Farm. As you will see, he makes some very importa...

New York City Coalition Against Hunger

Dear Friends, We are finally back home after our week’s trip on the East Coast. I would like to share with you a series of serendipity encounters, that expanded our connection with those who are wo...

The Eradication of Hunger

Dear Friends, I feel like the Mafioso character in the Godfather movies, whose comment, as he was trying to extract himself from being a part of the Mafia, was something like this, “Just when I tho...

How Hungry is Our World

Dear Friends, We hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day break. This week’s discussion will continue with the theme of last week’s topic—hunger. Many of you were away last week and I fear missed the...

No Excuse For Hunger

Dear Friends, Let’s face it—there absolutely is no acceptable excuse for hunger in the world. It is a problem that we can fix worldwide, so that no human being is without goodfood and clean water. ...

Changing Our World For Good

Dear Friends, Nature urgently needs our good works! Together we can indeed bring back, re-create even, a healthy biosphere. But in order for our world to heal, we must all commit to do something—al...

Running Our of Fresh Water

Dear Friends, Last week I introduced you to Maude Barlow—the founder of the Blue Planet Project and one of the leading activists in the world. Barlow works ceaselessly to promote clean, drinkable w...

The De-evolution Of Our Planet

Dear Friends, Like it or not, we are in a battle to save the health of this planet—to resurrect the health of the biosphere because it is failing! If we continue down the path we are on, life will ...