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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 ...

Via Campesina: a Light To Feeding The World

Dear Friends,   La Via Compensina (The Way of the Peasant) is a worldwide organization created to protect the rights of the peasants. In their document, The Declaration of Rights of Peasants – Wome...

Collective Bad Habits Are Killing Us

Dear Friends, Daily habits are hard to break! We know that bad habits are destroying our health and de-evolving our world. But we tend to forget that the most fundamental of our habits, and the mos...

The Cure: Systemic Thinking

Dear Friends, We have been looking at remarkable individuals, companies, and organizations over the last several months. The very kind of groups we need to support and create more of—to right a wor...

ZERI: Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives

Dear Friends, Last week we focused on ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives), a growing organization of scientists worldwide that promotes the principle of zero waste. All manufactured prod...