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Wake Up and Do The Right Thing

Dear Friends, We live in awesome times. It is obvious that the earth is groaning, that something has got to change. It is as if Life itself is saying to us—“Wake up and do the right thing!” The goo...

Permaculture: Solving The World’s Hunger Project While Saving The Planet

Dear Friends, In our email (newsletter) last week we focused on Permaculture as a means to turn our earth into a “Garden of Eden”, feed the world’s 800,000,000 starving people, and bring back their...

The Permaculture Master Plan

Dear Friends, Last week I gave you a brief overview of Via Campesina, Food Sovereignty, Eco-agricultural farming and Permaculture. These concepts/associations/practices are of paramount importance ...

The Rule of Free Market Ideology: Interlinking Money, Power and Poverty

By Dohrea Bardell Introduction In William Morris (1891) News from Nowhere, the protagonist, William Guest— after a rousing evening at the Socialist League, arguing, rather loudly, “what would happe...

Food Sovereignty, Eco-agriculture: Our Planet's Salvation

Dear Friends, Can You Identify this Beautiful Creature? If you happened to miss last weeks email, go to our website, click on the Publishing Blog, and read it. It is important! It sets the stage fo...

The Green Revolution Disaster

Dear Friends, When we focus on the biosphere we are examining the big picture, for what is the biosphere but the phenomena of life itself? This week we will continue to illuminate the major causes ...

In The Name of Global Equality: Power Acquisition and Corruption of the African Elite

By Dohrea Bardell Introduction In the rush for global economical equality, many of the Third World governments signed up for hefty loans from the World Bank in order for them to develop and moderni...

Reductionist Thinking In Medicine: The Good and the Bad of It

Dear Friends, How do the policies for sustainable economy, environmental quality and social equity interact with the equation of health? Over the last nine months we have been discussing, in our we...

Immunomodulation By Probiotics Part 2

Dear Friends, There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting immuno-stimulation by probiotic bacteria in the gut can enhance immune protection at distal mucosal sites, such as the urogenital an...

Immunomodulation by Probiotics Part 1

Dear Friends, We are going to take a breather this week from diving deeper into the details of immunomodulation of the immune system by probiotics, and instead I am devoting this email to many of y...