Easy New Year’s Resolution — Eat More Berries!
After we eat, our bodies create free radicals in the process of breaking down our food. That’s why we need to eat antioxidant-rich foods with every meal to counteract this … Continue reading
Jose Padua: A poem in which chocolate is a metaphor for the great power hidden inside us
When my daughter asks why we are eating chocolate when we’re supposed to be eating just healthy food now that we’re on diets I explain to her that chocolate contains … Continue reading
Jim Stewart: Birthing a Day
Originally posted on The Blue Hour:
You can hear the ocean early in the morning from here, this house hunkered on the hill, the back side of Soledad Mountain. Mexico…
Video: Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms
First published on Dec 17, 2014 Since 2012, the director of “Speciesism: The Movie” has been secretly using spy drones to investigate and expose the environmental devastation caused by factory … Continue reading
Wendell Berry: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer
From Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet, an interview by Bill Moyers. http://
Rebecca Solnit: Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
The Climate for 2015 It was the most thrilling bureaucratic document I’ve ever seen for just one reason: it was dated the 21st day of the month of Thermidor in … Continue reading
Lewis Turco: Thoughts from the Boston Post Road
[ed. note: I often like to read the early work of an established poet in order to see where he or she started. This poem about automobile pollution was written … Continue reading
Matthew Thorburn: Cicada
. Where do the bees go in winter, their hives shuttered in ice? When spring rains tear down the spider’s web, she strings up another. It seems the same cicadas … Continue reading
Jenne R. Andrews: Looking Through a Window at December
If we could hold this instant– dried amber leaves on nearly bare branches delineating mother of pearl sky— could we find the gold ring we dropped in autumn grass other … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: How to Get Enough Antioxidants Each Day
We need to get a daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day in our food. To reach that minimum, all we have to do is eat lots of fruits … Continue reading
Sierra Club: Fracking 101
Produced by the National Sierra Club and narrated by Edward James Olmos, this animated video outlines the environmental issues about fracking, depicting how methane gas escapes from fracking operations to drive … Continue reading
Deirdre Fulton: On Capitol Hill, Chefs Speak Out for GMO Labeling
‘Having honest, clear labeling of the foods we eat is a fundamental right, one that’s worth fighting for.’ –Tom Colicchio More than 700 chefs and restauranteurs are calling on Congress … Continue reading
Andrea Germanos: To Avert Climate Chaos, Meat Consumption Must Drop, Study Says
There is an “awareness gap” amongst the global public of the link between eating meat and climate change, and that presents a real obstacle to keeping global warming under the … Continue reading
Sarah Van Gelder: 10 Ways Human Rights and Democracy Won in 2014
In 2014, we saw a lot of brutality. Unarmed black men and women were killed by police, women were raped on college campuses and in military barracks, foreign nationals were … Continue reading →