Video: Green Smoothie Power
Sergei Boutenko charms us while explaining the connection between diet and disease.
Patricia A. Nugent: The End Times?
It wasn’t the wine that made me ask The Question; it was the conversation over dinner. Since leaving my hometown close to 40 years ago, I rarely get to see … Continue reading
Sandra B. Lubarsky: Toward a Beauty-centric Education
The two statements I hear most often whenever I bring up the subject of beauty are “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and “Beauty is only skin deep.” … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman: How We Win on Climate Change
‘New Orleans: The Seas Are Rising And So Are We.’ Okay, so we had this historic march a little while ago. It was…. …joyous, beautiful, exhilarating, inspiring, life-confirming…and in many … Continue reading
William DeBuys: The Wilderness Act Turns 50
The Ahklun Mountains and the Togiak Wilderness within the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Let us now praise famous laws and the year that begat them: 1964. The first thing … Continue reading
Video: Treating Alzheimer’s with Turmeric
Rural India has the lowest validated Alzheimer’s rates in the world. Is it due to the turmeric in their curry or their largely plant-based diets? Turmeric
Frac Sand Mining Has Hidden Dangers
Major Harm Already Seen to Human Health, Water Quality and Property Values in WI and MN; Rapid Growth of Fracking Could Lead to Similar Mining in IL, MA, MI, MO, … Continue reading
Video: ‘Dear Matafele Peinem” by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
The most interesting part of the United Nations Climate Summit was not a speech by any of the world leaders in attendance, but a poem read by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, a … Continue reading
Video: Collaboration with the new vectors of disease
Appeasement of the junk food industry through partnerships with children’s organizations to steer the focus to inactivity rather than our diet recalls tobacco industry-style tactics and may require tobacco industry-style … Continue reading
Investment in Urban Transit Yields Healthy Cities
Originally posted on The Progressive Paradigm:
Picture attributed to mobilityandthecity.com A recent report by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy concluded that cleaner, more efficient urban transit systems could…
Anna Husain: Equinox Descending
Come with me into the fading meadow where dry fronds of summer past beckon us to the beauty that is weary earth preparing for slumber, where seeds rest and … Continue reading
Video: Our Survival Depends On Keeping The Oil In The Ground
Humanity’s survival depends on not burning two-thirds of our global oil reserves, so we must act now by limiting fossil fuel extraction. The highly biodiverse Amazon basin is a keystone … Continue reading
Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Climate Change You Can Believe In
The pain is only going to get worse for us and for future generations, unless we act now. Just as Sunday’s big People’s Climate March and next week’s UN global … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises
Change in a Time of Climate Change There have undoubtedly been stable periods in human history, but you and your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents never lived through one, and neither … Continue reading
