There’s a controversy in Britain at the moment about a new report that claims to prove that organic food is no better for you than chemically agro-grown food.
The report was written by the government’s Food Standards Agency, which compared 55 scientific studies comparing organic and non-organic produce. Of course, the Soil Association (Britain’s organic food [...]
A friend of mine recently came down with a hideous, unexplained rash on his arm. It kept him awake at night, itching and burning. I met him in the local health food store, lurking like a leper by the peaches, with big bags under his eyes.
Our local health food store is also the local community [...]
Germany just recently joined a number of other European countries who have banned Monsanto GMO (Genetically Modified) corn from being grown in the country.
Monsanto corn has until now been the only GMO crop grown somewhat widely in Europe, the EU having been wary of GMO crops overall since their introduction to the global food market. [...]
As the weather heats up Sugar shacks across the East coast are getting ready for boiling. You can tell a spring day by the streams of smoke rolling up above the maple forests. What most people don’t know is that the maple syrup industry uses tons of chemicals and animal products such as bacon fat [...]
Scientists have shown that in order to keep global warming and climate change from reaching truly devastating levels every country needs to lower its carbon output by 27% each year. That means starting now. Kyoto II, a plan to be decided on at meetings in Copenhagen next autumn, has the potential to completely change the [...]
All the parents of teenaged girls I know in California have daughters in crisis. Several are in treatment for drugs, alcohol, mental health and/or eating disorders. One started cutting. Another has a pending felony charge, related to things she did on meth. These are not the daughters of people struggling against appalling conditions in the [...]
In another post I wrote about honesty and common respect for other people’s property. I had the impression that I remembered a time when there was a lot more of that, so I did some homework and discovered a STAGGERING FACT: When I was born, in 1962, there were roughly half as many people on [...]
Plant guilds are formed when we intentionally grow plants that are mutually beneficial to each other near one another. This is also sometimes called a “community of plants”. Companion planting is also related to this practice. This is both an excellent theory to follow when creating permaculture garden spaces, and also when working to organize [...]
For this Quebec based non-profit organization the profession of clowning is no laughing matter. Dr. Clown provides extensive training and support for all of it’s performing artists, who serve as an enthusiatsic therapeutic clowning crew to a range of medical institutions (mostly on the island of Montreal). The main mandate of the organization is to [...]
A group of naturopathic medical students from Bastyr University near Seattle, Washington launched a company this year called Medfinds.com.
Their intention was to create an online networking and search tool for alternative practitioners and patients to connect, but the site has become something more of an information resource for the broad public. Denouncing the pharmaceutical sponsorship [...]
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