The best kind of love comes from within and radiates joy, respect, and pleasure to everyone around you. Sometimes I think that’s our real job on this earth—really learning how to love, and listening to that voice to the exclusion of all others.
Random Thoughts
Role of a Lifetime: Meryl Streep as Eco-Activist Mom
by guest blogger Wendy Gordon. The actress is world-renowned for her ability to transform herself into a character. But few know her as I do, in her real-life role as a transformational environmental health activist.
Why The Artist is The Perfect
Movie For These Times
The Artist didn’t win all those awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture, because it was a silent movie made 80 some years after silent movies were “over.” It won because it showed us – with a delicious and simple story – that through the turbulent changes of technology, the basic human needs are the same.
Where Are All the Disney Princes?
Raising a houseful of princesses comes naturally to me. I’ve raised three of them. They are smart, girl-power-super-strong-and-independent, sparkly sprites who love to dress in fluffy pink things when they are small and sometimes even when they grow up. But the other day, it occurred to me…where are all the princes?
How to Buy Grass-fed Meats
by guest blogger Marilyn Noble. Being an educated consumer isn’t always easy, but the more you learn about where and how your food is produced, the better your eating experience and health will be.
On the Future of Food
The older I get, and the more I believe in the power of nature and the universe, the more magic happens (fueled significantly by Hard Work). Case in point: a little book we just published called The Prince’s Speech—On the Future of Food.
The Prince’s Speech:
A Love Poem to the Future
by guest blogger Laurie David. They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but when I heard Prince Charles’s speech about the future of food, I felt the same kind of jolt I felt the first time I saw Al Gore’s slide show on global warming.
What Women Want for Valentine’s Day
I wrote this post last year and somehow, it got lost in emails and never got posted. Fortunately, what women really want for Valentines Day hasn’t really changed, has it?
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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