by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics, www.gustorganics.com. America is an overfed and undernourished country. About 80 percent of the population is considered overweight, and almost one-third is obese. According to the National Cancer Institute, serious diseases that are linked to what we eat kill an estimated three out of four Americans […]
Environment
5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens
by Leah Zerbe, an online editor at Rodalenews.com. I lived a pretty dysfunctional farm life growing up. The fields were filled with corn or soy commodity crops, not delicious, nourishing people food. My late grandfather’s pigsty and chicken coop were long-abandoned and falling apart, and no one particularly cared to fix them up. The farm […]
My Father’s Hankies and the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day
WTF do these two things have to do with each other, you ask? I’ll explain. I was sitting at the computer this morning and I went to clean my glasses. I’ve been using my father’s hankies to clean them. My father died over 20 years ago, but I’ve only recently come into possession of his […]
10 Surprising Ways to Restore Our Oceans (and Our Seafood)
In a previous post, I wrote about Oceana, Ted Danson’s amazing book. He’s got a lot of great save-the-ocean tips in there for what you can do to keep our oceans clean, and help to protect the magical life beneath its surface. But I thought of 10 more ways that might surprise you, and which […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Ted Danson
Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe—the massive destruction of our planet’s oceanic biosystems and […]
The Long-Lost Return of Spring
Finally, FINALLY, finally, spring is officially here. Is it just me, or has this been the longest, darkest, and most depressing winter ever? Well, good riddance to winter, if you ask me. The snowdrops are up, the little green buds are popping out, the willow trees are yellow, and the little frogs that sound like […]
Eat Trash, Save the Planet
By guest blogger Jeremy Seifert After four years of nonprofit work, Jeremy recently cofounded the production company Compeller, focusing on documentaries that tell stories from the heart and seek to reconnect us to each other and the Earth, while inspiring real change in society. Dive! is Jeremy’s first film and has been well received around […]
Cleaning Is Praying. Praying Is Cleaning!
I recently read a wonderful novel by a Turkish author, Elif Shafak, called The Forty Rules of Love. It’s a powerful book, but one of the lines that struck me most was “Cleaning is praying. Praying is cleaning.” Why? Well, to me, the feeling of being in a totally clean place is so peaceful and […]
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.
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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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