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Body Autonomy
Health is an elusive mix of the physical and the emotional, the mental and the spiritual, the individual and the social, the logical and the intuitive. It...
The Birds & The Bees
The first introduction to ecological thinking for many people was The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. It is one of the many books on our students recommendation reading list....
The Personal is Planetary
As a young boy growing up in Northern California, I was blessed with the opportunity to hike and camp in the woodlands of the Sierra Nevada and...
Super Bugs For Super Health - How The Microbiome Protects The Gut
Did you know we are only 10 percent human? Ninety percent of our cells are nonhuman, microbial cells. Humans and our ancestors have evolved since the most...
Great Success with Our Oxford Presentations
Dear Friends Where does the time go? In the blink of an eye, the first quarter of 2024 seemed to pass very quickly. However,...
Macrobiotics and the Microbiome
Over the past twenty years there has been a consistent growth in the study of the human gut biome. We are fascinated with the idea that there...
How I Saved The World 2050
I have written this short essay for submission reporting my vegan advocacy work. The nature of the competition was what one did to contribute to saving the...
Humans Have NO Need To Eat Animal Products
Plant-based vegan diets are healthy and sustainable. This is now irrefutable since every major health institute around the world endorses this way of living. Remember, knowledge is...
Society
At COP28 the conversation is still about money and not feeding the world. Another year, another COP meeting and the environment is back...
Animals
We need to reassess our relationship to the whole animal kingdom and a good place to start is with those non-humans we claim to love the...
Environment
Moving beyond the usual smoke and mirrors of corporate ethics toward cleaner water. We featured water in our last newsletter and here we...
Health
The body is built to pull out what it needs from the available foods. Don’t overthink, simply get a diverse diet. The body (not the mind) chooses...
Peace, Blessings & The Best of Joy
Dear Friends We hope this newsletter finds you well and taking care of yourself. The last three months passed so quickly as both Bill...
Society - Access to Good Food Should Be Easy
Consider this, there are over 800 million people who live in a state of hunger. This figure is contrasted against the 700 million who are obese. 17%...
Animals - Hey kids, Let’s Go to The Zoo
Many American and British people are repulsed by the idea that people in China, Korea, or other parts of the world eat dogs. The practice is called...
Environment - Fanning The Flames
While we were writing this issue of our newsletter, we followed the news of the tragic wildfires that burned the village of Lahaina in Hawaii to the...