Making Climate Change Personal
March 4, 2011
By Colin Beavan
In 2006, I became increasingly concerned both about climate change and the military action taken by the United States to secure its access to oil supplies in the Middle East. As a journalist and author, I wanted to find a way to make the case for a lower reliance on fossil fuels and other natural resources to the American and European publics. However, I did not believe a typical political discourse would do the trick.… Read More >
Part II: DETOX, is it Real?
August 13, 2009
By Alejandro Junger, MD
Put down the Zagat Guide and pick up a good book on cleansing and detoxification. It can save your life, and the planet’s. A good book to start with is my book, CLEAN, The revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself. I wrote CLEAN in an attempt to clear the general confusion on detoxification and to prevent something tragic in my opinion. We are at risk of discarding the whole thing… Read More >
This Earth Day, Thinking Ethically—Not Just Locally
April 20, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Paul Shapiro, Humane Society of the United States Who among us hasn’t heard it before? You don’t need to be a foodie to have read that we ought to be eating more locally-grown foods in order to reduce our carbon footprint. And I couldn’t agree more. But the question of eating ethically involves a lot more than just questioning how many miles our food had to travel to get to our plates. I can’t tell… Read More >
