Accelerated Aging Strikes Again: Maria Rodale on aging gracefully.

Maria Rodale writes about studies that are finding that genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are now found in almost all our processed foods including non-organic corn and soy, cause accelerated aging.

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Moving Beyond the Untouchable Topic by Phila Hoopes

I believe that this is the key to real and lasting change, not on behalf of the planet, but in partnership with Spirit, the People, and the Earth, and that each of us is capable of that partnership.

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Why Women Business Owners and Sustainable Businesses Are a Powerful Combination

Both women-owned businesses and sustainable businesses are fairly new trends in business. Neither had an impact until perhaps the past 20 years, and weren’t even a consideration during the Industrial Revolution when many of our business practices were established. Now, however, they are both positioned to significantly change the way we do business in the 21st century.

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To Walk In Beauty: Excerpt from Moonrise, edited by Nina Simons with Anneke Campbell

I want my students to be removed from the terror of wanting something
different, to know that they belong on the planet, that they belong in their
bodies, that they’re here as precious beings for a purpose, to connect with
other beings and to remove the illusion of separation between us all. I want
them to know that it requires incredible discipline and perseverance and
imagination to create change.

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Ladies, the World Needs You To Be Less Plastic, by Mary Clare Hunt

Is this India? Mexico? No, it’s Long Beach, California after a rain. It’s what happens when the 51 miles of LA river channel washes whatever is in it into the Queensway Bay in Long Beach. We don’t have to travel to one of the five ocean gyres where plastic swirls and chokes the life out of our marine animals; we can walk on water right here and spend millions cleaning it up. It gives new meaning to, “What a waste…” The screen shot above came via the live stream of the  TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch conference held in Long Beach, CA organized by the Plastic Pollution Coalition. The actual event had limited seating but anyone could attend virtually via house parties. Hopefully they’ll post the presentations for later replay. As shocking as the above is to look at, the statistics on what we are doing to our oceans and LAND by using single use plastics and then throwing it away are scary. You don’t have to believe in climate change to see that we drastically need to change the way we relate to this pervasive pollutant. A few of the not-so-fun facts from the conference: •               Over 2.4 million pounds of plastic are being dumped into our […]

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