Dear Friends,

Last week I had the privelage of hearing Dr. Peter Ward, Astrobiologist and Paleontologist, lecture at the University of Washington. The lecture was entitled: Who is afraid of the big bad climate? What is the worst that global warming could do?
Peter was introduced by University of Washington President, Dr. Mark Emmert. The occasion was […]

Dear Friends,

All of our discussion about eco schools and the education of our children and young adults (and old adults for that matter) over the past few Newsletters has put me in a teaching frame of mind. There will be no Newsletter lecture today because we are having a quiz. Yes, today is your midterm […]

Dear Friends,

As you delve into the wonderful movement we call sustainable living, I suspect you will find the same thing in your neighborhood as I have found in mine: there are people and organizations right in your own community who are doing amazing work to right our world through teaching and implementing sound ecological principles. […]

Dear Friends,

How are you doing? Enjoying the winter? Winter weather in Seattle brings out the tropics in me. I just checked out last January’s Newsletter in our website’s archives and was amazed to find that the creatures highlighted were algae and coral. The […]

Dear Friends,

I hope you had a wonderful Holiday break!!!
2010 is here. It feels good, doesn’t it? A new decade! Are we on the verge of a global paradigm shift that will make right our failing world? I think we are.
Did you see Avatar yet? What a movie—a masterpiece by James Cameron! The story line takes […]

Dear Friends,

We wish for all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
In this newsletter we will continue to discuss some of the key points from Dr. Eric Holt-Gimenez’s (Executive Director of Food First) talk given in Seattle on November 30, 2009—and in particular, how we can truly end hunger in our world!
When we […]

Dear Friends,

As I promised in last weeks Newsletter, I will share the key points from the lecture Eric Holt-Gimenez, PhD, gave at the University of Washington, Nov 30, 2009, on the tenth anniversary of the WTO Protest in Seattle. The lecture was entitled, Food […]

Dear Friends,

We like to say that holistic medicine is a merging of the medical philosophies and practices of the East and the West—and it is. I, myself, am a sanyasin, a Zen Buddhist, a Christian; an adept in yoga, macrobiotics and ayurveda, with 30 years of teaching […]

Dear Friends,

The announcement by the National Institute of Health (NIH) that the NIH Human Microbiome Project (HMP) provides “opportunities to improve human health through monitoring or manipulation of the human microbiome” is a major step forward, merging the holistic approach for building health […]

Dear Friends,

As the holidays approach and we are about to celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday, we would like to thank you, our dear friends, for your dedication and courage in healing, supporting and giving of yourselves to so many people. We thought of you when we designed the Therapeutic Foods, and embraced our overarching theme of […]