Stop throwing food away! The demand for quick meals and grab-and-go foods has lead to enormous food (and packaging) waste, to the tune of 70 billion pounds per year in the U.S. alone. This means that about 30% of all the food that is produced is thrown away. Yet worldwide, 1 in 9 people are hungry.
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Plastic is one of the most toxic, yet ubiquitous, environmental problems on the planet. It leeches into the bottled water you drink, into the oceans, and the landfills. A single water bottle takes over 1,000 years to decompose, yet only 1 in 5 bottles are recycled.
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The average American consumes about twice as much protein as needed. You can significantly improve your health and our planet’s health by cutting down your beef consumption. Beef production contributes more to climate change than the entire transportation sector.
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In September 2019, we invited people to join us in 21-days of kindness, receiving an email each day with inspirations and ideas of how to express more kindness in the world. In this world where there is increasing polarization, anxiety and frustration, being kind is one way we really can make an impact. It is our power to change the world. The archives of these 21 days can be found here.
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“Searching” may not be the best word to use regarding wholeness, though many of us feel it to be something elusive, or at best found in occasional moments scheduled into our busy days. So why does it feel like a difficult “job” to find wholeness, when presumably, we are already whole? Perhaps what we are really looking for is the time and presence to truly sense ourselves, to listen.
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In the Western world, our lives are often characterized by hurry and overwork. Between work and other responsibilities, there is barely enough time to know how we feel or what we need, much less what our deep personal fulfillment looks like. Annie Dillard famously wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”.
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In each season the environment changes, and our body/mind also shifts during the seasonal transition. Spring is a time of renewal, growth and creativity. Plants are growing quickly, leaves and flowers are emerging and the sap in trees begins to flow upwards again. The energetic expression is upward and expansive.
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Algin, found in all brown algae, and carageenan and agar in many red algae, have great therapeutic value as a heavy metal detoxifying agents. In the diet, they can bind radioactive and heavy metals present in the food stream and carry them out with the stool, since algin is generally not digestible.
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By eating a variety of live fermented foods, you promote diversity among microbial cultures in your body. Biodiversity, increasingly recognized as critical to the survival of larger-scale ecosystems, is just as important at the micro level. Call it microbiodiversity.
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