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Top Ten Tips for Healthy Shopping

Photo by nattmade on Flickr.com Here are some things I keep in mind when I go grocery shopping: Fresh is better than frozen, frozen is better than canned Fresh produce is full of nutrition and far tastier. For veggies, we eat what’s in season. I do keep frozen organic fruits on hand to make the


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MLK

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death”.

Why Glass?

Eight days into the New Year and it seems as though the post-holiday blues have hit. We’ve had more than our usual share of cold dark weather here in Colorado, and all I want to do is go into hibernation, sleeping day and night. Of course, that’s not what’s taking place in my reality. This


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City Survey

A debate is brewing here in Boulder about a survey that the City Council wants to send out to 3,500 citizens. The cost of the survey would be $100,000 and the results would come in just before at least 4 (though possibly 7) of our 9 incumbent council members vacate their seats. Below is a


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Fed Fights Mad Cow Testing

Creekstone Farms wants to protect your health. The USDA, however, is against this. This premium producer of high quality beef sued the USDA for denying it permission to test their cattle for mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse). Creekstone Farms has their own slaughterhouse and processing facility. They do not use


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The Terminator

I never, ever thought I’d be calling the Terminator an activist, however, Ahhhnold is my new hero. He not only sued the EPA once for failing to implement carbon dioxide regulations, he is now threatening to do so again! That’s the short of it. The whole story is quite convoluted. The EPA claimed that it


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David Steinman

David Steinman, founder of the Green Patriot movement, is an acclaimed author, environmentalist and health consumer advocate. His books include: Diet for a Poisoned Planet (1990) Seafood Safety (1991) The Safe Shopper’s Bible (1995) Living Healthy in a Toxic World (1996) Safe Trip to Eden (2007) Steinman has testified before Congress as an expert witness


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Carlo Petrini

The Slow Food Movement was born in Italy in1986 when Carlo Petrini organized a protest against the building of a McDonald’s in Rome. Petrini founded Slow Food International three years later, renouncing not only Fast Food, but the overall pace of Fast Life. Issuing a manifesto, the movement called for the safeguarding of local economies,


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Monica Moore

Monica Moore is a founding member of the worldwide organization Pesticide Action Network and has worked on pesticide issues for close to three decades. Although she keeps a low profile, she is a hero in the environmental movement, having received numerous awards, most recently “Advocate of Social Justice” from the Ecological Farming Association. She co-founded


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Future of Food

Did you know that farmers are being sued for growing food? Did you know that a company can purchase the genetic “patent” for a seed that has existed for thousands of years? Did you know that one company could eventually “own” all of the seeds in the world and that you could be arrested for


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Tyrone Hayes

Dr. Hayes, a professor at the University of California Berkeley, studied the hormone disrupting effects of the pesticide, atrazine on frogs. In reaction to the study’s results, Syngenta, the manufacturer of atrazine, went on a witch hunt to discredit Dr. Hayes and his research. I have seen Dr. Hayes speak at conferences; he is a


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A Rose by Any Other Name

According to Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet – 1594), “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” unless it’s not actually a rose, that is. Unfortunately, when it comes to avocados, we have a problem here. More specifically, guacamole. You see, Kraft is calling a green dip it makes “guacamole.” However, this dip is


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Fun Raiser

Some school fundraisers are very desirable –a true service to both the school and the people that buy into them. One such fundraiser is the satsuma sale at my children’s Waldorf school. I like to think of this sale as more of a fun raiser, than a fundraiser. Every year, their school, Shining Mountain organizes


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