Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and foss...
Always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
There are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.
Most recently, as the medical value of marijuana has been rediscovered, medicine has been searching for ways to pharmaceuticalize the plant—find a way to harness its easily accessible benefits in a pa...
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.
If we're only going to eat the prime cuts of young animals, we're going to have to raise & kill a great many more of them. And indeed, this has become the rule with disastrous results for both the ani...
One of those rare books that demands you either defend the way you live or change it. Because
What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?
CONSULT YOUR GUT.
Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization—against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltrat...
For me, spiritual is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic con...
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.
To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from the corporations seeking to organize our every waking moment into yet another occasion for...
A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic sal...
You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer's bookshelf. Because what you're feeding your emotions and th...
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