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Swine flu: why are we so surprised?

I have long agitated whenever given the chance, against any type of factory farming–animal or grain or vegetable or fruit. WHY? Because of the statistical probability of failure and disease.  Why are so many of us gravitating toward locally produced, organic food? We know that on so many levels it’s better for us. By the [...]

Hunger is Unacceptable!

One of my teachers, Dattatreya Siva Baba, encourages his students to serve food to those who are hungry. Not just buy some commodities and drop it off at the food bank. No. He means SERVE them. Literally, by going to any place where a hungry person might be and offering them food you have prepared [...]

Women hold up half the sky…

…and produce 60-80% of the world’s food supply in Asia and Africa. Yet these same women–who also bear the children, tend the children, haul the water and wood and cook the food they grow–share few if any of the benefits and incentives their male counterparts receive.

By Job, I think he’s got it!

World population, which is currently 6.5 billion, is growing at 76 million annually, with an expected peak at 9.5 billion by 2070.
For the first time, global population estimates this year show that more people live in cities than in rural areas. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations projects that almost all of [...]

A toast of a different kind

The blogs will be overflowing today with intensely personal reflections on this historic date of January 20, 2009. And as tickled as I was to watch the former president fly away from Capitol Hill this morning (yes, I’ll admit I was screaming FASTER! FASTER! at the tv) there was something else that was mentioned several [...]

For 2009, I pledge to be more like Despereaux!

It’s nearly midnight here in the middle Rio Grande of New Mexico where I live.  I’m spending the evening in a reflective mode, enjoying the near 40 degrees outside rather than the middle teens we had a week ago.  I’ve walked the nature center trail this morning, fed my neighbor’s cat, talked to my children [...]

A K.I.S.S. for Thanksgiving

We could end starvation on this planet if people learned how to plant beans! Do you know how easy it is to plant beans? 2″ apart, 2″ deep.It’s up to the people! (Jimmy Keyes, The Bronx)
Remember this old maxim, KISS?  Keep It Simple Stupid? Well, Jimmy Keyes understands how critical it is in moving out [...]

A Greenhouse: not just about food

The Global Oneness Project (www.globalonenessproject.org) amazes me. As they say on their website they’re “traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.” The GOP (yes, that’s its acronym) [...]

Outrageous Gardens

What if someone told you that they had solutions to world hunger, that these solutions would cost only pennies on the dollar not billions of dollars and that they were accessible to anyone right now? Presumptuous? Idealistic? Perhaps. Impractical? No! For these solutions are the heart and spirit of this website and they are working. [...]