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Maria Rodale Helps Organic Farmers Succeed

Jun 30, 2017 11:37AM ● By Randy Kambic

To spur consumer demand and help farmers, the Rodale Institute performs top-quality research on the benefits of eating organic foods and optimal farming methods.

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Molly Hagan on Eco-Living: Start Small and Stay Committed

May 31, 2017 12:03PM ● By April Thompson

The actress has been award of the need for environmental integrity for 30 years, and weighs every choice from gardening to flooring with sustainability in mind.

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Taggart Siegel Seeks to Seed an Agricultural Revolution

Apr 28, 2017 12:20PM ● By April Thompson

His latest documentary film explores the global drive to rescue traditional seed varieties threatened with extinction by agribusiness practices, in order to ensure humanity’s survival.

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Tony Juniper on How Thriving Ecosystems Sustain Prosperity

Mar 31, 2017 10:31AM ● By Randy Kambic

The environmental advocate and author explains why only policies that acknowledge our need for nature enable us to thrive economically, physically and emotionally.

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Dr. Joseph Mercola on Simple Steps to Well-Being

Feb 28, 2017 12:25PM ● By Judith Fertig

Monitoring seven markers of health, exchanging our usual beverages for water and getting up from our desk every 15 minutes are first steps to robust health.

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Transforming the Way Women Relate to Men: An Interview with Alison Armstrong

Jan 31, 2017 01:28PM ● By April Thompson

Approaching our differences with openness and curiosity rather than assumptions opens up true communication.

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Julia Schopick on Effective, Affordable Medicine

Dec 28, 2016 03:34PM ● By Randy Kambic

Such seemingly intractable conditions as Parkinson’s, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis can respond to surprisingly low-cost treatments.

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Krista Tippett on Our Evolving Spirituality: Why it Evokes Hope

Nov 30, 2016 12:33PM ● By Randy Kambic

The National Public Radio host of On Being discovers deep inspiration shared by the spiritual leaders, philosophers, physicists, biologists and neuroscientists she interviews.

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Kelly Brogan on the Truth About Depression: Why Meds Don’t Work and What Does

Oct 31, 2016 11:13AM ● By Kathleen Barnes

The psychiatrist and author uses food, not pharmaceuticals, to successfully turn around depression.

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Edward Humes on the High Cost of Transportation: Small Consumer Choices Have Big Impacts

Sep 30, 2016 11:20AM ● By Randy Kambic

When we click “buy it now” to purchase, say, a coffee pot, we support a process that has 165,000 miles of trains, planes, boats and truck travel attached to it.

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Inside the Chant with Krishna Das: Kirtan Music Transports Listeners to a Deeper Place

Aug 31, 2016 01:43PM ● By Robin Fillmore

His soothing, rhythmic chants open up soul spaces and connections by which we can feel touched by the Divine.

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Barnet Bain on How Creativity Can Save the World: Fresh Thinking Challenges Rigid Mindsets

Jul 29, 2016 11:50AM ● By Linda Sechrist

If we lock ourselves into a hand-me-down worldview, we lose access to our own deep stores of creativity and wisdom.

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Liza Huber on Healthy Meals and Happy Kids: Start with Homemade, Organic Baby Food

Jun 30, 2016 11:13AM ● By Gerry Strauss

The Passions star is passionately devoted to feeding babies organic fruits and veggies, and helping parents prepare them by hand for an extra boost of health and love.

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Gay Hendricks on Nurturing Love in Midlife: Why Growing Up Can Mean Loving Better

May 31, 2016 01:08PM ● By S. Alison Chabonais

Making love still sparkle later in life means moving out of relationship ruts and opening up to new ways of communing and being together.

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Christie Brinkley Shares Her Secrets to Lasting Beauty: Why She Still Looks Terrific After 40 Years as a Model

Apr 29, 2016 11:01AM ● By Gerry Strauss

She hasn’t eaten meat since age 13, keeps her attitude upbeat and insists on quality beauty products.

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Marie Kondo on the Joy of Tidying Up: Simplicity Invites Happiness into Our Lives

Mar 31, 2016 10:47AM ● By April Thompson

By turning a conventional to-do on its head, Marie Kondo has taught millions worldwide how to gain joy by permanently de-cluttering their homes.

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