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02/22/2012Read More
Organic gardening avoids the use of chemicals to make plants grow or protect them from insects, relying instead on natural gardening principles used for thousands of years. Permaculture organic gardening goes a step further and also emphasizes growing plants sustainably, working with rather than against the grain of the natural environment. Permaculture organic gardening [...]
02/21/2012Read More
By James Howard Kunstler The misalignment of politics and reality threatens to scuttle both major parties, but it’s especially gratifying to see the Republicans sail off the edge of their own flat earth on the winds of religious idiocy. For forty years it has not been enough for them to just be a conservative [...]
02/21/2012Read More
Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell University research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought. The researchers studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles — a common, FDA-approved material found in substances from food additives to vitamins — affected how well [...]
02/21/2012Read More
I contemplate divorce everyday. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn’t quite pieced out that I’m not viable before 10 A.M. It puts two hands on my forehead and mercilessly presses when [...]
02/20/2012Read More
For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn’t end there. Almost exactly nine years ago, opposition to the US invasion of Iraq was reaching a fever pitch. On February 15, 2003 millions of people around the world rallied to [...]
02/20/2012Read More
The thyroid has a big job: The hormones it secretes help regulate heart rate, maintain healthy skin, and play a crucial part in metabolism. When the gland is sluggish (hypothyroidism), it can rob you of energy, dry out your skin, make your joints ache, cause weight gain, and kick-start depression. When it becomes overworked—hyperthyroidism—and [...]
02/20/2012Read More
Challenges are part of everyone’s life, but there are dark moments when a challenge turns into a crisis. The outcome of our lives depends on the choices we make at those moments. Will they be breakthroughs or setbacks? What we call wisdom is a crucial tool here. Without it, people usually make their most important [...]
02/20/2012Read More
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled [...]
02/19/2012Read More
The Network – Circa 2002 Yes, it’s true. Martha Stewart was, at one time a syndicated column in The Network newspaper. Please don’t judge us too harshly, but if you do … that’s ok! The Network has networked to include such greats as… Andy Rooney, Caeleigh Fowler (Caeleigh’s Canada), Linda Leatherdale, Barbara Colorosso, Bob Pennington(Marketing-Ideas), [...]
02/19/2012Read More
Business can only hope to rescue the world from the escalating economic crisis if it consciously sets out to “do good” instead of merely concentrating on the bottom line. And companies that do so will actually become more profitable. Utopian? Idealistic? Impractical? The sort of thing you’d expect to hear from the Archbishop of [...]
