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31 Mar

Interviews with a Real Foodist

Posted by Lindsay in America, FDA, Food Not Lawns, Nina Planck, Real Food, Traditional Foods, Weston A. Price, action, agriculture, animals, composting, conventional food myths, crisis, desire, divinity, earth, eating, education, ethics, fast food, food, gardening, global healing, health, lifestyle incentives, meat, michael pollan, nutrition, organics, quoting. 2 Comments

FoodRenegade posted this (following) great interview with the beautiful Nina Planck (of Real Food: What We Should Eat and Why), today in anticipation of Planck’s new book which goes officially on sale today: Real Food For Mother & Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two & Baby’s First Foods. She’s a wonderful advocate for real [...]

31 Mar

At Home in the Garden

Posted by Lindsay in Celebratory, Farming, Food Not Lawns, Real Food, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, Vegetables, agriculture, choices, community, eating, education, environment, ethics, nature, news, nutrition, permaculture, sharing, sustainability, videos. Leave a Comment

Where does your food come from?

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
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29 Mar

Edison’s Day

Posted by Lindsay in Introduction, childhood, children, choices, community, consciousness, divinity, education, hope, imagination, inspiration, knowledge, labeling, learning, life, lifestyle incentives, quoting, sharing, soul, spirituality, videos. Leave a Comment

Sorry, for some reason wordpress won’t let me embed this but if you have any interest in alternative education and childhood, this is a must-watch video; Edison’s Day is about a typical day in the life of a 20 month-old boy being raised by his Montessori-trained parents. In it you will find abundant ideas [...]

28 Mar

Some Tips for A Would-Be Philosopher

Posted by Lindsay in Greek Philosophers, Introduction, Jewish Buddhists, Tao, Unified Theories, Universe, beauty, comparatives, consciousness, ego, ethics, faith, history, knowledge, life, meaning of things, mysticism, mythic, nature, physics, poetics, politics, presence, religion, sacred scriptures, soul, spirituality, transcendentalism, truth. Leave a Comment

I didn’t even know there was a Philosophers Magazine…here is a philosopher’s letter to his Intro to Philosophy class, explaining what philosophy is and how to do it.
Welcome To My Philosophy Class
Lecturer Wayne Buck has written a letter to his students explaining what philosophy is, and how to do it.
Note to the reader: After [...]

28 Mar

Tonight’s the Night

Posted by Lindsay in action, astronomy, beauty, blogging, changing the world, choices, community, creativity, earth, education, ethics, sharing, videos. Leave a Comment

8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark [...]

27 Mar

A Farm for the Future

Posted by Lindsay in Biology, Celebratory, Delicious, Farming, Food Around the World, Food Not Lawns, Garden, Healing with Food, Lifestyle Inscentives, Real Food, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, Vegetables, action, agriculture, alternative medicine, beauty, choices, community, compassion, desire, earth, eating, education, environment, ethics, food, links, nature, news, organics, permaculture, politics, sharing, sustainability, truth, videos. Leave a Comment

Thanks to the BBC series on The Natural World for bringing us this piece in which wWildlife film maker, Rebecca Hosking, investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her [...]