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1. Go here and read Greenpa’s whole post about how to take action in the global food crisis.
2. Click and read all the links in the post. If you didn’t know things were this bad, educate yourself now. Stop to think about how things got this way.
3. Write to your representatives. Blog. Tell everybody [...]

Don’t believe it? Cartoon creator Mike Adams wrote an article that just might change your mind at NaturalNews.com.

Come see our giant toxic stew! / 1,500 miles wide, floating in the Pacific, made of all your plastic crap. Bring the kids!
Have you heard? Did you see? It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or Pacific Trash Vortex, among other awesome nicknames) and it’s a staggering phenomenon indeed and after reading up on [...]

Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we?
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility…and worse.

In case you need another reason to start eating local: As Imports Increase, a Tense Dependence on China
China has become the leading supplier of many food ingredients, such as apple juice, a primary sweetener in many foods; garlic and garlic powder, a major flavor agent; sausage casings and cocoa butter.
China now supplies 80 percent of [...]

Here are my results:

FOOD 2.7
MOBILITY 0.2
SHELTER 1
GOODS/SERVICES 0.7
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 5
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.1 PLANETS.
Take the Earth Day Footprint Quiz

From How to Save the World:
Earlier this week a group of students from Caledon Countryside Alliance came to our house, thanks to a government grant, and told us, for free, how to look after our lawn while also conserving water and without using chemicals and other unnatural methods. I promised to share this with my [...]

Dave Pollard believes we’re in deep shit [and so do I] but he’s also offering positive solutions:
A period of great change is always turbulent and unsettling, and the transformation to a Relater-Sharer culture won’t be achieved in our lifetime. So we will need to be, like all pioneers, patient, indefatiguable, and aware that the beneficiaries [...]

The quality and range of America�s daily essentials is being dictated and degraded by a powerful network of Brand Name Bullies and Big Box chains. By �outsourcing� from sweatshops in the factories and fields, by cutting corners on public health and the environment, and by sucking up billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, business behemoths [...]

Now that I’m committed to podcasting an hour-long health show once a week, I am in panic mode. I keep searching the web for health news, research, anything that might make a good first show–and I am in information overload. I can’t make up my mind, not only about a first topic but about the [...]

Doesn’t look like I’ve been doing much around here, but it’s been a busy week. Yup, that’s my new web site, Health Buzz, soon to be HealthBuzz.org. Instead of ranting on bornfamous about our toxic times, I decided to get serious about it.
Right now, there are just a few articles and links to health news, [...]

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Pesticide Poisoning - Symptoms you can miss

MOCK PA ANNOUNCEMENTS: Passengers are advised that tonight’s flight from Sydney to London does pose a health risk. To save fuel, half the air you’ll be breathing during your flight will be recirculated and there is a risk that airborne viruses will not be caught by the filters that recycle your air.
Welcome on board ladies [...]

A new film, “The Corporation” delves into the nature of an Institution
In law, the corporation is a ?person?.
But what kind of person is it?
Considering the odd legal fiction that deems a corporation a ?person? in the eyes of the [...]