All Economies Are Local
If communities want to enjoy the benefits of a robust economy, each municipality must become a high performing, self-reliant economic engine operating on four cylinders...
Taking Action Fends Off Global Indifference
One in five children will go to sleep hungry tonight in the United States. Most of us respond to hearing facts like these by turning away, closing off, thinking our training inadequate, our power too small...
10 Ways To Invite New Spring Energy Into Your Home
In traditional spring cleaning we get out the mop and sponge and roll up our sleeves. But when the buds are coming up from the ground and the air is fresh, a new, vibrantly alive energy also arrives...
Food: The Weak Link
The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled...
Healthy Bodies Need Healthy Soil
I spend my days in a sterile 8x10 room practicing family medicine and yet my mind is in the soil. This is because I’m discovering just how much this rich, dark substance influences the day-to-day health of my patients...
Halting Smart Meter Installation in Massachusetts and Beyond
In January of this year, Governor Patrick announced that the state will pour millions of dollars into “demand response systems” that will advance a mandate to install wireless so-called “smart meters” in Massachusetts...
News & Notes Spring 2014
If we listen to our body, we can pick up the faintest, earliest warnings that something is amiss. With skill, these messages can be detected long before the health issue becomes serious...
Book Review — The Truth About Food: the Good, the Bad and the Downright Dangerous
Warning: trying to eat healthfully may cause serious food confusion...
Book Review — Mixing Essential Oils for Magic: Aromatic Alchemy for Personal Blends
Scents stir our deep memories and in doing so support psychic work and connect us to something beyond ourselves...
Book Review — Love Letter to the Earth
In Love Letter to the Earth beloved monk Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that bodhisattvas don't always take human form...
Book Review — The Dude and the Zen Master
The Dude and the Zen Master explores the often noted, and according to the Coen brothers, unintended, Zen wisdom as the film's appeal...
Feng Shui Tips for Basement Home Office and Living In A Snout House
I’ve recently decided to move my office into my home to save commuting time and rental expenses. The only place available in my home is the basement area...
Musings: Beyond Food
The truth is no one could keep up with all the current nutrition advice because there are too many conflicting choices. Even holistic experts cannot agree on a healthy diet...
EarthTalk: Is Human Overpopulation On the Decline?
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that human overpopulation isn’t such a big issue any more as numbers are expected to start declining in a few decades?
Backyard Wild Spring Greens
For many of us in New England, when we think of spring we get excited to see seed catalogs and start planning our spring gardens in February...
8 Health Benefits of Kissing
Kissing is a uniquely human trait that’s said to have emerged as a way to pass germs from one person to another, ultimately building immunity. But that’s rather unromantic, isn’t it?
Twenty First Century Medicine
"Judgement by Result”, that excellent sieve of the dowsing mix, I first heard when your President (British Society of Dowsers) visited us in Danville, Vermont, in 1975...
Dowsing and Chaga
The snow is almost all gone here in Northern Vermont and it’s the perfect time to get out in the woods and forage, when everything wonderful is starting to come up: Fiddleheads, Ramps (or Wild Onions), Cow Slips...
Space Travel
Here's your chance to go gravity-free for 25 minutes watching this fascinating tour on board the International Space Station...
3 Ways to Fight Colds and Flu with Immune-Boosting Juice
Raw fruit and vegetable juices are great immune system fortifiers, especially during an active infection with a cold or flu.
Travel Companies Boycott "Human Safaris" and 13 Other Victories for Tribal People in 2013
Times have never been tougher for indigenous people living in traditional ways. Yet 2013 saw them winning land rights, fighting misrepresentation in the media, and winning solidarity from unexpected allies...
Daily Astrology
November 26, 2025
Love is in the air. Venus, now in Scorpio, can be prone to jealousy and dramatic scenes. However, the Goddess of Love is part of an amazing Grand Trine configuration featuring Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter...
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