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Letter from Rosemary Gladstar: United Plant Savers 20th Anniversary

These are exciting times for herbalists! We are witnessing the art of herbalism rapidly regaining its rightful place in the American tradition of health and healing...

Harvard Announces Closure of Primate Research Center

A number of proposed bills are attempting to restrict the use of conscientious or philosophical, religious and medical exemptions to mandatory vaccination laws...

Summer Eco Learning Opportunities

This summer, explore learning opportunities in natural building and environmental advocacy...

Smart Meter, Smarter Options

While approximately 40 million smart meters have already been deployed in the United States, serious health, safety, privacy, homeland security, and financial concerns exist over this technology....

New State Vaccine Bills Threaten Vaccine Choices

A number of proposed bills are attempting to restrict the use of conscientious or philosophical, religious and medical exemptions to mandatory vaccination laws...

See Calm, Be Calm with Feng Shui Home Tips

Our homes, which ideally should serve as quiet sanctuaries of peace and nurturing energies to restore our equilibrium, often contribute to our chaos and stress levels instead...

How to Keep Your Cool Without Air Conditioning

8 tips to help you beat the heat this summer....

10 Tips to Restore A Healthy Sleep Cycle

If you are having trouble sleeping on a nightly basis, you know how poor sleep affects your days. However, there are simple steps to take to get real results...

Musings: Make Your Home A Healing Haven

In a sense, we are all homing pigeons. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place you will ever feel more comfortable or secure than in your own home...

Welcoming Pleasure Back to the Table

When you’re turned on by your food, you turn on your metabolism and a whole lot more...

Reiki Success in Fertility Planning

In many areas of the world, medical treatments or health and wellness models include the integration of some type of energy medicine to treat the whole body. When one’s energy is out of balance, the body is impacted in some way...

The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons from Oz

Using the classic Oz narrative as metaphor, Jean Houston reveals the tremendous and timely wisdom conveyed in this archetypal transformation story...

Barefoot Walking: Free Your Feet to Minimize Impact

Turning your feet into living shoes allows you meet the ground correctly and connect to the earth's therapeutic restorative energy...

Beyond 2012: Recreating Ourselves in the Sixth Sun

Sergio Magaña is a teacher of the 4,000-year-old Toltec tradition that understands the timing of momentous shifts occurring in human consciousness at the beginning of this 21st century...

Healthy Home Walk Through

From kitchen, bathroom, glass and all-purpose cleaners to dishwashing detergent, laundry soap and bleach, Environmental Working Group has scoured the chemical ingredients of more than 2,000 different household cleaning products...

Earth Talk: Attract Bees and Butterflies To Your Garden

Dear EarthTalk: I’d like to have a garden that encourages bees and butterflies. What’s the best approach?

Amazing Wrap Sandwiches Are Portable, Delicious Nutrition — Day or Night

Food has a special power to bring people together and to make them feel healthy and vibrant...

Wind-Centered Economy Response

I work in a control room monitoring nine wind farms across North America. I have 5 years of experience in the field both operationally and in the market. I like the enthusiasm in this article...

Atheism Response

I recently read your paper Spirit of Change for the first time. When I came upon your Musings "Atheists Are Alright With Me," (Spring 2013) I paused and began reading it out of curiosity...

How Vintage Campers Will Save The Planet

The COMET (Cost-effective, Off-grid Mobile Eco Trailer) is an exercise in sustainability and small space living. It is an educational tool for children and adults alike. It is a DIY guide for others wanting to pare down...