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Support Grows for Smart Meter Opt-Out Legislation

The legal right to refuse a smart meter is “fundamentally an issue of the principle of choice,” testified Rep. Tom Conroy (D) Wayland at the Telecommunications Committee hearing...

Drug-free Cancer Treatment: Ketogenic Diet

A ketogenic diet has been used as a first line of treatment in managing epilepsy in children since the early 90's...

Snowden's Guardian Transcript A Chilling Read

Snowden's articulate rendering of the facts, including the truth about covert government intelligence operations against the American people carried out with corporate complicity, makes for a chilling transcript read...

Barbecues Vs. Drones

A short story about drones over Pakistan excerpted from an interview with pastor Jim Wallis by Sarah van Gelder, co-founder of Yes! Magazine...

Don't Remove Your Breasts Until Reading the NCI Disclaimer

The celebrity-style announcement of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy to "prevent" breast cancer has injected a new level of fear and disinformation about breast cancer into public discussion.

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...