Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it…
Derek Chauvin’s trial is bringing down the “blue wall of silence” as long-serving officers in the Minneapolis Police Department have testified to Chauvin’s use of excessive force…
A little over a year after the pandemic began, conditions have improved enough that many communities will observe Earth Day in 2021, providing lots of socially-distanced volunteer opportunities...
Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s…
Each spring, I like to share my excitement about nettle, one of the great medicinal plants of the western herbal tradition...
Addiction is often a result of trying to escape a stress, a trigger, or something more, and is most often a symptom of other underlying mental health conditions...
In November, the National Heritage Corridor acquired an adaptive bicycle that allows the disabled or people with mobility issues to enjoy a bike ride...
Despite the difficulties associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, the world added a record amount of new renewable energy capacity in 2020, according…
PTSD, a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening traumatic event...
What if none of the heroes in books or movies ever looked like you? What if you always resembled the villain? What if you and everyone else in the world believed in that vision, so when you placed your Brown body in front of a wall of armored police, by default you became the villain and the police became the heroes?
Sig was first exposed to dowsing by his mother forty years ago when she taught him to dowse with wire coat hangers using his home's underground water pipe as a target. But it wasn't until the summer solstice of 1970 that he realized dowsing was his life work…
Beyond Pesticides and its investigative arm, OrganicEye, filed suit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against two companies that market CBD (cannabidiol) products identified with false or misleading organic status claims. In August 2020, OrganicEye published an…
With his 1979 song "The Rainbow Connection," Kermit the Frog has a place in music history as the recording joins the National Recording Registry. The song has appealed to generations of Muppets fans.
Livestock treatment in the agricultural industry isn’t full of open fields and pet-like treatment of animals. Here’s how to improve the animals’ treatment even if you aren’t in direct contact with them.
The International Herb Symposium is an iconic herbal gathering that has taken place in New England for 30 years, bringing people together from many diverse backgrounds and ways of working with the plants. This year, the Symposium will be making the leap to holding an online conference.
Hawaii is poised to ban more reef-damaging sunscreens that contain avobenzone and octocrylene, chemicals that also have adverse affects on marine life...
My adventure with goldenseal started with three healthy roots I received from United Plant Savers — part of their fall 2012 “give away” to members. At the time, I was living in…
It was an Irish lamb stew, made from our farm’s grassfed lambs, local root vegetables and a bone broth that we…
How an Endorsement from Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert Saved a Small Bookstore. Before last month's Super Bowl, Foggy Pine Books was one of the thousands of small...
There are all kinds of plastic trash in the ocean. Most of it comes directly from land-based activities; the rest from the shipping industry.
A doctor’s personal relationship with his or her patients has a critical effect on their well-being. It is an aspect of healing that goes largely acknowledged, though it has been known since prehistoric times.
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