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Learning and Environmental Choices - Part 2
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Serene Ambition
By Rick Fullerton | BioWhile I don’t have any quick fixes to offer, here are a few ideas that may have potential: 1. As within, so without. All change begins with me.Recognize that who we are and what we stand for is the starting point for all significant change. Looking inside ourselves to clarify what is important is an essential step. Wh ...
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Spicy Black Bean Soup
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Karen B.
Review of Pacific Foods Spicy Black Bean Soup it is both gluten free, and vegan. I used some to thicken a casserole, it gave the casserole both thickness and added taste. I heated some up in a bowl with a little water, and ate it as a soup, it was very filling. I packed some in a Thermos with noodles in my child's lunch and the thermos came back e ...
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Learning and Environmental Choices
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Serene Ambition
By Rick Fullerton | BioI continue to be struck by the environmental challenges facing planet earth. With signs of increasing public awareness about the deepening climate crisis, it is gratifying to sense a noticeable shift taking place in my own and others’ behaviour. For instance, I see more and more people supporting recycling programs, cho ...
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Nutritional Testing For CFS
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Healthosity ..
Monday I went for the results of all my lab tests and my SpectraCell MicroNutrient Testing. The nutrient testing is a next generation blood test for measuring specific vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other essential micronutrients within a person's white blood cells (lymphocytes). It is the gold standard for this type of test. I wasn't surpri ...
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To Mammogram…Or Not
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Raine Saunders
Indeed, cancer is a scary thing. For as long as I can remember, women have been advised to start getting mammograms over the age of 40 as part of a preventative program for reducing the risk of breast cancer and/or detecting it early enough to be able to go on the appropriate program to be able to remove it should it be found (i.e., chemotherapy, r ...
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Book Review Wednesday: Books About Endangered Species
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Sierra Club ..
Every Wednesday, we review a selection of new and upcoming books
addressing a specific aspect of environmentalism. This week we’re
recommendingbooks about endangered species.Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard, $28, Grand Central Publishing,
Sept. 2009): ...
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Rice Nog for the Holidays
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Dr. Stephen Wangen
Since we're on a rice theme I wanted to tell you about a new product that my family discovered this year. You've all heard of Eggnog, that incredibly rich, fatty, heavy, calorie laden and allergenic product that humans like to drink this time of year. Of course, if you should be avoiding dairy and/or egg (or simply care about your health, which I ...
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The Vegetarian Myth
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Mark S.
Wow.It isn’t often that I write book reviews (have I ever? – serious question), but it isn’t often that a truly important book like Lierre Keith’s The Vegetarian Myth pops up on my radar just begging for one.You may remember it from a brief mention I gave back in September, or maybe from Dr. Eades’ endorsement of it. Y ...
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Green Your Holiday Meals: All Those Leftovers
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Sierra Club ..
Working up a menu for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or any of the other upcoming winter holidays? This week’s tips will help you be environmentally responsible while planning that feast.Tip #3: Do Right With What’s LeftIf there’s one thing synonymous with American holidays, it’s lots and lots of leftovers. So what to do ...
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Autism Research, Treatment and Cure
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Harold L D.
My son Conor is 13 and has a diagnosis of Autistic Disorder. He is assessed with profound developmental delays. His initial diagnosis of PDD-NOS at age 2 was changed to Autistic Disorder a short time later. In the 11 years since his diagnosis there have been significant changes in autism service delivery for children here in New Brunswick and e ...
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