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Enough with the Climate Denial!
These Two Fellows Are Not Happy If you read My Climate Story, you know that when I wrote I ”feel pretty darn angry about it all” it is an understatement. We are in a climate predicament that results from decades of lies, greed, greenwashing, and denial. And thinking about all that can make you pretty…
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Meatless Monday vs. Meat Only On Monday
Some Scientific Support for a sound idea Take data from 55,504 people’s diets — plus information from 38,000 farms in 119 countries — and what do you find? Peter Scarborough, professor of population health at Oxford, found something incredible. He looked at vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters, and meat-eaters and their food consumption, and how that eating…
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Eating Local Equals Eating Healthful
Windowsill, Patio, Backyard, Community, CSA, Farmer’s Market: All types of Gardening and local farming are great for your health! The previous post encouraged Meatless Mondays and highlighted the vegetable and fruit-focused EAT-Lancet eating pattern. But you will not benefit from this type of food consumption if the fruits and vegetables you eat lack nutritional value. Would…
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What Follows Sweet-Drink Free Sunday? Meatless Monday!
Small Changes Support Climate Minimize Meat for Your Health Eating less meat brings up lots of questions and concerns. Debate around this topic goes from A to Z — ‘I Adore meat!‘ to ‘Zero meat intake is the only way to go!‘ Personally, I fall somewhere in-between but more on the “less meat” end of…
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It’s Not Your Fault
All the Snacks and Plastics Coming At You Are Hard to Avoid In my previous two posts (How Sweet It Is – or Is It?) and (Sweet-Drink Free Sunday), I put a lot on YOU! Instead, I would like to help you find some of the Ease that I wrote about in my very first…
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Sweet-Drink Free Sunday
Start Slaying your Sweet-tooth and Save the Planet In my previous post, my hope was to give you some inspiration to improve your health while moving beyond plastics. You’ll be healthier, the earth will be healthier, and thus you’ll be even healthier — a great example of healthy you > healthy earth > healthy you!…
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How Sweet It Is — Or Is It?
Making Healthy Beverage Choices Can Be Healthy for the Planet Facing the Truth ABOUT Your Sweet Tooth There’s not much I can write about sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages that hasn’t already been said. But here are some highlights (or rather lowlights!). So it’s a good idea to be careful with sodas, sports drinks, energy…
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My Warrior Song: Joy to the World
Working on the climate crisis can be exhausting and at times all-consuming. Just rereading My Climate Story makes me feel exhausted and I hope if you read that post it didn’t exhaust you, too! So, the first thing I’d like to share in this blog are some thoughts about staying in balance. If you want…
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My Climate Story
Why does the climate matter to me? Even though I was not able to have any children — so I will never have grandchildren, or great-grand children, or great-great grandchildren — I feel a huge sadness because of the burden we have left to our young people. Greed and ignorance have made a global mess…
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Why I Started this Blog
Healthy You • Healthy Earth • Healthy You 