In 1836, a couple named Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were the first emigrants to travel the full length of the Oregon Trail. Narcissa became the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains, and in 1843 Marcus led a wagon train of 1,000 pioneers up the deadly trail, starting the first Great...

EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I am a bartender in Sacramento and I would love to be able to use some sort of locally made or sustainable version of sugar. What’s out there? – Ryan Seng, via e-mail It sure would be nice if we could obtain...

My junior year of college I had the great misfortune of getting ringworm. How a twenty-one year old student in a college town with no contact with small children managed to get ringworm while not a single other person I knew or lived with did is a mystery I don’t think the universe ever...

Holistic medicine sometimes known as “natural healing” places its emphasis on the whole body, taking into account environmental, nutritional, physical, and emotional factors. It is also referred to as alternative medicine because it embraces techniques that are not readily accepted by...

Massage is one of the oldest forms of medicinal therapy in human society.  Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt as far back as 2000 B.C. depict “healers” using hand and foot massage to help heal the sick. Massage has been written about in books from as early as 500B.C. and can be found in the...

In this day and age of hurried schedules and higher levels of stress, it sometimes seems like a battle to maintain our sanity. Some have opted for pharmaceuticals, some use exercise to gain equilibrium, and some just bury themselves deeper and deeper into work and responsibilities. But as we...