Biofuels have become a victim of their own success, it appears: for the first time in a decade global production has dropped. Production in 2011 dropped a touch from 1.822m barrels a day in 2010 to 1.819m in 2011, according to IEA statistics (p30) highlighted by the Financial Times. The...

Many people get sick after being at the airports and taking long flights. Traveling can be a real challenge to our immune system: stress, breaking the routine, not-so-great food, exposure to sick people, environmental toxins, and a ton of bacteria circling through the A/C. Jet lag and heavy...

Let’s face it, there’s a lot going on during the holidays and it’s easy to put our health last. Well, you deserve better. Use these five simple tips to sneak health into your holidays without a lot of extra effort and focus. Fast Before You Feast A big part of the holidays is...

I say skip a meal! We live in a busy, tight-schedule always-in-a-rush society at least 5 days out of 7. Meetings, deadlines, family responsibilities, errands, and social life stretch the capacities of our calendars and our physical and mental ones, as well. Often when the day gets super busy,...

Amid growing consumer concern about the safety and sustainability of America’s primarily industrialized food supply, and with big agribusiness racing against the clock to reshape the dialogue to their advantage before the renewal of the Farm Bill, a landmark collaboration of three disparate...

Consider this. If one hundred people were asked what good food is, it shouldn’t be surprising that some would answer “food is only as good as what it’s served on/in.” How something is presented plays a large part in how it is received. That’s why one of my favorite ways to present a...

Farm Sanctuary (www.farmsanctuary.org), the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, and Animal Acres, a California nonprofit, announced an agreement to integrate Animal Acres’ Southern California farm animal shelter, located in Acton, CA, into Farm Sanctuary’s existing...

EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I love to cook and when I have the time I make soups, stews and pasta meals in large batches and freeze them.  I use leftover plastic containers, but I know this is not good. What kinds of containers are safe for freezer food...

This song says it all: “Only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” The energizing summer sun, the ocean breeze and the recent unfolding of a series of beautiful events – the things in life worth waiting for – inspired...

Sometimes the line between living to work and working to live can blur – we all have cable and cell phone bills to pay. But sacrificing health to get through the day should not be part of the job description. In fact, controlling our food and liquid intake during the work day is a...