Part of the big picture of a Utopian future must include efficient use of resources. Efficient use of resources often is depicted as limiting our use of fossil fuels and preserving our forests. These are both important elements of efficiency, but they aren’t the whole picture. Food
Read more →There’s a struggle going on between Big Agriculture and small, family owned farms. It doesn’t get much coverage on the news, but the family farm as we grew up to know it is disappearing. And with it, not only is a way of life being left behind,
Read more →If you’re at all like I am, I grew up having friends and family in the farming community. I got to hang out with cows in the pasture, was chased by geese while trying to cross the yard, drove tractors and simply enjoyed the freshest produce possible.
Read more →The Scales of Justice are a finicky lot. Sometimes they seem to be working in smooth, balanced fashion. Other times, however, they seem to be woefully off-kilter. Of course, this article is concerned with the latter. I’m noticing an ever worrying increase in the Scales leaning squarely
Read more →As reported at mercola.com and USA Today, Kashi has become the poster child of how lax labeling laws can leave consumers believing they’re buying one thing when, in fact, they’re getting something else entirely. Case in point: In Kashi’s “natural” cereals, the soy used is GMO. For
Read more →People are smart. We come from a long line of smart organisms. In fact, if we look at the trillions of organisms living on and in us in our own microbiome, you could look at each of us as being a smart superorganism. Life on Earth has
Read more →If you’re living in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s likely that you’re enduring winter and not really enjoying it. Moreover, if you’re like a lot of people, you’ve either been sick, are sick or will become sick at some point down the road. Many people resign themselves to
Read more →Recently, a lot has been written about the paleolithic diet and how our bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to prefer raw, whole foods. Longtime readers of Living Intentionally will no doubt recognize that I’m a strong proponent of such a diet. Agriculture as
Read more →I’ve been reading a lot of stuff lately that have concerned me with regard to the apparent chipping away of our rights. A lot of the trust we have put in authority to take care of us has, instead, been usurped for selfish interests. Many people think
Read more →One of the aspects of modern life that I find both fascinating and frustrating is the idea of novel dangers versus old, boring ones. With the tragedy of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami here in Japan giving us the ol’ 1-2 punch and the subsequent
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