The “Harmony Project”—Much more than a book

Thank you John Robbins, for showing me the way during my early days of learning about the need for harmony on our precious planet.

Before publishing this anniversary blog today, I went back and counted the number of featured “Comments.” Amazingly, it was 52—one for every week of this young blog’s existence.

Many thanks to all of you that have lent their support to our “Harmony Project!”

My learning on this crucial topic began in 2002, and the “Harmony Project” was launched in 2006. Why “harmony?” Since I began reading about all of the global issues that are driven by our rich Western diet, my favorite word has been harmony.

But before reading a few John Robbins’ books in 2003, I had never realized the importance of living in harmony with our planet—where everything is connected. Why hpjmh? I wanted it to be as short as possible and I wanted it to mean something; hence,

Harmony Project—J. Morris Hicks

Until 2003, I had never realized that we humans are the only species (out of millions) in the history of the world that has drifted away from living in harmony with Nature. Where everything in our universe is connected, we’re the only piece that doesn’t quite fit with the rest.

4Leaf Violet, my youngest granddaughter. This photo was sent to me by her mother, Diana, (from the grocery store) after reading yesterday's blog about parenting.

When it finally dawned on me about how “everything is connected,” I suddenly had my blinding flash of the obvious: “Oh my God, we’re eating the wrong food.”  Then a few years later in 2006, I saw the Al Gore movie (An Inconvenient Truth) about global warming and was disgusted that he didn’t even mention the #1 cause—the raising of livestock (according to the U. N. Report that same year).

Shortly after seeing that movie, I decided to start assembling what I had learned on a website that I would build and manage. I chose the url HarmonyEarth.net for that website—two words that convey the continuous need for everything to be in harmony on our planet.

So, in effect, that Harmony Earth website was the first chapter of my Harmony Project, whose mission is stated thusly:

 An ongoing effort to promote health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

The next few chapters of the Harmony Project. In early  February of 2011, I launched this blog. From 20 visitors a day in the early days, we’re now averaging close to 1,000 and are hearing from people all over the world. Just yesterday I got a note from James in Oslo, Norway.

A few months later, we introduced our trademarked 4Leaf Program with the objective of making it simple for people to take charge of their health. You see, the Harmony Project essentially begins with human health—because our desire for health is what drives us to consume a diet that just happens to be in harmony with Nature.

For the past year, my tagline on this blog has been: Promoting health, hope and harmony on Planet Earth, a phrase that was used in the last paragraph of our book, Healthy Eating, Healthy World. And thanks to my relationship with Dr. Campbell, the publisher of The China Study, BenBella Books,  also published our book on October 4, 2011.

Promoting health, hope and harmony is the overall theme of our book.

What next? I have concluded that the single biggest step that humankind can take in bringing us back into harmony with the rest of the planet—is to begin an aggressive move in the direction of a whole foods, plant-based diet. It will save water, reduce water pollution, free-up land, restore biodiversity and reduce global warming—while at the same time, reducing our consumption of fossil fuels by up to 30 percent. And our reward for taking this step is vibrant health for ourselves.

Latest Chapter of the Harmony Project. But before we can enlist the support of the best and the brightest to get serious about helping us move toward that plant-based diet, we must first dispel the “protein myth” that is believed by almost everyone. The latest chapter of the Harmony Project is a campaign to dispel that myth.

Since some 95% of the people in the Western world mistakenly believe that we “need” to eat animal protein to be healthy, the obvious plant-based solution to so many of the world’s most pressing problems never even make it to the table for consideration. So, all we need to do is dispel that “protein myth” which frees up those creative minds—releasing them to create plant-based solutions beyond our wildest dreams.

Within the next two weeks, I expect to announce the next chapter of the Harmony Project. Stay tuned. As for harmonyearth.net, she was retired in mid-2011; but the url continues to send visitors to hpjmh.com. In closing…

One other bit of trivia: The side street closest to my Main Street home in the Borough of Stonington is named Harmony.

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J. Morris Hicks, working daily to promote health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

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—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com

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