Category Archives: Big Picture

Einstein, Hippocrates, Thoreau…those guys had it right.

Posted on 08/04/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

Some great thinkers have been on the right track for a long time. Humankind lived in harmony with nature for several hundred thousand years until just recently — within the past few hundred years. And, according to the research for … Continue reading →

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Wasteful, harmful and cruel — the Western diet. (Sound Bites)

Posted on 07/26/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

Continuing with my “sound bite” series; this is the second in the series. Bite #1 — Wasteful. On a per calorie basis, our typical Western diet requires twenty times more land, twenty times more energy and more than twenty times more … Continue reading →

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“Certified Organic” is not the most important thing about our food.

Posted on 07/23/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

The most important thing is the food itself! And most of us in the Western world are eating the wrong food. Under the title of “myth-busting” in a recent blog piece (July 18, 2011) by Christie Wilcox in Scientific American … Continue reading →

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