Category Archives: Energy

High gas prices — the silver lining…

As difficult as it may seem, there is a great deal of good news when it comes to rising gas prices — there is also a great deal of pain. But this post is all about the good news. Happy … Continue reading

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What is the future of food? — Take a look at the past.

During just the past few hundred years in the western world, we have gone from eating mostly whole plants to consuming almost none. Today, in the United States, we derive far less than ten percent of our calories from whole … Continue reading

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My “blinding flash of the obvious” in 2003…

Thanks to John Robbins and Howard Lyman After studying about the health aspects of the optimal diet for humans for about five months in 2003, I read two books over the same weekend — one by each of these two … Continue reading

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