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Is Raw Milk Really Healthier?

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:31 +0000

The following is an excerpt from The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights by David E. Gumpert. Once I entered the world of raw milk, one of the first and most frequent claims I heard was that consumers of the stuff usually didn’t suffer from lactose intolerance. I had never been [...]

Take a Trip Down Memory Lane…And Get On A Train

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:58:03 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service by James McCommons. California Zephyr: here come your game boys and microwaves The odyssey began in early 2007 when I got a magazine-writing assignment that would take me from my home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Seattle, Washington. [...]

WATCH: Senator Sanders Tackles Too-Big-to-Fail: “Break ‘em Up”

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:57:37 +0000

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is introducing a bill in the Senate that would break the monopoly of the “too big to fail” financial institutions. If they’re too big to fail, says Sanders, they’re too big to exist. (h/t Sam Stein, The Huffington Post) Here’s amazing irony. Guess what. Three out of the four largest financial institutions in [...]

Diane Wilson Joins International Hunger Strike for Climate Justice

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:06:47 +0000

Texas Gulf Coast fisherwoman and environmental activist Diane Wilson wants to leave the world a better place for future generations. Climate change shouldn’t be a political issue. We shouldn’t risk destroying our environment because a few short-sighted individuals can’t be bothered to transition away from fossil fuels. Diane Wilson knows we can do better, and she’s [...]

WATCH: Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:06:05 +0000

Michael Ratner sums up the news that 22 CIA agents were convicted by an Italian court yesterday for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in Italy and his “rendition” to Egypt to be tortured (from the Community Blogs): You may recall the case. The CIA was accused of [...]

The Evolution of Lynn Margulis

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:04:47 +0000

How has Lynn Margulis (Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love, Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature) for decades summoned the confidence to plow ahead with her groundbreaking evolutionary theories and scientific papers on symbiogenesis and endosymbiosis in the face of establishment opposition, scorn, and even ridicule? Easy. It’s because… well… she just [...]

WATCH: The Blue Vinyl Trailer

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:04:17 +0000

UPDATE: It was just pointed out to me by one of our FaceBook fans that Blue Vinyl isn’t exactly new. A quick IMDB search confirms it’s from 2002. To which I say, what the hell! It’s new to me! PS: Keep on keeping us honest, FaceBook fans. Community involvement is our bread and butter. ***** I just watched [...]

Joel Salatin: I Drink Black Market Raw Milk

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:01:14 +0000

Could the Founding Fathers have envisioned a day when it was illegal for a man to milk his own cows and sell the milk to his neighbors? It probably never even crossed their minds. Author Joel Salatin, the “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer” who appeared in the documentary Food, Inc. and was profiled in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, [...]

Zen and the Art of Raising Chickens

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:01:58 +0000

Who would have thought the simple act of raising chickens could raise your consciousness, expand your sense of self, and strengthen your connection to the Earth? I sure didn’t… until I read this article by Chelsea Green’s own Makenna Goodman, blogger, community-builder, and outlaw farmer. From The Huffington Post: I’ve been raising laying hens for about a [...]

Reflections on Death, #1: Recycling of the Dead (An Excerpt from Death & Sex)

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:27 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Death & Sex by Tyler Volk and Dorion Sagan. It has been adapted for the Web. From chapter 4: Recycling of the Dead When carbon ends its “lifetime” in the biosphere, it doesn’t stop being carbon. It merely passes into a deeper zone. One is reminded here of ancient myths that [...]