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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Milk-Superfood or Hyper-Allergen?
From Adam Heifer In my time as a health professional I don’t think there is any other food i’ve come across that has more controversy and conjures up such a polarity of opinions as Milk. Although an ongoing source of confusion for years, a …
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
The Thread Underneath The Pearls: Final Reflection on Tour Bus
by Chris Fici, Monk and Teacher at the Bhakti Center From the Faith House Manhattan blogOne of my favorite verses in the Bhagavad-Gita is when Krishna tells his warrior friend Arjuna of how He is the connecting thread behind all reality.O conquero…
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Keeping The Water Flowing In Rural Villages
From Tina Rosenberg at the Opinionator from the New York Times Keeping projects in business for the long term has been a constant theme of the Fixes column, and if sustainability has a poster child, it would be a water pump. Travel anywhere…
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
ISCOWP (International Society For Cow Protection) Update December 2011
Click here to check out the latest update from our friends at the International Society For Cow Protection (ISCOWP)
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study The Risks
Click here to read the full article from Justin Gillis at the New York Times FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A bubble rose through a hole in the surface of a frozen lake. It popped, followed by another, and another, as if a pot were somehow boiling in the icy…
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Minstry of Rural Devel…
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
With Students’ Help, Schools Going Green
By SOPHIA HOLLANDER at the Wall Street Journal When Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in 2008 that he wanted city buildings to lower their energy consumption by 30% within a decade, one area seemed ripe for reductions: the city’s 1,700 scho…
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011
A Deeper Understanding of Ahimsa
My new article from BeliefnetTwice a week, as part of our outreach of Hindu culture from our monastery in the East Village, myself and a few other monks teach classes on the art of vegetarian cuisine at Columbia University and New York University.&n…
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Beware These Organic Brands
By Dr. Mercola from Mercola.comMark Kastel, co-founder of the Cornucopia Institute, has a long history as a marketing- and political consultant, and as a lobbyist (working for family farmers). While he didn’t grow up on a farm, he ended up taking a sum…
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Why Suffering And Spirituality Go Hand-In-Hand
The latest from my good friend and fellow monk Gadadhar Pandit Dasa at the Huffington Post It’s quite natural for those of faith to turn towards God during difficult times. Even if one has a regular spiritual practice, their practice can increase…
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
The Strange Art of Relationships
Five years ago I began my life as a monk at a Hindu/Vedic temple in the hills of West Virginia. It was the time of my life in which I burst out of the bubble of my previous life, as a middle-class, suburban young man/student from Michigan, into a whol…
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Help Save Krishna Valley Eco-Village in Hungary
Also from our friend Madhava Ghosh at View From a New Vrindaban Ridge From Krishna Valley in Hungary:Dear Members (Gosh’s note: and Well Wishers)Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.Please find below the explanation and…
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
ISCOWP (International Society For Cow Protection) Update Nov 2011
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
The Bhakti Way Of Investing In The Ecology of The Heart
From Radhanath Swami at the Huffington Post A crippled economy and a polluted environment plague our social body. Both largely stem from the same core disease — pollution of hearts. Blinded by distractions one ca…
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The Dark Side of the Green City
From Andrew Ross at the New York Times THE struggle to slow global warming will be won or lost in cities, which emit 80 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. So “greening” the city is all the rage now. But if policy makers end up focusing only…