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My relentless drum-beat continues.
Beginning today with the fact that our solar system is just one of 100 billion. And scientists estimate that many of them could possibly support life. So, does that mean that, like in the movie Avatar,...
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My letter to a U. S. Senator. Subject: Food Choices
Searching for powerful leadership to address the all-important FOOD issue. This past weekend, I saw a news item about a friend and former business colleague that I have known for over forty years. I...
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Bill Gates is way off base on MEAT!
As he casually hastens the end of our civilization Toward the end of his 4-21-15 blogpost, Bill Gates sums up the meat situation as follows: How can we make enough meat without destroying the...
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Do your children know what we’re doing to our oceans?
Featuring a new 12-minute video from Philip Wollen Not familiar with him? A former top Australian business executive, he now describes himself as a humanitarian philanthropist–dedicating the rest of...
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Is the media waking up to the POWER of our food choices?
Well, maybe a few of them are–here are three encouraging stories. 1. Let’s lead off with Nicholas Kristof’s column in the New York Times a few days ago–“Our Water-Guzzling Food factory.” He starts out...
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Physician Heal Thyself, Then Others
That’s the title of the first chapter in our new book. That first chapter was written by my co-author, Dr. Kerry Graff, a family physician who discovered after two decades of practicing medicine that...
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Attention all scholars who like what the pope is saying
“Why Pope Francis Wants You to Eat Veggies” At least that was the conclusion of Dr. Nivien Saleh, a friend I met because of our mutual passion for plant-based eating for humans. Our new book went on...
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“Birthday and Soul-Searching Season” in the Hicks family
Featuring a brand new grandson, Lucas Jason Hicks (8-26-15) August and September have become what I call “birthday season” for the Hicks family and, for me, it triggers thoughts about how long the...
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“E.D. by Ellen”
By Kerry Graff, MD — Chief Medical Officer of 4Leaf Global Ellen Degeneres is up to her ears in cow dung over her new men’s fashion line that includes leather. Called E.D. by Ellen, this line partners...
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Leonardo DiCaprio promotes “Cowspiracy” on NETFLIX
Finally, we might be able to get some real traction in spreading the word Yesterday, I heard that Cowspiracy was now available on NETFLIX. I got the news from a 9-24-15 article on the New...
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Growing potatoes on Mars with Matt Damon
And other lessons for humankind from “The Martian” Spoiler alert. If you don’t like to read anything about movies before you see them, you should stop reading for now. I do recommend this movie highly....
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Do you know the significance of 350 parts per million?
It is the maximum safe level of CO2 in our atmosphere. It’s also a level that we will probably never see again. Read on… From the 350.org website. The number 350 means climate safety: to preserve a...
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Will grassroots activism save our ecosystem?
It’s possible. But it would take a few hundred years…which we don’t have. Here’s the way I see things. As an industrial engineer, corporate executive, management consultant, and executive recruiter, I...
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The tragic passing of a great environmental activist
The founder of Esprit and The North Face, Doug Tompkins As a veteran of the fashion world, I have known about Doug Tompkins for many decades, although I never met him. And, I never will, because sadly...
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Paris climate deal is a fraud. I agree with James Hansen.
Even the most optimistic experts and analysts are not impressed. In November of 2013, I concluded that we probably had about 1,000 days left to start making a serious dent in slowing our speed as we...
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Tackling the most urgent problem in the world in 2016
And how you can help This morning, I received a picture of my oldest grandson, Collin Jason Hicks (14), shown here on a downhill ski run at Burke Mountain (Vermont) last weekend. As is the case with...
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Letter to VP Joe Biden. Your war on cancer can be won…
But ONLY if you keep an open mind–ever wary of the cancer bureaucracy. President Obama announced last week in his final State of the Union address that VP Joe Biden would be launching a “moonshot”...
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My second letter to VP Joe Biden in seven days…
And I am going to keep writing him until I get an answer. Dear Mr. Biden, I am writing to you about your cancer project. In early 2005, some alarming scientific findings linking the consumption of...
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My 3rd letter to VP Joe Biden in ten days
This one will be delivered by the USPS Earlier this week, a friend recommended that I also send my White House letters the old-fashioned way–so I am doing that now. My third letter (below) combines the...
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Jumbo “poster-size” Cancer Letter to VP Joe Biden
Mounted on an 18″ by 24″ foam poster board Yesterday, a good friend in Baltimore recommended that I send my next “cancer letter” to Vice President Biden in a format that could not possibly fall through...
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