Paleo? You may be asking… Do you live on bacon and kale and CrossFitting* in your Vibram Five Fingers**? Paleo has been blowing up lately and as a result there’s a lot of weird ideas about what it is, and a lot of people getting really dogmatic about it. For me,… Read on
“Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.” —bell hooks “Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness…. Read on
“Creating Learning Communities: Freeing Education to Create a Sustainable Cooperative Society” (Anna Jahns, Pathways to Family Wellness magazine) “[T]he system of education our children are being indoctrinated into today is fundamentally the same as it was 100 years ago, when it was designed to prepare factory workers for an industrial culture oriented toward manufacturing… Read on
The word “natural” is thrown around a lot these days, by itself or within a phrase like “natural health,” “made with natural ingredients,” “natural parenting,” etc. I don’t generally use the word, because although it seems simple, it can be a loaded with implications and assumptions. However, I often struggle… Read on
An open letter to James McWilliams and anyone who has signed or is considering signing the petition asking Whole Foods to “close all its meat counters”: You say you care about the humane treatment of animals. Then why not spend your time going after the factory farms, or Confined Animal… Read on