| Pimm and Clinton Jenkins, conservation, ecology, and extinction investigators from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, wrote that the world's three remaining tropical forests and twenty-five "hot spots" harbor "most of the world's species of plants and animals."44 Indeed, more than half the animal species in the world live in rain forests.45 Only a single square mile of Amazon rain forest is home to up to fifteen hundred species of butterfly. |
| One represents the best in environment and ecology. The other represents the worst. "I found these experiences instructive, because I had previously assumed that oil industry impacts were overwhelmingly harmful."15
His experience occurred in divided New Guinea. A portion of the island is ruled by Indonesia, and a portion as an independent democracy. Salawati Island is off the coast of Indonesian New Guinea. He was asked to conduct a bird survey of islands of the region. Much of the island was leased for oil exploration by Pertamina, the national oil company of Indonesia. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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David Steinman
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 When the Nature Conservancy and New York State began working with Domtar Industries to obtain conservation easements and preserve some of the land as deep ecology, people naturally had strong emotions and concerns," he said. "They really worried over whether they would lose use of their lands. There are strong traditions in this area that are reflected, for example, in the many hunt clubs that dot the landscape. |
| We sat by a creek and ate sandwiches amidst the scratching of spruce needles, and under a flurry of viburnum and other berry shrubs, good food for the rare Spruce Grouse and its other deep ecology friends like the olive-sided flycatcher, black-backed woodpecker, rusty blackbird, boreal chickadee, gray jay, palm warbler, and Lincoln's sparrow.5 Only about 175 were estimated to live statewide, and they needed deep forest, and the Adirondacks, in the whole United States, were one of the few regions where the birds continued to thrive. The birds needed boreal-type forests with only small openings. |
| I thought of the consequences of such a deep ecology, of having wolves in the Adirondacks, but also wondered if New Yorkers would go for that, having wolves in their wild lands. We flew over Mount Marcy, the highest peak in New York State. These were amazing mountains and absolutely gorgeous. They were certainly not the biggest, but they had something special. When we landed, I said good luck to Blinn. He told me that I should bring my family someday and he would take us all flying, and it seemed like a grand idea.
Bryant and I got back in the truck. |
Pam Montgomery
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 To maintain a balanced spiritual ecology we must view the world as one that we can partner with co-creatively. The key to successful co-creative partnering is effective communication; a skill we all can develop. Communication comes in many forms and can be as simple as an experience that opens a particular door of perception, thus inviting connection. While driving home one day, I rounded the corner and there laid out before me in all its majesty was Marble Mountain, at whose base I live. |
Dan Buettner
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 Simple, nonprocessed foods, often found in rural societies are associated with positive ecology of friendly bacteria in our intestines. These friendly bacteria include immunomodulating and fiber-fermenting lactic acid bacteria," Greg said.
"Stressors of this healthy ecological system," he continued, "such as surgery, certain medications, and consumption of meats and processed foods disrupt a natural balance and shift from friendly to unfriendly bacteria. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 When Rachel Carson's groundbreaking Silent Spring was published in 1962, which cataloged the environmental impacts of the indiscriminate spraying of DDT in the United States and questioned the logic of releasing large amounts of chemicals into the environment without fully understanding their effects on ecology or human health, people began to wonder. Carson suggested that DDT and other pesticides may cause cancer and that their agricultural use was a threat to wildlife. |
Dan Buettner
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| Fermented soy foods contribute to a healthy intestinal ecology and offer even better nutritional benefits.
Maintain a moai.
The Okinawan tradition of forming a moai provides secure social networks. These safety nets lend financial and emotional support in times of need and give all of their members the stress-shedding security of knowing that there is always someone there for them.
Enjoy the sunshine.
Vitamin D, produced by the body when it's exposed on a regular basis to sunlight, promotes stronger bones and healthier bodies. |
Dawson Church
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 And the results of humanity becoming a conscious co-creator in the great ecology of being are beyond our wildest dreams.
Ten Principles of Epigenetic Me J icme
The winds ofgrace are always blowing but you have to raise the sail.
—Ramakrishna
Today, as I write these words, I'm sitting on a bench in a park on one of Northern California's sunny winter days. My laptop and a notepad sit on my lap. I watch as my youngest son, Alexander, plays in the sand with his bucket, spade, trains, and cars. "I'm digging for buried treasure!" he exclaims excitedly, as his toy rake hits a buried object. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 A plant-source diet helps us reconnect with our fundamental nature and helps heal the ecology of the planet. Because it does not create a hoarding of resources, it frees up the resources to feed everyone on the planet seven times over. In order to do this, we need the means, motivation, and support necessary to reclaim our most basic right of health and well-being.
Juice Feasting
To heal we need to move back through the Seven Stages of Disease and push the reset button on our physiology. |
| The healing of diabetes at the pandemic level requires the healing of the ecology of the planet and the consciousness of the people. To heal oneself requires the ability to love oneself enough to have the intention to reconnect with the Culture of Life which is our birthright. In that way we perform an Act of Love for oneself as an individual person, and as part of the living planet. This results in the healing of the planet and all species. The healing of diabetes in this context is an Act of Love, Compassion, and Consciousness. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| In addition, a good probiotic supplement will also assist with keeping the intestinal ecology in the proper balance. Friendly intestinal bacteria (also known as flora or probiotics, which literally means "for life"), can help your body destroy bad bacteria and keep a fine balance in your digestive tract that will further help you absorb the nutrients you need so your natural detoxification systems continue to run smoothly. Again, I'll be giving you more direction about probiotics in Chapter 6. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 At age twenty-seven, he had become the youngest professor at the University of Oslo and there coined the term "deep ecology" to express the idea that human beings are intimately and spiritually connected to the earth. Though he was affected by dementia, Arne was still a fount of wisdom when we met. As we sat in a restaurant overlooking Oslo, he emphasized a truism that he lived by: "Think like a mountain."
At first this notion perplexed me, but as I thought about it, the metaphor made sense and I began to understand what Arne had meant about the wisdom of mountains. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Currently there is much speculation about the possibilities of matching the right lectins to the right regions and to pharmaceutically "engineer" the digestive tract for improved physiological performance and bacterial ecology.47"50
These are exciting developments, but they are not an argument for eating soy foods. Soy lectins and other food lectins used in this medicine of the future will be used precisely and pharmaceutically. The same benefits are highly unlikely to come from simply eating the foods. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Another preliminary study found the Vega test identified the same neutralization doses as clinical ecology testing (see above) in 66% of tests.174 More research is needed to better evaluate these testing techniques.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that occurs in the later years of life. People with Alzheimer's develop progressive loss of memory and gradually lose the ability to function and to take care of themselves. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Legumes are industrious and efficient plants, delivering benefits to both health and ecology: they enrich the soil in which they grow, producing highly nutritious substances over a relatively short period of time.
Soybeans were probably not included in human diet until after the Zhou dynasty discovery of fermentation techniques. The first foods made from soybeans were in fact products of fermentation, such as miso and soy sauce; they were followed by the discovery of tofu preparation (see inset). |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Price-Pottenger: The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization, is a clearinghouse of information on healthful lifestyles, ecology, sound nutrition, alternative medicine, humane farming, and organic gardening: www.price-pottenger.org
Ravnskov and THINCS: These are the sites of iconoclast researcher Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Cholesterol Myths (see "Recommended Reading," page 321). His sites are dedicated to disproving the idea that too much animal fat and high cholesterol are dangerous to your heart and vessels. |
Carlo Petrini
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 I am putting agriculture and ecology together in a single discipline, because I think they are inseparable: anyone who tills the land and raises livestock works with nature and must not exploit and kill it. |
Sue Palmer
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 With such a remarkable network of wiring and chemicals in our skulls, it's highly unlikely that a single environmental influence could cause much damage - just as in the vast tracts of the Amazon jungle, the occasional drought, heatwave or man with a chainsaw won't upset the complex ecology. But if a great many things go awry at once, if the build-up becomes so great it reaches tipping point, even an Amazonian rainforest can be endangered. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 So why does the corporate world push a technology that breeds ill health, is a danger to the world ecology, does not feed the worlds poor and hungry, and is actually less economically productive per acre? Robert T. Frailey when he was Co-President of Monsanto's agricultural sector, put it bluntly: "It's really a consolidation of the entire food chain."1 GE foods are created not because of health or productivity factors, but because they are patentable and give international corporations an opportunity to try to control the food chain and the world population that depends on it for sustenance. |
Carlo Petrini
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| Everyone consumes in the world; those who produce know nothing of gastronomy; those who consume know nothing of agriculture; those who are concerned with ecology do not connect it with food; wealth is unevenly distributed and knowledge disappears.
In this scenario, power lies with the distributors, with the intermediaries, with the people who provide the farmer-cum-factory worker with his materials (seeds and so on), and the people who create the brand name of the final product, which is untraceable and unrecognizable except through advertising. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 Altered intestinal ecology and bacterial overgrowth are conducive to the passage, or translocation, of bacteria and yeast into your general circulation. Antibiotics are a cause of this translocation, which is associated with leaky gut syndrome.
Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
NSAIDs such as ibuprofen, aspirin and so on all cause a leakiness of the intestinal lining. There are at least three mechanisms by which this occurs:
1. they create a deficiency of N-Acetyl-Glucosamine (NAG)
2. they interrupt the secretion of protective substances called prostaglandins
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Carlo Petrini
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| A gastronomy which is well-informed about agriculture and ecology and intercommunicates with them is a science that knows its own limitations, and will be able to find the natural resources to guarantee development in the most threatened areas of the planet without harming the environment. At the same time, it will be able to find a means of correcting the current implosion of the agroindustrial system.
2.4 On anthropology and sociology, or On identity and exchange Food, being a primary cultural element, lends itself very well to the study of cultures and identities. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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| Clinical ecology (provocation-neutralization; end-point titration) This branch of medicine is considered very controversial. Testing is done using intra-dermal (under the skin) injections of minute dilutions of foods, inhalants or (in some cases) chemicals. Based on reactions, additional dilutions are used. This test not only determines whether an allergy exists but also operates on the theory that one dilution can trigger a reaction while another can neutralize a reaction. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Treatment is considered successful if it clears up the clue cells and amine fishy odor and restores the vaginal flora to healthy levels of lactobacilli. Reexamination following treatment is fundamental to assure that the pH has decreased to less than 4.5. If it has not, then you are at risk for developing a recurrence. If pH remains greater than 4.5 following treatment, more aggressive use of lactobacillus and/or vaginal boric acid suppositories should be utilized. The first follow-up should occur after the designated treatment time of usually 7 to 14 days, then again in one month. |
Carlo Petrini
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| On agriculture and ecology, or On the techniques for producing sustainable food During the last fifty years, agriculture has become increasingly industrialized. The introduction of elements external to the natural system in which agriculture is practiced, such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers, has rapidly compromised the salubri-ousness of food and of the environment. The survey, at the beginning of this book, of the damage that man has done to the earth showed that it is mainly attributable to modern systems of food production. |
| After the initial response, perhaps of slight amusement, there was a vigorous discussion on the subject, notable for a speech by Vandana Shiva, who spoke about the importance of gastronomy for the defense of traditional kinds of vegetables (it was on this occasion that I struck up a close friendship and collaboration with Shiva, who is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and ecology in India and an important activist for biodiversity). |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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| How Healthy Is My Intestinal ecology?
The intestinal lining is coated with and contains over 400 different species of micro-organisms, or intestinal flora - both healthful and unhealthful bacteria numbering in the billions. One estimate is that the bacteria in your colon weigh 3 lb, and that the number of individual bacteria outnumbers the number of human cells in your body.
Intestinal bacteria carry out so many functions in the body that they can almost be considered an organ in their own right. We truly have a symbiotic relationship with our intestinal microflora. |
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