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Kristi Nelson on Why Gratefulness Brings Happiness

Oct 31, 2018 ● By April Thompson

It’s not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy, counsels the head of the Network for Grateful Living.

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Donna Karan on Fashioning Healthful Change

Sep 28, 2018 ● By April Thompson

After her late husband’s struggle with lung cancer, the style icon has turned her attention to organizing a way to put complementary therapies to use in healthcare.

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Chef Rick Moonen on Why Buying Sustainable Seafood Matters

Aug 31, 2018

“The Godfather of Seafood Sustainability” urges us to eat fish in a way that allows wild species to rebound; it can include eating healthily farmed and canned seafood.

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Erling Kagge on Our Deep Need For Silence

Jul 31, 2018 ● By Randy Kambic

The explorer and author speaks on how silence is golden and can be achieved anytime, anywhere by going within.

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Gary Griggs on What We Must Do to Save Our Coasts

Jun 29, 2018 ● By Randy Kambic

About half of the planet’s population lives in coastal areas, and building seawalls to hold back hurricanes and rising ocean waters is only a temporary solution.

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Peter Gros on Preserving Wild Nature

May 31, 2018 ● By Sandra Murphy

The wildlife expert explains why we should appreciate wolves, snakes and bats and what he finds encouraging about an enlightened focus on wildlife protection.

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Kelly Noonan-Gores on How We Shape Our Health

Apr 30, 2018 ● By April Thompson

The actress and filmmaker discusses how to move past our traumas, subconscious programming, and negative visualizations to take charge of our health and enter into full-bodied vitality.

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Paul Hawken Shares a Plan to Reverse Global Warming

Mar 30, 2018 ● By Linda Sechrist

This leading environmental entrepreneur has worked with a range of scientists to draw up a compendium of 100 substantive existing solutions that can turn around rising temperatures.

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Ilona Selke on the Power of Dreaming Big

Feb 28, 2018 ● By April Thompson

By becoming clear on what we want, visualizing it and then seeing it as accomplished, we can manifest miracles.

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Mark Rosenfeld’s Secrets for Successful Love Matches

Jan 31, 2018 ● By Alison James

If we want a real relationship, this experienced dating coach counsels, go slow, self-nurture and use matchmaking websites only as online introductions before going live.

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Harold Koeing on Why Science Finds Faith a Healthy Choice

Dec 29, 2017 ● By April Thompson

People that have a strong faith enjoy better social, physical and mental health and possess a firm foundation to lean on in times of crisis, says the bestselling author.

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Lynne McTaggart on the Power of Group Intention

Nov 30, 2017 ● By April Thompson

When a group, even a small one, including one online, sends a collective intention, seeds grow twice as fast and healings of trauma occur, reports the prominent author.

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Lissa Rankin on Moving from Fear to Freedom

Nov 02, 2017 ● By April Thompson

Fear often arises in us because of stories we unconsciously harbor in our mind—and understanding that unleashes the calming power of our intuition.

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Nature Photographer Robert Llewellyn on Moving From Looking to Seeing

Sep 29, 2017 ● By April Thompson

This skilled photographer and nature lover explains how close observation of a tree reveals its true beauty and life.

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Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo: Joining Science to Spirituality

Aug 31, 2017 ● By Linda Sechrist

The founders of Science & Nonduality discuss why scientists and meditators should collaborate in examining the nature of consciousness.

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Ellen Langer: How Changing Your Thinking Changes Everything

Jul 31, 2017 ● By April Thompson

Her mother’s medically inexplicable recovery from breast cancer propelled the Harvard psychologist into research that is changing the way more people think about the potential of mind power.

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Maria Rodale Helps Organic Farmers Succeed

Jun 30, 2017 ● By Randy Kambic

To spur consumer demand and help farmers, the Rodale Institute performs top-quality research on the benefits of eating organic foods and optimal farming methods.

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Molly Hagan on Eco-Living: Start Small and Stay Committed

May 31, 2017 ● By April Thompson

The actress has been award of the need for environmental integrity for 30 years, and weighs every choice from gardening to flooring with sustainability in mind.

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Taggart Siegel Seeks to Seed an Agricultural Revolution

Apr 28, 2017 ● By April Thompson

His latest documentary film explores the global drive to rescue traditional seed varieties threatened with extinction by agribusiness practices, in order to ensure humanity’s survival.

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Tony Juniper on How Thriving Ecosystems Sustain Prosperity

Mar 31, 2017 ● By Randy Kambic

The environmental advocate and author explains why only policies that acknowledge our need for nature enable us to thrive economically, physically and emotionally.

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Dr. Joseph Mercola on Simple Steps to Well-Being

Feb 28, 2017 ● By Judith Fertig

Monitoring seven markers of health, exchanging our usual beverages for water and getting up from our desk every 15 minutes are first steps to robust health.

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Transforming the Way Women Relate to Men: An Interview with Alison Armstrong

Jan 31, 2017 ● By April Thompson

Approaching our differences with openness and curiosity rather than assumptions opens up true communication.

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Julia Schopick on Effective, Affordable Medicine

Dec 28, 2016 ● By Randy Kambic

Such seemingly intractable conditions as Parkinson’s, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis can respond to surprisingly low-cost treatments.

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Krista Tippett on Our Evolving Spirituality: Why it Evokes Hope

Nov 30, 2016 ● By Randy Kambic

The National Public Radio host of On Being discovers deep inspiration shared by the spiritual leaders, philosophers, physicists, biologists and neuroscientists she interviews.

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Kelly Brogan on the Truth About Depression: Why Meds Don’t Work and What Does

Oct 31, 2016 ● By Kathleen Barnes

The psychiatrist and author uses food, not pharmaceuticals, to successfully turn around depression.

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Edward Humes on the High Cost of Transportation: Small Consumer Choices Have Big Impacts

Sep 30, 2016 ● By Randy Kambic

When we click “buy it now” to purchase, say, a coffee pot, we support a process that has 165,000 miles of trains, planes, boats and truck travel attached to it.

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Inside the Chant with Krishna Das: Kirtan Music Transports Listeners to a Deeper Place

Aug 31, 2016 ● By Robin Fillmore

His soothing, rhythmic chants open up soul spaces and connections by which we can feel touched by the Divine.

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Barnet Bain on How Creativity Can Save the World: Fresh Thinking Challenges Rigid Mindsets

Jul 29, 2016 ● By Linda Sechrist

If we lock ourselves into a hand-me-down worldview, we lose access to our own deep stores of creativity and wisdom.

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Liza Huber on Healthy Meals and Happy Kids: Start with Homemade, Organic Baby Food

Jun 30, 2016 ● By Gerry Strauss

The Passions star is passionately devoted to feeding babies organic fruits and veggies, and helping parents prepare them by hand for an extra boost of health and love.

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Gay Hendricks on Nurturing Love in Midlife: Why Growing Up Can Mean Loving Better

May 31, 2016 ● By S. Alison Chabonais

Making love still sparkle later in life means moving out of relationship ruts and opening up to new ways of communing and being together.

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Christie Brinkley Shares Her Secrets to Lasting Beauty: Why She Still Looks Terrific After 40 Years as a Model

Apr 29, 2016 ● By Gerry Strauss

She hasn’t eaten meat since age 13, keeps her attitude upbeat and insists on quality beauty products.

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Marie Kondo on the Joy of Tidying Up: Simplicity Invites Happiness into Our Lives

Mar 31, 2016 ● By April Thompson

By turning a conventional to-do on its head, Marie Kondo has taught millions worldwide how to gain joy by permanently de-cluttering their homes.

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Land Manager Allan Savory on Holistic Pasturing: How Cows Can Help Reverse Climate Change

Feb 29, 2016 ● By Linda Sechrist

Large herds of roving cattle can restore dried-up grasslands, converting them into fertile CO2-sinks that both feed us and reduce greenhouse gasses.

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Alyssa Milano’s Anti-Aging Secrets: Her Natural Lifestyle Choices Keep Her Young

Jan 29, 2016 ● By Gerry Strauss

The actress who has grown up before our eyes is committed to consistent eco-friendly choices that include breastfeeding and playing outdoors with her children.

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Bruce Lipton on the Epigenetics Revolution: Our Beliefs Reprogram Our Genetic Destiny

Dec 29, 2015 ● By Linda Sechrist

By regulating our environment and our response to it, we can ensure that inherited genes don’t have the last word.

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Sharon Salzberg on Mindfulness: Simple Ways to Be in the Present Moment

Nov 30, 2015 ● By April Thompson

We can move toward mindfulness with such everyday practices as pausing before pushing ‘send’ on an email or letting the phone ring three times.

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Kristen Bell on Planet-Friendly Living: Eco-Activist Actress Takes Steps that Make a Difference

Oct 30, 2015 ● By Gerry Strauss

A vegetarian since age 11, she believes passionately that we must care for each other and the Earth.

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EPA: A Muzzled Watchdog: E.G. Vallianatos Seeks to Put Bite Back into the Agency

Sep 30, 2015 ● By Randy Kambic

Political corruption has resulted in America’s most critical environmental enforcement unit turning into the “polluter’s protection agency.”

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Alexandra Paul on Vegan Activism: Her Kind Lifestyle Honors All Living Things

Aug 31, 2015 ● By Gerry Strauss

The Baywatch star’s healthy choices and inspired activism are driven by her desire to be kind to herself and all living beings.

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Joe Dispenza on The Power of Thought Alone to Heal

Jul 31, 2015 ● By Kathleen Barnes

Fresh thinking allows us to overcome subconscious beliefs that hamper our healing.

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Jeffrey Smith Warns Against GMOs

Jun 30, 2015 ● By Linda Sechrist

The leader of the anti-GMO movement explains how health-conscious consumers are causing Big Food to reconsider its GMO push.

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The Gut-Mind Connection: David Perlmutter on How Stomach Microflora Affect Brain Health

May 29, 2015 ● By Linda Sechrist

Our stomach bacteria—derived from the foods we eat—turn out to be key in everything from moods to hunger levels to diseases such as diabetes and autism.

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