Serendipities Of A Nomad's Life

At the danger of confirming my new nickname as  “doom and gloom Dennison” with which a friend recently hailed me, I’m posting this summary of a feature by Lester R Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, about global food. Many of us may want to keep our heads stuck in the sand, but even [...]

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On the last day of last year – 2010 – a friend and I were talking about the state of the world and the possibilities for certain events in 2011. When I brought up the subjects of: peak oil and the likelihood of the price of oil increasing dramatically as global production falls, and the [...]

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Journalist Michael Pollan has written three books on food.  His newest (published in paperback in December 2009) is called “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual”. It’s a list of guidelines about food – real food, how to identify it and know what is not food, but what Pollan calls “edible food-like substances”? How conscious are you [...]

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You are what you eat, having become what you ate.  I’ve written two previous posts about food and some of the alarming aspects of what’s on our plates, how it got there and what it’s doing to the land, the people, the animals and society. I am very grateful to my friend Professor Magdalena Krondl, [...]

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You are what you eat, having become what you ate.  Not the exact words of the Buddha two and half thousand years ago.  What he said, in the opening words of the Dhammapada, was, ” You are what you think, having become what you thought.”  Not so very different, I would argue. So what do [...]

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“You are what you think, Having become what you thought,” according to the Buddha.  He might also have added, “You are what you eat, having become what you ate.” When you start to think about it – what a lot of us put in our mouth and swallow is actually pretty shocking.  It’s as if [...]

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