This article offers an impartial introduction to the otherwise hotly-contested subject of childhood vaccinations. And it shows how vaccines fit into the whole problem of the toxic assault on our children.

Donna Curless’s three children were born and spent their early years in Brick Township, a mid-size, middle income New Jersey city whose rate of children with autism seemed so off the charts that it became the quoted statistic for quite a few years. Looking for possible causes, government and independent investigators found the ...

Right now, running twice an hour in Times Square, there's a 540 sq. ft. animation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt giving little kids free ice cream and secretly gathering their personal information. It's promoting a one minute, avatar-style animated short titled Don't Be Evil? that can be watched at InsideGoogle.com.

Do you want Google or any other online company looking over your shoulder and tracking your every move just so it can increase its profits? Consumers have a right to privacy. They should control ...

The following is an excerpt from When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein (Chelsea Green, 2008). This comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills — from food and water to first-aid and crisis management skills — will prepare you to live in the ...

I have a hunch that readers thought I was joking when I wrote recently about growing tree seedlings in roof gutters. The picture above proves that it works. I thought by now (late summer) the seedlings would have died for lack of water, but we’ve had regular rain so now I can transplant some of those seedlings this fall if not next spring. I can just lift the plants out of the gutter and plop them, ...

We frequently hear that the farming population of the United States is both dwindling and aging, as big agribusiness applies outlandish economies of scale to the tired soil. But at the same time there is a burgeoning population of young people getting back to the land in ways both practical and passionate. It's happening in rural areas across the country, where farms have always been; and in cities as well, where access to healthy food is a growing concern. The local food movement has captured the imagination of many, and they're finding ways to connect ...

Poisoned for Profit – “Background” Levels of Chemicals and Their Effect on Our Kids

“The toxification of the environment – the introduction of poisons into our habitat by industrial and commercial activity – has been a fact of modern life for decades.  But this plague of pollution is so insidious, like the slowly heating pot of water that boils the unsuspecting frog that its true dimensions have crept up on us largely unheeded. So has its impact on the health of our children.”

This startling paragraph opens ...

From Publisher's Weekly:

Although last fall was known for its "embarrassment of riches," this fall's title selection is plenty strong as well.

"I feel great about the fall—the momentum is already here. I see tons of stuff about the end of the book is nigh, but I keep selling books," says Sheryl Cotleur, buying director of Book Passage in Corte Madera, Calif., which has sold over a thousand copies of David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Zoet this summer. "Besides," says Mark Mouser, manager of general books ...

When Anthem Blue Cross announced its controversial premium increases in California recently, the insurer claimed, "a carrier must be able to receive actuarially sound rates."

So it is remarkable that "progressive" San Francisco State Senator Mark Leno, a single payer health care advocate, recently introduced eleventh hour legislation codifying Anthem Blue Cross's "actuarially sound" defense of premium increases in law.

Advocates like me, who have battled the insurance companies for decades, know "actuarially sound" is code for whatever an insurance actuary says is "actuarially ...