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A diet that is local, unfrozen and unprocessed, seasonal, organic or near-organic, has no packaging and is based on mostly grain and vegetables, including little or no beef or dairy

Production has its impact by water use, land use, energy use, and herbicide and pesticide use:

Eat organic or close to it—to cut down on the chemicals.

The culture tells us we need so many things, so many comforts, so many services--just to get by. But do we? We are stripping down our life, seeing what we really miss, and at the end we'll very deliberately put it back together. Michelle calls it a life redesign.

Study of the past can be informative for scientists, but it is not explanatory of the present nor is it predictive of the future.

The infamous "Hockey Stick" graph was featured prominently in the IPCC TAR Summary for Policymakers.

Two Canadians, an economist and a petroleum geologist, took it upon themselves to verify this proxy reconstruction by getting the data and examining the methodology for themselves. They found errors in the description published in Nature of the data used -- errors that prevented them from duplicating the study. Mann et al., the hockey stick's creators, published a correction in Nature, noting where the description did not match what had actually been done.