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shared by Benno Hansen on 03 Dec 08 - Cached

Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician
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He chose three years as a goal because that was the amount of time it took to have a breeding animal certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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"Whenever you go up the food chain, the costs pile up,"
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"If you don't eat meat at every meal, if meat becomes more of a side dish than a centerpiece, you can fill the plate with healthy organic food for about the same price."
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a dairy farmer who noted that livestock got sick less after a switch to organic practices
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Three years later, he says he has more energy and wakes up earlier.
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Now, he says, he is rarely ill. His urine is a brighter yellow, a sign that he is ingesting more vitamins and nutrients.
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shared by Benno Hansen on 11 Jun 11 - No Cached

what we consider normal levels of energy use, gadget use, clothing purchases, car usage, flying, et cetera etc etc in the really not so distant past were lower.
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Just one example, air conditioning use. What once was considering a luxury is unquestioningly now called a necessity in more and more places--in the process ignoring entirely the fact that 1) air conditioning is a historically modern invention, 2) places used to be built with natural cooling in mind, 3) it simply isn't a necessity for the vast majority of people
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How often people used to eat meat
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how to build communities not centered around de facto mandatory automobile ownership
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how many fish used to swim in streams and the oceans, how many birds used to fly in the skies, how many bigger animals used to be in our forests
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