Movies & Book Reviews
Summer Reading
I was fortunate to have a bright sunny week at the beach last week. I unplugged as best as I could and caught up on some reading. Thanks to a speed reading course I took freshman year in college, I’m a voracious reader. After spending much of my summer in a camp garden, my reading [...]
Continue reading »Beyond Fat and Calories
If you read these 3 books and watch these 3 movies, you’ll never look at fat and calories the same way again.
Continue reading »You Need to See this Movie
Concerned about the economy? The oil spill? Climate change? Here’s something you can do about all three that is positive and uplifting. See this movie!
Continue reading »Tapped
The movie was worth watching, but the obnoxious CEO of Nestle Waters was what turned my kid into an activist.
Continue reading »3 Earth Week Movies
Three important films that you must see this week. Watch the trailers and get set to learn more!
Continue reading »Proud Mama
I don’t brag very often about my kids, tonight is an exception. My youngest daughter is playing Maria in her middle school’s version of the Sound of Music. OK, so the camera is a bit shaky and the lighting is a little bright with my FLIP camera, bet get a load of this voice! It’s [...]
Continue reading »Book Review: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
A friend recommended The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight to me recently. Its one of those books filled with the bad news that makes many look away: we are running out of cheap fossil fuel, clean water and other scary stuff. The author Thom Hartmann, who has written many books on ADHD, makes an argument [...]
Continue reading »Music Break!
Continue reading »Reads for Eaters
There has been an explosion of food and nutrition related books over the past few years. People ask me all the time what books to read to get up to speed with food. Not to overwhelm you, I taken my top 100 favorite books on the subject and cooked that list down to just 7. [...]
Continue reading »Movie: A Crude Awakening
Addictions of any kind can result in catastrophe when the supply falls short or the costs rise beyond reach before curing the addiction. Like it or not, we live the way we do thanks to cheap fossil fuels, and like it or not, we are addicted to them. That will be changing in the years [...]
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