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By Larry Plesent Molecules just don’t like to stay put. They’re likely to run off and hook up with the first available oxygen or hydrogen they find sitting on the nearest barstool. Having essentially no weight, they are off like a prom dress at the drop of a hat and blown about on the fickle […] A diet for an increasingly toxic planet Image: recipeler.com Today’s Menu: Eating the colors of the planet By Larry Plesent In the April 2018 issue of Green Energy Times, we talked about the North Hollow Diet. The discussion focused on how super nutrition combined with a reduction in exposure to dangerous chemicals is the […] Church Members Commit to Reducing Their Personal Carbon Footprint George Plumb is pictured on the left along with a helper, Dan Jones, while one of the church members signs the pledge. By George Plumb Carbon emissions keep on rising! What we need now is for humanity to change their lifestyles, so that we live […] An Answer to “Magic Hot Button Ingredient” Diets Image: dreamingabouteveryday.wordpress.com By Larry Plesent Did you ever notice how most diets (like cosmetics and supplements) are marketed around a “magic hot button ingredient”? Are you counting carbs? Avoiding sugars? Bulking up on meat? Do you take handfuls of pills for breakfast? Wake to the sound […] Primates Chimpanzee. Image: Flickr By Larry Plesent The thing about ubiquitous invisible cultural perceptions is that they are, well, often invisible. I stumbled onto one of these last week when I saw a pop-news headline claiming once again that chimpanzees are our closest genetic relatives. This, in fact, is not exactly true. According to […] Kung Fu fighters: Pixabay By Larry Plesent My buddy Ivan claims that electron beams come out of our eyes when we look at something. “How else would you explain why people almost always know when someone is watching them?” he would demand. Anyone who has had the experience of turning suddenly to find someone […] The inner bark of the white willow was used for pain relief long before aspirin. Image: Pixaby.com. By Larry Plesent Most of what we call medicinal drugs are in fact synthetic versions of the healing molecules found in plants. Plants, it seems, have been fighting cancer, viruses, bacterial and insect pests for […] St. John’s Wort plant. Image from: Pixabay.com By Larry Plesent It is safe, free, fun and easy to dry your own herbs for those long winter nights to come. All you need is a ball of string and sturdy scissors or small pruners. Here’s how to do it. Start with clean, green, fresh, healthy […] By George Harvey With climate change, New England’s ocean waters have been warming. Temperatures have been going up in the Gulf of Maine, the waters off Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, about as fast as anywhere on Earth, and Long Island Sound is only slightly better. Climate change is beginning to take a toll on […] I have a longtime friend who identifies himself as a scientist. One of his favorite sayings goes like this, “Most people that think science is a body of facts. It’s not. Science is in reality a method of inquiry.” And he is absolutely correct. Generally speaking, scientific method consists first of observation and measurement. […] |
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