Category: Environment

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff
So here we are: today NEWS people are now reporting that scientists are just beginning to suspect that the oil spill is much worse than initially reported.
No surprise there.
It’s the old mushroom philosophy: ‘keep people in the dark and see how much manure you can pile on.’
While I hesitate to compare people to mushrooms, [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff
Gradually in this age we are remembering, authentic religious and spiritual teachings are tolerant and The main purpose of religion and spiritual development systems is to provide a basis from which a more complete, balanced life and society can be created. Ideally, religion and spiritual development systems provide a set of rules, a moral code [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff
Every day I watch NEWS coverage about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and its growing effect on the region, and I am filled with a deep, profound sadness. It just isn’t the poor ‘greaser’ birds that are covered with slime, or the dead fish and polluted marshlands; or the out [...]

This year, six-year-old Gabriella Laws will be trading in her birthday gifts for clean water in Africa. The Calgary-based girl has created a fundraising web page on Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief’s (CPAR’s) new Face of Giving website – www.faceofgiving.ca and hopes to raise $250 to help provide clean water to community members in [...]

“Being able to share this material with you is a gift and a part of the fulfillment of my life’s purpose,” Oprah Winfrey said on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, as she revealed the 61th Oprah’s Book Club selection “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle. She added, “It was an awakening for me that I [...]

By Lexi Soulios
Around the globe, hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry every night. Over a billion have inadequate access to water. Tens of thousands of children under five years old die each day due to poverty related causes. Why is it that the richest nations allow the poorest ones to suffer any [...]

By Dr. Alan Greene, M.D.
As a father and pediatrician, I’ve changed many diapers—enough to teach me that diapers are a daily reminder that as humans we deplete resources as we consume, and we make messes with our waste.
Those landfill diapers that are so easily tossed into the trash are clearly a major ecological issue. But [...]