Solar News“Solar Energy” Airs on PBS • New E-Vehicles
Genetic Roulette: Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Food An Interview with Jeffrey M. Smith by Jennifer Joe (abstract)
In So.California & SW Concerts Deva Premal & Miten
An interview by Joanie Blaxter (abstract)Self Realization Fellowship Holds and Open House (abstract)
A Good Life, A Good Death By Christy Johnson (abstract)
Thich Nhat Hanh & Deer Park Monastery Go Solar!
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Talking with David Leopold, M.D.
Scripps Holds Conference on Integrative Medicine
On Saturday, Oct 27 the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting the Introduction to Integrative Medicine Conference at Paradise Point Resort in San Diego. Kicking off a weeklong conference for medical professionals, this daylong event for the public will offer scientific facts and practical advice for mind-body health. What's the hard science behind acai berries, lycopene and tomatoes, and other'“superfoods?” Do bio-identical hormones offer advantages over traditional hormone replacement therapy? Can fish oil really help heart disease? How do you tell your physician that you also want to try complementary care in addition to his suggestions?
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Solar News
“Solar Energy” Airs on PBS • New E-Vehicles
PBS will be airing a NOVA production, Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun this Oct. 23 at 8pm. The program tells how people—“ordinary citizens and businesses are bypassing the federal government to lead the way in exploring a clean, renewable source of power: the sun.” It tells why and how, exploring how much of a difference solar power can make. “Can solar technologies, with their high cost and logistical challenges, truly play a bigger role in powering the future of humanity? The grand hopes, latest innovations, roiling controversies, and practical realities of solar power all come to the fore in this program,” they state.
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Genetic Roulette: Documented Health
Risks of Genetically Engineered Food
From E-coli, to tainted imports, the list of issues concerning food safety and our food supply continues to grow. However mainstream media's coverage devotes little consistent attention to one of the most serious health dangers faced everyday by humans, animals and our environment; genetically modified (GM) foods and GMOs. Jeffrey Smith, executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, is a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of genetically modified foods and the author of the acclaimed Seeds of Deception .
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In So.California & SW Concerts
Deva Premal & Miten
In 1990, Miten (mee-ten), born Andy Desmond in London, was leading the music for evening meditation at Osho's ashram in Pune, India when he invited Deva Premal (day-vah pre-mahl) to join them as a singer. Miten had already established (and given up) a successful musical career traveling with such bands as Fleetwood Mac and Ry Cooder. German-born Premal is a classically trained musician whose love of sacred chanting was imbued early on by being sung to sleep with Sanskrit mantras by her spiritually oriented mother. This musical duo has organically woven together their personal and professional lives so intimately that their blended life has become an ongoing expression of their connection to the divine, their concerts being simply one facet of their love of god.
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“I thought you might like to know, that the singer’s “I thought you might like to know, that the singer’s going to sing a song, and he wants you all to sing along. . . .”
Following the lead of the above verse from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, many of the 2500+ visitors to the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) did sing along—especially to All You Need is Love .
The free open house on Sep. 16 offered tours of the 17-acre SRF Hermitage, Retreat and Meditation Gardens in Encinitas founded in 1937 by Paramahansa Yogananda. He wrote most of his Autobiography of a Yogi there.
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A Good Life,
A Good Death
Six years ago nurse-midwife Barbara Kernan went back to school to become a Naturopathic Doctor, but life took her in another direction. In one of her courses she had to do a health self-evaluation.
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Thich Nhat Hanh & Deer Park Monastery Go Solar!
As people around the world celebrated the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21, 2007, Thich Nhat Hanh and the 1,000 people attending his latest retreat, came together for the ground-breaking ceremony and unveiling of solar panels that will allow Deer Park Monastery to rely 100% on Solar power. “Deer Park's conversion to solar energy is one way that we lighten our steps on the Earth and truly arrive as responsible and loving children of the Earth.”
At the direction of Nhat Hanh teachings, they are actively engaging the problem of global warming. The photovoltaic solar panel system will be permanently installed in October. Supplied by Sacramento based Solar Inc., it will produce 66-kilowatts, providing all Deer Park's electricity needs and expected to perform for 25 years. Based on current electricity usage at the monastery, converting to solar energy will prevent the release of 120 tons of CO 2 into the atmosphere per year. Any solar generated electricity not used will be fed back into the grid.
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“Every one of us can do something to protect and care for our planet.We have to live in such a way that a future will be possible for our children and our grandchildren.
Our own life has to be our message””—Thich Nhat Hanh
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