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How to Help One of Nature’s Most Noble Creatures – The Hawksbill Sea Turtle

How to Help One of Nature’s Most Noble Creatures – The Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Waking Times

It is often easy to look at the problems in the world without seeing ways in which you can actively participate in solutions. Finding opportunities to roll up your sleeves and do some good in this world can be a very difficult thing to do, and for those … More

May 18, 2013 | By | Reply More
Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs

Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs

Heidi Stevenson, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Years ago, Gaia Health informed that bee dieoffs are a direct result of pesticide nerve agents called neonicotinoids. The term, Colony Collapse Disorder, is fraudulent, designed to direct attention from the known cause. Agribusiness, the poison manufacturers making death-producing pesticides, is the other More

May 16, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
A Brief Introduction to Aquaponic Gardening

A Brief Introduction to Aquaponic Gardening

Jonathan Parker, Guest
Waking Times

Aquaponics is an amazing permaculture method that may have been practiced as far back in history as the Aztec civilization. There are records of the Aztec people raising fish alongside of crops that were alien to the growing environment, using the nitrite and ammonia rich … More

May 13, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
How the Media Prevents Meaningful Discussion About the Condition of Our Environment

How the Media Prevents Meaningful Discussion About the Condition of Our Environment

Alex Pietrowski, Staff
Waking Times

For a normal human being who understands the value of having clean air and water to consume, clean soil to grow food in, and of living in a habitat that can support life, it is frustrating to watch one environmental calamity occur, after another without … More

May 9, 2013 | By | 16 Replies More
Consciousness and the Direction of Structure

Consciousness and the Direction of Structure

Tony Wright, Guest Writer
Waking Times

Solving the mystery of human evolution using Darwin’s basic theory required no more than a simple reinterpretation of existing data and the application of basic biological principles. The same approach simultaneously resolves several other major enigmas in disciplines rarely considered within the same context. … More

May 6, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Palm Oil Health Craze May Push Animals to Extinction While Destroying the Environment

Palm Oil Health Craze May Push Animals to Extinction While Destroying the Environment

Carolanne Wright, Natural News
Waking Times

Red palm oil has burst onto the health scene as a miracle food, helping to heal everything from cardiovascular disease to Alzheimer’s to cancer. However, as it becomes more popular worldwide, a dark secret has come to light. Due to its lucrative value, rainforests … More

May 3, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: Filming a Slaughterhouse From the Street

First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: Filming a Slaughterhouse From the Street

Will Potter, Green Is The New Red
Waking Times

Amy Meyer wanted to see the slaughterhouse for herself. She had heard that anyone passing by could view the animals, so she drove to Dale Smith Meatpacking Company in Draper City, Utah, and from the side of the road she could … More

April 29, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Analysis Finds 55% Ground Beef, 39% Chicken Contaminated with Superbugs

Analysis Finds 55% Ground Beef, 39% Chicken Contaminated with Superbugs

Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society
Waking Times

Would you still eat that turkey burger if you knew it contained antibiotic resistant bacteria? Maybe not. But if you eat turkey, there’s a good chance you are ingesting some of these potentially lethal “super bugs”. The same holds true for beef, chicken, and … More

April 20, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Judge Orders Pink Slime Silence to Protect Company

Judge Orders Pink Slime Silence to Protect Company

Heather Callaghan, Guest Writer
Waking Times

Iowa State University has conducted food safety research of the beef product deemed “Pink Slime” by the mass public.

Lean-finely-texturized-beef (LFTB) is a meat filler made from ammoniated boneless lean beef scraps, connective tissue or similar products, which are considered unfit for … More

April 12, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
‘What Can I Do?’ – Farmer Joel Salatin Answers This Important Question

‘What Can I Do?’ – Farmer Joel Salatin Answers This Important Question

Joel Salatin, Guest for Wanderlust
Waking Times

“What can I do?”  Perhaps the most common question people ask me, this simple request is filled with angst and hidden perceptions. Often a sigh accompanies the question, kind of a resignation to the power and position of the current food and farming … More

April 9, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
The Convenience of Plastic Is Killing Our Oceans

The Convenience of Plastic Is Killing Our Oceans

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
Waking Times

About 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year. In the US alone, about 30+ million tons of plastic waste is dumped into the solid waste system, including various plastic containers, bags and other types of packaging, with only about 10% being recycled.… More

April 8, 2013 | By | 8 Replies More
Could Oregano Oil Replace Antibiotics in Livestock Treatment?

Could Oregano Oil Replace Antibiotics in Livestock Treatment?

Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society
Waking Times

A growing number of people don’t want their meat raised with antibiotics. Due to concerns of antibiotic-resistance, animal treatment, and personal health, more and more individuals are seeking out food makers that specifically buy only antibiotic-free meats. What was once an extremely small … More

April 2, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
Making Money and Living the Lie

Making Money and Living the Lie

Barbara H. Peterson, Guest Writer
Waking Times 

Compromise. That’s what it’s all about, eh? We are taught from early on that the only way to get along is to go along. Meet halfway, in the middle. Don’t be such a stickler. Nothing is so sacred or important that it cannot … More

March 26, 2013 | By | 20 Replies More
Record Manatee Deaths, But ‘Experts’ Say No Harm To Humans

Record Manatee Deaths, But ‘Experts’ Say No Harm To Humans

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times 

Never before in the history of tracking red tide in Florida have so many manatees died as a result of exposure. Despite this concerning fact, ‘experts’ are towing the party line that there are no human harms associated with long-term exposure. Are they More

March 13, 2013 | By | Reply More
20 Places to Find Local Food and Family Farms Near You

20 Places to Find Local Food and Family Farms Near You

Heather Callaghan, Guest Writer
Waking Times

As demand for local and raw goods continue to rise, more people are asking – where do I find local organic? Where do I find raw milk and join a herd share? Where are the farmers markets, co-ops and stands?

Search engines are actually … More

March 8, 2013 | By | Reply More
Has Shark Fin Consumption Peaked at 100 Million Dead Sharks Per Year?

Has Shark Fin Consumption Peaked at 100 Million Dead Sharks Per Year?

Jeremy Hance & Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay
Waking Times

While a new study warns that up to 100M sharks are killed annually, there are signs out of China that demand for shark fin may be on the decline.

A study published last week in the journal Marine Policy estimated shark … More

March 5, 2013 | By | Reply More
5 Fracking Consequences You’ve Never Heard About

5 Fracking Consequences You’ve Never Heard About

Lisa Garber, Natural Society
Waking Times

We know fracking isn’t exactly the safest of practices. We’ve heard of its propensity to pollute our air and drinking water and thereby raise human health concerns. The media, however, isn’t talking about the massive sinkholes pockmarking the nation, the radiation leaks, and other … More

February 27, 2013 | By | 4 Replies More
Who Will Save The Honey Bee? EU Mulls Pesticide Ban While US Set to Approve More

Who Will Save The Honey Bee? EU Mulls Pesticide Ban While US Set to Approve More

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
Waking Times

There are a number of grave ecological crises nagging at the status quo of modern life. Though the mainstream media prefers not to cover the enduring impact of events like Fukushima, the Deepwater Horizon or Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, the truth remains … More

February 26, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More
Bees and Flowers Communicate Using Electrical Fields

Bees and Flowers Communicate Using Electrical Fields

Waking Times

Flowers’ methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to a new study, published today in Science Express by researchers from the University of Bristol. However, for any advert to be successful, it has to reach, and be perceived by, … More

February 24, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Front Yard Food Gardens – Defying Conformity and Challenging Authority

Front Yard Food Gardens – Defying Conformity and Challenging Authority

Anna Hunt, Staff Writer
Waking Times

With urban farming becoming more popular and more common, people are starting to consider their front and back yards as a potential space for growing healthy, organic produce. Yet, front yards may actually be off limits if you’re thinking of starting a food … More

February 23, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More