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"Some of the evidence for this is archaeological, but we can also get a good idea of how our ancestors may have lived by looking at various contemporary indigenous cultures that have not yet been overly influenced by contact with Western civilization: the Kogi of colombia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, the Penan in Malaysia. These people often know many simple truths that we appear to have forgotten. They smile at our attachment to things, and at the energy we put into trying to be masters of our world. In general, they are content with life." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Fray Pedro Simon reports, in his Noticias historiales de las conquistes de Tierra Firme en las Indias Occidentales (Cuenca, 1627), that after work had been begun amongst the peoples of Tunja and Sogamozzo in colombia, South America, "the demon of that place began giving contrary doctrines." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"In 1976, doctors refused to treat all cases except for emergencies in Bogota, colombia, for a period of 52 days. The death rate fell 35%. In 1976, a slowdown of Los Angeles doctors resulted in 18% fewer deaths. Patients trapped in the medical matrix must wake up. We should not have to fear entering hospitals. Healing sites should not be life threatening! They should be places of rest, relaxation, revitalization, detoxification, and recovery. I remember spending nights in hospitals with loved ones." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Brazil is the largest producer of coffee, followed by colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Kenya, Indonesia, Yemen, and Vietnam. Hawaii and Puerto Rico also grow and produce coffee. Why Should I Drink Coffee? Did you know . .. moderate intake (three six-ounce cups per day) of coffee provides the same amount of hydration as an equal amount of water? This is especially true for "seasoned" coffee drinkers. Coffee doesn't contain significant amounts of vitamins or minerals, yet its antioxidant properties are off the charts. It is one of the top antioxidant beverages consumed worldwide." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Japan's yakuza, Hong Kong's triads and Colombia's drug barons all launder money with fruits. Fruits even figure in the weapons trade. The documentary film Darwin's Nightmare features a chilling scene of a pilot revealing how he shipped arms to Angola and returned to Europe with grapes from Johannesburg. "The children of Angola received guns for Christmas," says the pilot, overcome with emotion. "European children received grapes ... this is business." The only way to thrive in the fruit racket is to be what the Yiddish call a hondler. a fast-talking negotiator who gets things done." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Using brute force as their main negotiating tactic, representatives of the United Fruit Company opened fire on striking workers in the Santa Marta Massacre of colombia. Their "Great White Fleet" was used in the world wars to transport soldiers and supplies. They funded the Bay of Pigs invasion to protest Castro's nationalization of plantations. They engaged the Hon-duran army to bulldoze villages to make way for processing plants and banana fields. They were caught by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission bribing Central American presidents to reduce export taxes." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Billionaire fruit barons importing illicit substances on eighteen-wheelers from colombia. Indentured laborers dying in tropical fields. But things are changing. There are alternatives to monoculture, whether it's velvety peaches that gush nectar or heirloom pears dating back to the Renaissance. Growing these blasts of taste-bud bliss requires obstinacy, perseverance, and above all, passion. Fortunately, small producers' devotion is being mirrored by consumers and chefs, with the ensuing coverage in food media contributing to the emergence of rockstar farmers." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"England —burned in Indonesia and Brazil, along with vast areas of Papua New Guinea, colombia, Peru, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, and the Congo. Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, head of the fund's forest program and one of the report's authors, said, "1997 will be remembered as the year the world caught fire." No one really knows what the long-term effects will be. The rainforests are an important organ of the biosphere and exert a considerable influence on the earth's climate. Moreover, the destroyed areas cannot easily be reclaimed." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"A fuzzy golden orb with green flesh that grows on trees with enormous purple-veined leaves, is used to make a popular juice in colombia, Peru and Ecuador. The Campbell's soup company invested years and millions of dollars attempting to popularize naranjilla in North America in the mid-1960s. Test-marketing of the juice garnered rave reviews, but the project was abandoned in 1972 because the juice's high price deterred consumers accustomed to cheaper domestic fruit drinks. In this era of boutique juices, naranjilla juice could make a comeback. How do you make a hit fruit?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Americans described themselves as being particularly vulnerable to anxiety disorders and impulse-control disorders, reporting them at double the rates of every other country but colombia and France. Almost 8 percent of Americans reported having suffered from a serious mental disorder, a rate about three times higher than any other developed country in the survey.44 In reporting the story, The New York Times stated, bluntly, about Americans: "Most Will Be Mentally 111 at Some Point, Study Says." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"I live in Cali, colombia. A few days ago I listened [to a talk] about the placebo effect. My father has cancer, and I believe a placebo can help him. I need to know where I can get the sugars pills or saline injections, and how I must to give them to him. My father's doctors have said that his cancer is very bad, and it's so difficult to treat. He has been following a treatment for 8 years, but he always falls ill again. I think the placebo effect is his last hope. If you can help me, I'll be grateful all my life. How did we arrive here?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Opposite: Bogota, colombia, has become a hothouse of innovation. A cyclist admires the view of the city (left), which has set aside IBB miles of designated bike lanes. Women celebrate the Night for Women (right), during which female Bogotanos reclaimed the streets in 2001. tionary." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Redistribute the tools for invention and innovation, and the citizens of the megacities will remake the world, as Bogota mmmm Like many emerging megacities, Bogota, colombia, is a mess. Unlike many emerging megacities, though, Bogota has had inspired leadership and a determined citizenry, and is already gaining ground on its problems. Three Bogota mayors in succession have tackled the city's obstacles with passion, style, and innovation. Bogota has gone from being almost unliv-able to being full of vitality (if still grappling with serious challenges)." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"CANADA* • NEW ZEALAND • »IRELAND BELGIUM*#US -SWEDEN a AUSTRALIA GERMANY,* » aw i kali a • ' «NORWAY • ITALY AUSTRIA •FRANCE • CZECH * PORTUGAL • •FINLAND HONGKONG HUNGARY BULGARIA • 0 POLAND venezuelav™e0mania PANAMA GR££CETpiNYUGOSLAVIA _| PHILIPPINES • colombia • PUERTO RICO JAPAN V MEXICO jCEYLON •TAIWAN • THAILAND • • EL SALVADOR _ -1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1- 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Animal Fat Intake (g/day) CHART 4." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"In Turkey, gecekonduler. In colombia, callampas. In Peru, pueblos jovenes. In Kenya, vij'iji. In Indonesia, permukiman liar or kampung liar. In French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean, bidonvilles. They are the most dynamic parts of the fastest-growing cities in the world—self-built, self-designed, and self-motivated. They are squatter neighborhoods: shanty-town communities created when people take over land they don't own. In English, many call them slums. And, frozen in time, the word fits." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The World Health Organization, in two different studies (1979 and 1992), reported that the United States and other "developed" countries are inferior to "developing" countries such as India, Nigeria, and colombia in helping people diagnosed as psychotic to recover. One can only speculate why recovery rates are better in both underdeveloped nations and traditional cultures. One reason could be Western medicine's reliance on drugs, and another reason could be modern society's relative absence of gentle, supportive, healing groups." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land edited by Norman Wirzba (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004) There's no doubt that the last century has been witness to a concerted movement away from agrarianism and toward a globalized, industrialized planet—with avocados from California, rice from Thailand, coffee from colombia." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"They ranged from Ethiopia, where the mines were primarily in parts of the country where there was no coffee, such as Tigray by the Eritrean border, to colombia, where mines and less formal explosive devices were inextricably intertwined with coffee, creating three new victims each day. There was Angola, which once earned over 90 percent of its export dollars from coffee. That number had dropped to less than 2 percent, as the roads were so heavily mined that even if the coffee could be picked it would be nearly impossible to get it to the ports safely." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "I didn't mention that some organic farms in colombia were losing their certification because the aerial sprays drifted onto their coffee plots. Many of these were farms that had given up coca for coffee and other crops to break away from the cycle of violence and ecological damage related to cocaine production. I stroked the leaves of one plant. They were firm and deep green. The stems were thick and flexible, apparently very healthy. But to Javier's knowing eye, there was a problem. "The flowering comes too early and drops off before the berries can take hold." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, Kenyan processing costs are probably the highest in the world—five times those of colombia and a third higher than those of Costa Rica, according to a European Union report. But according to Kenyan law, KPCU could take no more than 20 percent of the auction price for milling, et cetera. It had to return 80 percent to the co-ops. The co-ops then take their administrative costs and pass the rest down to the farmers. This should have left the farmers with around a dollar a pound to put in their pockets." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "He was unaware that the IPCC report stated that colombia would heat up dramatically in the next twenty years and lose 90 percent of its glacial snowcaps by 2050. Javier saw the results of a warming planet clearly in the premature flowering of his coffee plants on his four-acre family farm in the slopes above Nabusimake, the capital of the Arhuaco nation. He showed me the smaller, weaker berries that dotted the stems and wondered why the outside world wanted to harm these beautiful plants. Why were we changing the world?" - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"About two-thirds were born in Korea and other Asian countries, and another 18% were born in colombia. The investigators studied three groups of adoptees: a biological sib group consisting of 111 pairs of adopted biological sibling pairs raised in the same adoptive home, a non-biological sib group 1. Cantwell, 1989, p. 82. 2. Deutsch, 1989; Deutsch et al, 1982. 3. Alberts-Corush et al., 1986, p. 423. 4. Ibid, p. 422. consisting of 221 pairs of biologically unrelated adoptees raised in the same adoptive home, and a group of 94 "only child" adoptees." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"Farms with reduced shade in colombia and Mexico have 97 percent fewer bird species than those with crops under natural tree canopies."50 Audubon Coffee is Audubon-branded and 100 percent organic, shade grown, and habitat friendly. Visit www.auduboncoffeeclub.com. Cafe Canopy at www.shade-coffee.com offers shade-grown, organic coffees certified by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's standards. ?Put on a Greenpeace Defending the Ocean organic cotton T-shirt and earn some love from tunas and whales. Visit www.greenpeace.org. ?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Origin & history Trees occur naturally in the Amazon jungles of Brazil, Bolivia, colombia, Guiana, Peru and Venezuela. The wild-harvested nuts are an important source of food and income for local people. Parts used Ripe nuts. Cultivation & harvesting The annual production of around 40 000 tons is derived almost entirely from stands of wild trees known as "castanhais" in Brazil or "manchales" in Peru. Harvesting is done by local gatherers, who gather the woody fruits as they fall and then extract the nuts with axes." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"The second study in Cali, colombia studied the effects of providing health services and educational stimulation in the intellectual function of children born to impoverished mothers. These children were also given nutritional supplementation, but treatment did not begin until the children were older—at 42, 56, 60, and 72 months of life. Despite the late onset of treatment and educational stimulation, the cognitive test scores of these children were nearly the same as those of middle- and high-income children. When tested two years later, the beneficial effects persisted." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"O O O o o 20 154 10 < • NETHERLANDS FEMALE «UK # DENMARK CANADA • • NEW ZEALAND ,„r, •SWITZERLAND IRELAND** #us BELGIUM AUSTRALIA«#SWEDEN AUSTRIA* #« GERMANY • ITALY NORWAY • FRANCE • CZECH • • FINLAND • PORTUGAL HUNGARY e HONG KONG * POLAND VENEZUELA* PANAMA "YUGOSLAVIA ^ttLt PHILIPPINES colombia • PUERTO RICO • - « • MEXICO JAPAN • TAIWAN Tu«„,„,n • CEYLON THAILAND ^EL SALVADOR -1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Total Dietary Fat Intake (g/day) that the closer a population gets to consuming a plant-based diet, the lower its risk of breast cancer." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Cultivation & harvesting Large plantations have been established for the production of heart of palm, mainly in Costa Rica, colombia and Brazil. Substantial quantities are exported to Europe and the USA each year. Yields are less than one ton per hectare (heart of palm) and up to 10 tons (fruit). Uses & properties Heart of palm is a delicacy that may be thinly sliced and eaten raw, or may be cooked and used in much the same way as artichoke (with a similar taste). Palm hearts are available fresh or canned." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.) "The others are found at higher altitudes - the papayuelo is restricted to colombia while the babaco, siglalbn, col de monte and toronchi are indigenous to Ecuador. The papaya (and later the babaco) became important commercial crops. Parts used Ripe (or rarely unripe) fruits. Cultivation & harvesting Papayas are easily cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions. One male tree is planted for every 20 female trees. For commercial harvesting, the green but fully mature fruits are picked (but for home use the ripe fruits)." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.) "Between ad 1400 and ad 1700 Arabia (Yemen) maintained a monopoly but today coffee is grown in all tropical regions, with Brazil and colombia as main producers. Parts used Seeds ("coffee beans"). Cultivation & harvesting Coffee thrives only in tropical climates. Ripe fruits are treated to remove the two seeds from the fleshy outer layer and bony inner layer. Uses & properties Roasted beans are ground shortly before the coffee is made (or vacuum- Coffee beans packed). Mocha, Bourbon and Martinique are amongst the most popular types (sometimes flavoured with vanilla or cinnamon)." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"As of July 2005, over thirty governments have expressed their support for the ATT, including the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Finland, Kenya, Spain, colombia, Turkey, and Uganda. The sooner the treaty is implemented, the sooner lives will be saved. Will the planet ever be completely free of arms? Let's start with the ATT, and work from there." A Conversation on the Bridge with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg is founder and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnvc.org), an international nonprofit organization." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

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