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"But as thp evidence mounts on the contribution of toxins to the progression and sustainability of chronic disease, there is a call to action. I continue to be amazed by how effective a detoxification program can be for a person—even someone who didn't think he or she was "toxic" and who doesn't have any specific health concern. Think of detoxification as a way of giving your body the equipment it needs to act effectively as its own shield against these incoming toxins, many of which we just cannot circumvent today." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Alongside creating an awareness of the countless varieties of fruit available, fruit tourism is a hybrid of educational and adventurous ecotourism that is concerned with developing models of sustainability in rural areas. It's a way for traditional family farms to create a new market in the face of corporate farming and for newfound fruit visionaries—like the people I've been meeting—to create viable business opportunities. He explains that he's hoping to convert the orchard at the nearby university into a model fruit tourism destination. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The Crystallizing Contours of a Cooperative World • Money is reassigned from military and defense budgets to fund practical attempts at conflict resolution and the implementation of internationally agreed and globally coordinated social and ecological sustainability projects. • A worldwide renewable energy program is created, paving the way toward a third industrial revolution that makes use of solar and other renewable energy sources to transform the global economy, provide clean water, and lift marginalized populations out of the vicious cycles of poverty." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "International and intercultural mistrust, ethnic conflict, racial oppression, economic injustice, and gender inequality give way to a higher level of trust and the shared will to achieve peaceful relations among states and sustainability in the economy and the environment. We could change direction: with a timely transformation we could create a peaceful and sustainable world. Will we create it? Einstein told us that we cannot solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that produced it. Yet, for the present we are still trying to do just that." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Consciousness of these connections could enable us to shift from today's power- and conquest-hungry Logos-civilization to a Holos-civilization centered on the growth of individuals and the sustainability of human communities and the biosphere. FIVE A New Vision It seems to me that a totally different kind of morality and conduct, and an action that springs from the understanding of the whole process of living, have become an urgent necessity in our world of mounting crises and problems." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "This would create synergisms and forward momentum toward planetary sustainability and peace among individuals, public institutions, and civil society as well as business organizations. • The Third Fundamental Element regards the key skills of interdependent action, today all too rarely present, such as the ability to develop covenantal relationships, engage in meaningful dialogue, engage in critical thinking, develop collective wisdom, and translate vision and ideas into meaningful action and robust processes of change." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"For a farmer, sustainability means breaking even," says Jeff Rieger of Penryn Orchard Specialties, a farm located in northern California. "It means making enough to pay taxes and keep the farm going for another year." Rieger's approach has been to focus on a variety of heirlooms: Arkansas Black apples, greengage plums and Charentais melons. He also makes a traditional form ofjapanese dried persimmons called hoshi gaki. The fruits are dried and hand-massaged over a period of several weeks, pureeing the interior." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The key question that remains is the sustainability of living in the diet and lifestyle of the Culture of Life and not be swallowed again by the shadow of the Culture of Death, which is the predominant culture in the world today. It is this shadow of the Culture of Death in which diabetes is a pandemic symptom and our primary challenge here. Global warming is a similar symptom out of the shadow of the Culture of Death." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Our programs also promote sustainability and address your health and that of our planet on a foundational level. At the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, we are sensitive to people who are transitioning into the Culture of Life and provide guidance to support a positive and uplifting experience. We also offer post-program assistance to help you maintain the Culture of Life and continue to experience the joy and inner peace of this beneficial lifestyle upon returning home for your self and your communities. PILGRIMAGE..." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Earth's species in both beneficial and destructive ways and we seek to promote lifestyles that lead to social justice, sustainability, and ecological security for all the life on Earth and in so doing, we live with conscious intent; ?" - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"These sorts of restrictive approaches may result in feelings of hunger or dissatisfaction, which can limit their acceptability, sustainability, and long-term effectiveness [55-57]. Conversely, consuming a diet low in energy density allows energy intake to be reduced without strictly limiting food portions. Figure 4 depicts the total amount of food that can be consumed for 1400 kcal at three different energy density levels. The energy density values in the figure correspond to a low- (1.4kcal/g), medium-(1.9kcal/g), and high-energy-density (2." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"FRESH CHEESES þFarmer cheese (1 cup) þFeta cheese (1/2 cup) þLow-fat cottage cheese (1 cup) þMozzarella cheese, water packed (1/2 cup) þRicotta (1 cup) •Note: For more information on all species of fish, including sustainability problems, the Monterey Bay Aquarium offers excellent regional guides to fish, noting which are endangered, at /www.mbayaq.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw regional.aspx." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"And then you will achieve a lasting program built on my simple equation: doability + taste = sustainability. If you really want to "put the pedal to the metal" and maximize the health benefits of the 101 foods, you need to embrace the power of synergy. As you have discovered from my story, eating a bowl of oats every day can be an effective method for lowering cholesterol. But adding nuts like almonds, walnuts, and pistachios, along with some cranberries and cherries, all submerged in some soy milk, takes that bowl to a whole new level." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"It's because sustainability is a mystery," he said emphatically. "We all come to it through different doors. Some see sustainability as protection against something, as protecting nature. Others see the heart of sustainability as people: 'If there are no villages left, you can forget about sustainability' For others, the door is history and culture: 'If you don't respect your cultural and historical roots, forget it.' To some, like people I work with in Eastern Europe, the door is democracy: 'First of all, we have to be able to participate." - Jeremy P. Tarcher, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Get the book.)

"Eventually we will get to a place in our society where environmental safety and sustainability will be "built into" our homes and workplaces. In the meantime, do an inventory of all the chemicals you are exposed to at work and at home and make a clean sweep. Toxic chemicals have a clear impact on behavior and brain function, both short and long term.44 Reduce or avoid your exposure to them. I recommend a book called Green Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck as a resource to cleaning up your home environment. Toxic Molds Mold exposure is also a threat to our brains." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"The political and social tensions arising from issues of sustainability have led to rebellions in many parts of the world. Some of the descendants of the Classic Maya live in the Lacandon rain forest of Chiapas, where the human population has risen twenty-five-fold since 1960 while tree cover has fallen from 90 percent to 30 percent. Not only has the indigenous Maya population risen rapidly, but land-hungry peasants, Mexicans fleeing persecution, and refugees from Guatemala have settled here as well. Where 12,000 people once lived, there are now 300,000." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The long-term equation of people and sustainability allows for such variables as seasonal rainfall, droughts, and El Nifios. The danger comes when the equation goes out of balance as a result of exponential population growth, or when shortsighted human behavior, such as unbridled forest clearance or uncontrolled grazing, causes soil erosion or incipient desertification. Such behavior is nothing new. We know that much of southwestern Asia was deforested within a few millennia of farming activity." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The issue is sustainability. In 1798 the British clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus drew attention to the dangers of population growth in his famous Essay on the Principle of Population. He argued that human population has a natural tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, and he made a powerful argument for some form of population control. Malthus's judgments were colored by the regular subsistence crises that had beset Europe's poor during the Lit-de Ice Age." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The crisis comes when sudden climate change or population growth renders sustainability impossible. Eleven thousand years ago, the fertile valley of the Euphrates River supported dense stands of wild cereal grasses and thick oak forests. Enormous gazelle herds migrated through the valley in spring and fall. Fish abounded in the slow-running river. Hundreds of for- ager families lived on the edge of the bountiful valley, where food was so abundant that they could live in one spot for most of the year." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"KEY #5: ENHANCE DETOXIFICATION The sustainability of our environment is directly connected to the sus-tainability of our health. Identifying if and how we are toxic, and addressing it directly by changing our habits, our choices, and our purchases in the marketplace, can have a global effect. The connection between toxins and their effects on our brains are well established." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"That is, the way to achieve sustainability is to first grow rich. Growing rich gives you the money to invest in more efficient and less environmentally damaging technologies, which in turn gives you a cleaner environment. There's even a technical description of this process, known as the environmental Kuznets curve. This argument does have some apparent validity. Put simply, we in the Global North got rich essentially by digging and pumping fossil fuels out of the ground and burning them." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Others see the heart of sustainability as people: 'If there are no villages left, you can forget about sustainability' For others, the door is history and culture: 'If you don't respect your cultural and historical roots, forget it.' To some, like people I work with in Eastern Europe, the door is democracy: 'First of all, we have to be able to participate. If people try to tell us what to do, forget about sustainability.' "I try to let people unravel rhe mystery for themselves. What is quality of life to them? Otherwise, they can't go forward." - Jeremy P. Tarcher, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Get the book.)

"In this last context, the foundation sponsors the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program and other fish advocacy groups that encourage consumers to understand sustainability and safety issues and to make more thoughtful seafood choices. Despite the obviously worthy goals of these groups, the fish industry says that they and their "multibillion-dollar" foundation funders do not really care about the public: "the PCB issue is not necessarily about public health . . . environmental groups are using food safety—specifically seafood safety—to garner public attention for environmental issues." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Green Life, a sustainability group, is deeply critical of the Business Roundtable's initiatives.37 According to Green Life, "Climate Resolve's expectations are set low, while its spotlight is turned on only when participants are flattered by it. Take General Motors, which not only qualified for participation in Climate Resolve, but was noted in the Exemplary Company Actions listed in the program's first progress report. . . for initiatives including 'the removal of bulbs illuminating the front panel of over 100 vending machines." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Meantime, Mitsubishi's entire production facility works toward sustainability, promoting zero emissions, and reducing greenhouse gas and chemical emissions. Mitsubishi presents some startling refrigerator facts at its Web site: "In fact, in Japan alone, the combined savings in electricity from use of Mitsubishi Electrics latest model refrigerator throughout its full product lifecycle can yield sufficient energy savings to serve approximately 72,000 average-sized homes in Tokyo—a major metropolis with more than 13 million inhabitants—for a full year."52 Visit www.mit-subishielectric.com." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Today, as we are restoring our forests and limiting destruction by aiming for sustainability, our economy is thriving." People today in Costa Rica make a living out of positive forest-related activities that aid in the health of the environment and economy—and that is what is unique about the nation. Tourism rivals bananas as the country's number one industry and will probably surpass agriculture, Rodriguez told me." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Hollender's Seventh Generation is leading the pack in the hunt for what market analysts call Lifestyles of Health and sustainability (LOHAS), those 68 to 78 million or more youthful boomers and cultural creatives who are maturing into ecologically conscious, and long-lived, consumers. The New York Times calls the $230 billion spent to support LOHAS consciousness "the biggest market you've never heard of." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"FISH DILEMMA #4: NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS VERSUS THE sustainability OF FARM-RAISED FISH This last dilemma has to do with the environmental cost of obtaining the nutritional benefits of farmed fish. As the fish industry and many health authorities say again and again, fish are an excellent source of protein, vitamins, and minerals; are low in saturated fat; and are the best sources of the omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Our costs are down, not up, Ourselves if we disproving the myth that sustainability is a costly thing to forget this do. If you take an industrial enterprise like ours and errand, approach it in the round as a total system, you find that —Woodrow T. savings here can fund improvements there, and, overall, Wilson you optimize the total system as opposed to optimizing a component of the system." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

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