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hile some Americans still scoff at the idea of global warming, we are already living with its effects. From drought in the West and historic rains in the East to hurricanes and tornadoes that might have been dreamed up by Hollywood, the manifestations of climate change have touched many of us in a concrete and personal way. Given the politicization of the subject, Americans who are rightly worried about it have begun to wonder if our country will ever move in a more responsible, sustainable direction. Our feature story “Easing Earth’s Rising Fever,” page 14, is not a comfortable read, but it’s an important one. It sums up the complexities of the issue and explains what we can still do to alter our country’s dangerous environmental course. What’s clear is that those of us who care about leaving a habitable earth for our children cannot simply wait and hope for the best. Environmental change—like social change—must begin at the grassroots level. I’m generally not interested in fad diets. As a longtime gardener, it always made sense to me that whole, natural foods were the best thing to feed my family—and I’m pretty sure that science has borne me out! But I’ve heard a lot lately about the Paleo Diet (apparently it’s all the rage with celebrity types), which may be the oldest fad diet ever. Our article “Ancestral Diets” (page 22), explains just what the hubbub is about. Turns out that despite their reputation as insatiable carnivores, our Stone Age ancestors didn’t just gather around the woolly mammoth at mealtime. They were foragers. That meant they ate some meat, but they also searched for and ate fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds—and they did not have access to farmed foods, like grains, dairy and starches. Read about the Paleo Diet and learn why eating like a caveman is a good thing. We also include three Paleo recipes: kale wraps, curried carrot soup and grilled pineapple with cream. You know, just a typical cavemeal. Another couple of articles of note: This month’s issue of Natural Awakenings focuses on the environment, and we are especially pleased with our Green Living feature, page 18, “Shop with the Planet in Mind.” Unfortunately, many businesses misuse the “green” label, capitalizing on people’s desire to do the right thing for the earth. Our article gives you tips for determining which businesses and products are truly eco-friendly—and which ones are full of hot air. Finally, please get to know our Natural Neighbor for October, Judy Bingham, who recently celebrated five years of leading writing workshops for women at her Maryville business, The Write Place. In our profile on page 13, this former Knox County teacher explains how writing can be a vehicle for personal transformation. Hope you’re enjoying fall in Knoxville—there’s nothing like it! And as always, we encourage you to contact us with comments, questions or suggestions at knoxvillena@epbfi.com.
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he Knoxville Group of CHEO, the Complementary Health Education Organization, will celebrate its fourth birthday with a special Moroccan Night program on October 14 at 6:30 p.m. The celebration will feature a belly dance demonstration and a group lesson with Debka and the Oasis Dancers. “Wear your sparkles and bling, and we’ll provide the hip scarves to get you in the swing,” says CHEO’s Diane Minch. In conjunction with the celebration, the group will also hold a brief annual meeting to elect new board members and present a CHEO update. Participants can join CHEO or renew their membership and reserve their listing in the 2014 Holistic Health Resource Directory. “Our print and online directories are an important part of CHEO’s community outreach to spread the word about the options for holistic health and wellness offered by our practitioner members,” Minch says. The event, which is open to the public, will be held in the classrooms of Parkwest Medical Center, 9330 Parkwest Boulevard, Knoxville. The Loudon-Monroe Group of CHEO will host an “Ask the Holistic Nurse” open forum on October 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Rarity Bay Community Center in Vonore, Tennessee. The three panelists, all registered nurses as well as holistic practitioners, will discuss their fields of expertise, which include hypnotherapy, color/sound healing, Brain Gym, energy medicine and bio-frequency therapy. After the presentation there will be a Q&A session and drawings for a bio-frequency therapy session, a color/sound healing session, and a book and DVD on hypnotherapy. The community center is located at 150 Rarity Bay Parkway off Highway 72. CHEO educational meetings are open to the public and free to members and first-time guests, with a $5 suggested donation for returning guests. For more information, visit CHEOKnox.org. See resource guide listing, page 30.
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Kevin Sloan Artist Kevin Sloan’s featured cover art, The Ark, is reflective of the theme of his current works: the exploration of natural history with a sense of wonder and curiosity. He explains, “The natural world, now more understood and familiar than in the past, is increasingly threatened. This makes it once again rare and exotic.” Sloan deftly employs a combined allegorical, social and political lens in his paintings to start a conversation about our relationship with nature in the modern era. His artistic journey in “magic realism” most recently led to a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. He’s shared his artistic knowledge and passion through teaching positions with the University of Wyoming and San Francisco State University, among others. Sloan earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Arizona, in Tucson, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, in Philadelphia. Many galleries and public collections exhibit his work in the U.S. and internationally. Sloan’s unique compositions are inspired by his extensive travels around the world. He makes his home in Denver, Colorado.
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emp Monkeys, the Knoxville shop that specializes in hemp-based products, is introducing three new lines of hemp and organic cotton clothing for the fall season. “We are excited to bring the California-based Jungmaven line to our shop,” says Amanda Keller, co-owner of Hemp Monkeys. “Jungmaven is made in the USA and offers hip and trendy styles in casual wear.” The Dash Hemp and Soul-Flower clothing lines have also arrived at Hemp Monkeys. “We are the local authority on hemp and are becoming Knoxville’s best source for hemp and bamboo clothing,” says co-owner Amber Keirn. “Many of our customers have bought our hemp/organic cotton blend shirts, and they almost always return for more. Our favorite saying in the store is, ‘Are you sure you want just one of these shirts?’ Sure enough, a few days later most people return to get another one.” Keller notes that hemp is a sustainable fabric and does not contain pesticide residue, like traditional cotton. “Wearing hemp clothing and using hemp-based products is a great way to do your part to help the environment and create healthier living,” she says. “No other crop is so versatile and yet so underutilized. In fact, hemp fabric is so durable it will outlast even the sturdiest cotton fabric.” To check out the new clothing lines at Hemp Monkeys, visit the shop at 4928 Homberg Dr., Ste. 1. Hours of opMedicinal for eration are Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Herbs and Saturday Fall Planting 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information, contact the shop at Dried 865-474-1340. See ad, page 9. Bulk Organic Herbs
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rin’s Meadow Herb Farm and the Anderson County Beekeepers Association are teaming up this month to offer “Herbs and Honey,” a full day of information about the gen865-435-1452 tle art of beekeeping and using natural herbal remedies at home. Find us on FB The event is free and open to the public. Open Experienced beekeepers will be on hand to tell visitors Wed. - Sat. 10-5 everything they need to know to start keeping bees in their backerinsmeadowherbfarm.com yard, including how to raise bees, the clothing and equipment needed, building a hive, collecting honey and more. Visitors can also attend an herbal education program, “Simple Herbal Health Care for the Family,” presented by herb farm owner Kathy E. Burke Mihalczo. The event will be held October 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. Visitors can sample local honey at the Honey Tasting Contest. (They can also bring their honey—locally raised only—to enter the competition). The herb farm gardens, herb shop and greenhouses will be open to those who wish to tour them. Boxed lunches will be available for $8 by reservation (reserve by October 12), and local honey will be for sale while supplies last. Erin’s Meadow Herb Farm is located in the green, rolling hills of East Tennessee in Anderson County, between Oak Ridge and Clinton. The herb farm is open to the public year-round. See ad, page 10.
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hen Oprah Winfrey was asked to list ten books that have mattered most to her, one of her choices was Discover the Power Within You by Unity author and minister Eric Butterworth—a book she said changed her perspective on life, religion and the Bible. Unity minister Rev. Lora Beth Gilbreath will host a class and discussion group on this classic Unity book on Thursday nights, beginning October 3, at 7 p.m. in the café area of Books-A-Million, 8513 Kingston Pike, Knoxville. The book’s subtitle—A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within—hints at Butterworth’s purpose for writing, which he lays out more explicitly in Chapter One: “The history of man on the eternal quest has been a strange odyssey. In his search for the ‘holy grail’ man has looked everywhere and in vain, but he has failed to look within himself.” Gilbreath also hosts Unity Online Radio’s “Hooked on Classics” Internet broadcasts, which can be heard live on Thursdays at 1 p.m. EST on UnityOnlineRadio.org, where all past broadcasts are also archived. Current broadcasts focus on Robert Brumet’s Living Originally: Ten Spiritual Practices to Transform Your Life. Both books can be purchased at Shop.Unity.org. Unity Worldwide Ministries is known for its inspirational magazine, Daily Word (DailyWord.com), and its prayer ministry, Silent Unity (1-800-NOW-PRAY). Unity Transformation, affiliated with Unity Worldwide Ministries, meets every Sunday at 10:55 a.m. at Yoga Haven, 12 Forest Court in the Bearden area. For more information, call Gilbreath at 865809-5207 or visit UnityTransformation. org. See ad, page 11.
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he Center for Peace—a holistic, nondenominational spiritual center located in Seymour, Tennessee—will host a drummaking workshop on October 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jose Gonzalez, the workshop facilitator, says participants will first learn how to build this versatile instrument, and then they will be taught how to use it for healing, relaxation and fun. “This sacred instrument, the drum, is the heartbeat of Mother Earth,” he says.
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eanstalk Company, the Knoxville shop specializing in handmade soy candles, has become the only local retailer operating as an alliance partner with Ten Thousand Villages, a fair trade nonprofit retailer with more than 100 stores in North America. The fair trade system offers artisans in developing countries a fair living wage for their work. “If you love unique, handmade, artistically upcycled goods, then Ten Thousand Villages’ items will delight you,” says Monica Lauber, owner of Beanstalk Company. “They are produced by global artisans focusing on the craft rather than the income. When artisans are paid well for their time and work in favorable conditions, the resultant merchandise is imbued with the culture, talent and spirit of the artisan.” Each purchase of a Ten Thousand Villages product provides income for skilled artisans and their communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Lauber says. “This income means artisans are better able to improve their homes, educate themselves and their children, and put food on the table—living healthier, dignified lives.” Ten Thousand Villages, based in Akron, Pennsylvania, is a leader in the fair trade movement and has provided fair prices, working capital and a market for artisans around the world for more than 66 years. Its artisans use resources that are readily available to them naturally or through materials recycling, producing handcrafts which support local and environmental sustainability. For more information, contact Lauber at 865-805-3511. Beanstalk Company, 5014 N. Broadway, Ste. 6, is open Thursday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. See ad, page 5.
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Solar Panels Almost Breaking Even At current growth rates, solar energy could be harnessed to produce 10 percent of the world’s electricity by 2020. But the greater benefit of clean solar power relies on first realizing an efficient initial payback for all the energy needed to produce the panels. To make polysilicon, the basic building block of most solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, silica rock must be melted at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, using electricity from mostly coal-fired power plants. Stanford University researchers believe that a tipping point when clean electricity from installed solar panels surpasses the energy going into the industry’s continued growth will occur by 2015. As the industry has advanced, it’s required ever less energy and silicon to manufacture and install solar PV panels, along with less wasted silicon, according to Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project. Advances in solar cell efficiency requires fewer panels, and new thin-film solar panels leave out silicon altogether.
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Meet the World’s Greenest Office Building Even on cloudy days, the photovoltaic-paneled roof of the Bullitt Center, in Seattle, Washington, generates all the electricity the six-story structure requires. Inside, commercial office space is equipped with composting toilets, rainwater showers and a glass-enclosed stairway to encourage climbing exercise over riding the elevator. The Bullitt Foundation, founded in 1952, has focused since the 1990s on helping cities function more like ecosystems. Seattle’s new building not only provides space for ecoconscious tenants, but also functions as a learning center, demonstrating how people and businesses can coexist more in harmony with nature. The Bullitt Center was constructed according to a demanding green building certification program called the Living Building Challenge, which lists zero net use of energy and water among its many requirements. The standards far surpass those of the better-known Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. Founder Jason McLennan says the challenge is to encourage others to build more enjoyable, sustainable and affordable structures around the world.
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ne in 10 American adults has received acupuncture at least once and nearly half of them say they are “extremely” or “very” satisfied with their treatment, according to a survey sponsored by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Sixty percent of survey respondents readily accepted the idea of acupuncture as a treatment option, and 20 percent have used other forms of Oriental medicine, including herbs and Chinese bodywork. Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day is observed on Oct. 24. For more information, visit aomday.org.
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causal link between the worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity and phthalates commonly used in soft plastics, packaging and many personal care products is becoming more evident. A Korean study from Sanggye Paik Hospital at the Inje University College of Medicine, in Seoul, shows that the risk of childhood obesity increases with the level of DEHP (di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate) in the bloodstream. The study indicates that phthalates may change gene expression associated with fat metabolism. DEHP in particular is a suspected endocrine disruptor, or hormone-altering agent. Children with the highest DEHP levels were nearly five times more likely of being obese than children with the lowest levels. The scientists studied 204 children ages 6 to 13, of whom 105 were obese. A chemical commonly used to soften plastics, DEHP is found in some children’s toys, as well as myriad household items. Phthalates can be found in pacifiers, plastic food packaging, medical equipment and building materials like vinyl flooring. Personal care products such as soap, shampoo and nail polish may also contain phthalates.
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ulse (palmaria palmata), a protein-rich red seaweed, could become a new protein source to compete with current protein crops like soybeans, according to scientists at Ireland’s Teagasc Food Research Centre. Dulse harvested from October to January usually has the highest protein content. This functional food also contributes levels of essential amino acids such as leucine, valine and methionine, similar to those contained in legumes like peas or beans. It may even help protect against cardiovascular disease. The Agriculture and Food Development Authority reports that for the first time, researchers have identified a renin-inhibitory peptide in dulse that helps to reduce high blood pressure, like ACE-1 inhibitors commonly used in drug therapy.
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t’s high season for grapes, and consuming any variety of this sweet fruit—red, green or black— may help protect against organ damage associated with the progression of metabolic syndrome, according to new research presented at the 2013 Experimental Biology Conference, in Boston. Natural components in grapes, known as polyphenols, are thought to be responsible for this benefit. Metabolic syndrome comprises a cluster of conditions—increased blood pressure, high blood sugar level, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels—that occur together, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Working with lab animals, researchers found that three months of a grape-enriched diet significantly reduced inflammatory markers throughout the body, most significantly in the liver and abdominal fat tissue. The diet also reduced the fat weight of the animals’ liver, kidneys and abdomen compared with those that were on a control diet. The grape intake also increased markers of antioxidant defense, particularly in the liver and kidneys. “Our study suggests that a grapeenriched diet may play a critical role in protecting against metabolic syndrome and the toll it takes on the body and its organs,” says lead investigator E. Mitchell Seymour, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan Health System. “Both inflammation and oxidative stress play a role in cardiovascular disease progression and organ dysfunction in Type 2 diabetes.”
xposure to mercury in young adulthood can trigger serious health issues later in life, according to two recent studies. New Indiana University research confirmed a link between mercury exposure and diabetes in young adults ages 20 to 32 at the beginning of the study in 1987, and was periodically reassessed six times through 2005. Those with high mercury levels at the beginning of the study were 65 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes as they aged. Also, Swedish researchers report that high mercury levels from eating contaminated fish leads to a higher risk for heart attacks in men. However, eating clean coldwater fish high in healthy omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon, countered the increased risk from the mercury exposure, according to conclusions published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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the use of barcodes in clothing ow did you get and the purchase of a new into the dry-cleaning machine business?” that uses an environ That’s the quesmentally friendly tion I’m asked the solvent. most—by custom Barcodes have ers, college friends been used in the garand almost everyone ment industry for several at whatever function I years, but only recently happen to be attending. they been an The long and short We embraced the idea have affordable technolof it is that I used to teach high school, of “reduce, reuse and ogy for dry cleaners. Barcodes allow us and I was approached by a student’s parents, recycle” well ahead of to track a garment throughout the cleanwho presented me most local cleaners. ing process and keep with the opportunity a historical record of how many times to own a business. It just happened to the garment has been cleaned. They also be a dry-cleaning business. After doing provide us with a detailed description a lot of research and consulting with a of each garment. This technology is very number of people in the business world, I felt ready to move forward with the new sophisticated, and there is only one other cleaner in Knox County that uses it. We endeavor. While I’ve owned the business since were the first local cleaner to use it on all the garments we clean. 2002, Crown Cleaners was established This July, we installed a state-of-thein the 1960s. An exact date is hard to art dry-cleaning machine built in Italy find, but we know it is over 40 years old, and installed by WAG Equipment, based as some documents point to 1968 as its inception. (Some of our customers say it’s in Nashville. WAG Equipment, which specializes in installing this type of maeven older than that.) Regardless, Crown is one of the oldest cleaners in Knoxville; chine, partnered with us to research the technology and its cutting-edge cleaning in fact, several other cleaners actually started because of Crown (although those solvent, Solvon K4. We made several trips to Atlanta and Charlotte to see the are soap operas for a later day). At one solvent in everyday use and ask questime, Crown had four locations covering tions about the machine, and those trips an area from Alcoa Highway all the way convinced me that I was making the right to Clinton Highway in Powell, and from Bearden Hill to the Northshore/Pellissippi investment and decision for the future. The challenge for the modern corridor. Currently Crown has two locadry-cleaning industry has been to find tions, on Kingston Pike in Bearden Hill a solvent that is as effective as “perc,” and on Northshore Drive. the chemical all dry cleaners once used, Like most businesses, Crown has had its share of challenges throughout the but that doesn’t create a hazardous waste product. Solvon K4 is produced in years. What’s kept us strong and viable is Germany, where the environmental laws the fact that we’ve made a strategic effort are very strict. Kreussler, its manufacturer, to differentiate ourselves from our comis a large corporation with a hundredpetition by embracing technology and year history of making chemicals for the adopting strong environmental values. laundry industry. After years of research, The two biggest technological adKreussler introduced Solvon K4 to the vances Crown has embraced have been
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European market in 2010, with much success. Dry cleaners are notoriously slow to adapt to change, but I recognized early on that it was time for Crown to move forward in its thinking. So in 2008, with the economy turning south, we started adopting sound environmental policies, embracing the idea of “reduce, reuse and recycle” well ahead of most local cleaners. An aggressive campaign to get Crown customers to bring in steel hangers so we could reuse them resulted in a 30 percent decrease in the number of hangers we had to order. Crown also began offering a reusable garment bag (Google the Green Garmento Company, as seen on the TV show Shark Tank) for customers using our pick-up and delivery service. The reusable bag has done well with those customers; now our goal is to increase their use by everyday customers. Finally, we were able to reduce the volume and size of our waste dumpster by increasing our effort to recycle cardboard from our suppliers. Whether we’re adopting new, greener business practices like these or purchasing high-tech equipment to reduce our impact on the environment, we’ve found that our customers have responded. No doubt they recognize these changes for what they are: an investment in the future of Knoxville. See ad, page 32.
Not-So-Dry Cleaning The term dry cleaning is a bit of a misnomer, because clothes are cleaned using a full-immersion process in a liquid, usually a chemical solvent. The word dry comes from the fact that the clothes must be completely dry when they go into a typical dry-cleaning machine. (Some cleaners have switched to “100 percent wet cleaning,” whereby the clothes are washed in water, but the number of wet cleaners is extremely low, and the cost of wet cleaning is usually prohibitive.) Dry also comes into play at the end of the process, because the clothes come out dry from the dry-cleaning machine. Simply put, clothes go in dry and come out dry. Hence the term dry cleaning.
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f anyone has seen the written word change lives, it’s Judy Bingham. After all, she spent 25 years in the Knox County Schools, teaching firstand second-graders how to read and write. But it wasn’t until she retired from classroom teaching that she experienced reading and writing as a path to transformation in her own life. “I retired from classroom teaching to help my husband with his business and pursue my own writing goals,” she says. “At that point, a parade of women and their books began to cross my path.” Rosemary Daniell’s Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives, was the first. Bingham traveled to Atlanta to attend Daniell’s workshops, for the first time writing together in a group and having the opportunity to read aloud. “That experience changed my life,” she says. “I felt as though I’d found the way home to myself. I knew then that I wanted this kind of writing group closer to home.” Then Linda Metcalf’s Writing the Mind Alive came to her attention, and Joan Anderson’s A Year by the Sea. Bingham learned about communities like Write Around Portland and the New York Writers Coalition. Pieces began to fall into place. “In the way life happens sometimes, a space opened up for me to start having writing workshops locally,” she says. “I knew I wanted it to be called The Write Place, and I wanted it to be for women only, a place for community as well as creative self-discovery.”
Bingham opened The Write Place in 2008, at 2611 East Broadway in Maryville, Tennessee, and offered her first workshop, Write to Grow—“Pun intended,” she says—in which participants write from prompts designed to help them learn about themselves. Soon she began hearing from other women who wanted help writing for publication, and Pat Schneider’s Writing Alone and With Others came across her desk. Like Daniell’s method, Schneider’s was a perfect fit, she says. “I traveled to North Carolina to study with Pat, and two years later went to Massachusetts for training to be certified as a leader in Pat’s method of workshopping, the Amherst Writers & Artists Method.” With Write to Grow increasing in popularity, she began offering a second workshop, Write Now, in which the group writes from prompts designed to help them learn more about the craft of writing. Participants may also turn in manuscripts for the others in the group to critique. The value of a writing community goes far beyond mechanical or even creative development, Bingham says. “Through writing as a group, we all gain confidence and a stronger sense of who we are,” she says. “We learn we are not alone.” Pat Schneider takes it further: “Finding out who you are, feeling good about who you are, is the first step toward changing the world, for yourself and for your children.” Bingham says she and the other women who make up The Write Place community can feel the positive differ-
ence writing together has made in their lives. Certainly interest in the workshops has grown steadily. “It’s been five years, and the first Write to Grow workshop is still going, and the Write Now workshop is well into its third year,” she says. “In January 2014, I will begin an evening session of Write to Grow. We’ll meet on the first, third and fifth Thursdays, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.” While writing communities are continuing to gain ground throughout the United States, The Write Place remains a unique resource in the Knoxville area. “Honestly, I don’t know that we have any competition in this area,” she says. “But if we did, that would be OK. I wish every woman had the opportunity to be in a writing workshop like the ones at The Write Place.” For more information about The Write Place, visit JudyBingham.net or contact Judy Bingham at 865-660-4799 or judy@ judybingham.net. See ad, page 15.
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leaders believe that we can still reverse the dangerous current course. “These next few years are going to tell the tale about the next 10,000 years,” says well-known global environmental activist Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. “We’re not going to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. But we can keep it from getting as bad as it could possibly get.”
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enowned “We’re not going to stop opted for the “bunny slope” approach, climate sciglobal warming; it’s too a leisurely descent entist Richard Somerville, Ph.D., late for that. But we can from the ubiquitous use of climateuses simple lankeep it from getting as bad changing fossil guage and sports analogies to help us as it could possibly get.” fuels. Unfortunately, greenhouse gases understand climate ~ Bill McKibben would have had to change and the peak two years ago risks ahead. and now be in decline in order to take A distinguished professor emerithe easy way out. Instead, the amount of tus, researcher at California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere shot past 400 parts per million last May, a author of The Forgiving Air, he likens level that most scientists agree the planet greenhouse gases to a scandal that’s rocked major league baseball in recent hasn’t experienced since long before the arrival of modern humans. years. “Greenhouse gases are the ste “Science tells you, you can put this roids of the climate system,” he says. Although we can’t link them to any much carbon dioxide into the atmosingle weather event, we can see them sphere, but no more,” without changing in the statistics at the end of the seathe planet’s climate too dramatically, Somerville says. “Mother Nature tells son, Somerville says. With the bases loaded, “Look out, because Mother you, you cannot wait 50 or 100 years to solve this. You have to do it in five to 10 Nature bats last.” years. There’s been a general failure to To explain how we could confront the problem, he turns to another sport, connect the dots.” The bit of good news skiing. If we were serious about avoiding is that time has not yet completely run out. He and other pioneering thought a worst-case scenario, we would have
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On the Water Front
Sandra Postel agrees. “Water, energy and food production: These things are tightly linked, and all are affected by climate change.” From Los Lunas, New Mexico, she leads the Global Water Policy Project, a group also focused on
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McKibben’s grassroots group, 350.org, opposes the planned Keystone XL pipeline that, if built, is expected to transport Canadian tar sands oil across the United Bill McKibben States to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Increasing fossil fuel infrastructure, he says, is impractical, and we’d be better off investing in clean and renewable energies such as wind, solar and geothermal. It’s a theme also sounded by Frances Beinecke, president of the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Clean Energy Common Sense. With the Frances Beinecke failure of the U.S. Congress to enact climate legislation, her group, encompassing 1.4 million online members and activists, is pressing the Obama administration to live up to its pledge to regulate the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants. The leading culprits for climate-changing gases, they contribute 40 percent of the country’s carbon emissions. “It’s time to act, and we have to act now,” Beinecke says.
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the climate conundrum, as well as National Geographic’s Change the Course national freshwater conservation and restoration campaign. Competition for water is increasing in several parts of the country, she says, and will only get worse as dry conditions increase demands on groundwater. Endangered sources detailed Sandra Postel in her extensive related writings include the Ogallala Aquifer, vital to agricultural operations across much of the Great Plains, and California’s Central Valley, the nation’s fruit and vegetable bowl. In the Colorado River Basin, which provides drinking water to some 30 million people, water demands already exceed the available supply—and that gap is expected to widen with changes in the region’s climate. In other regions, the problem is too much water from storms, hurricanes and flooding, a trend that Postel and other experts say will also worsen as the world continues to warm and fuel weather extremes. Beyond the loss of lives and property damage, this “new normal” holds stark implications for communities. “We’ve built our bridges, dams and other infrastructure based on 100-year records of what’s happened in the past,” advises Postel. “In a lot of ways, how we experience climate change is going to be through changes in the water cycle. If the past isn’t a good guide to the future anymore, we’ll have to change our water management.” (See nrdc.org/ water/readiness by city and state.)
On the Ocean Front
The world’s oceans are being transformed by climate change in ways we are only beginning to understand. Since the Industrial Revolution, oceans have absorbed a significant portion of the carbon dioxide generated, experiencing a 30 percent rise in acidity; that’s expected to reach 100 to 150 percent above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century, according to the nonprofit National Academy of Science (NAS), in Washington, D.C.
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“Water, energy and food production: These things are tightly linked, and all are affected by climate change.” ~ Sandra Postel “Thank goodness for the oceans, but they are paying a tremendous price,” says Oceanographer Dawn Wright, Ph.D. She’s chief scientist of Esri, in Redlands, California, that analyzes geographic system relationships, patterns and trends. The higher acidity levels are “taking a toll on shellfish such as oysters, clams and Dawn Wright sea urchins, as well as coral reefs, where much aquatic life is spawned,” Wright explains. Climate change may have other devastating impacts on the ocean food chain—and eventually us—that scientists are only beginning to discern. As just one of myriad impacts: Ocean acidification threatens the country’s $3.7 billion annual wild fish and shellfish industry and the $9.6 billion slice of the global tourism business that caters to scuba divers and snorkelers, according to a recent NAS study.
The Way Forward
We can be grateful for some hopeful developments in the call to act. Wright, who has advised President Obama’s National Ocean Council, is overseeing her company’s ocean initiative, which includes building an ocean basemap of unparalleled detail. While less than 10 percent of the world’s oceans’ underwater realms are mapped today, Esri is compiling authoritative bathymetric data to build a comprehensive map of the ocean floor. Public and private sector planners, researchers, businesses and nonprofits are already using this map and analysis tools to, among other things, conduct risk assessments and provide greater understanding of how onshore development impacts oceans’ natural systems. Municipalities are also taking action. New York City plans to restore natural buffers to future hurricanes, while Philadelphia and other cities are restoring watersheds, replanting trees in riparian areas, adding rain gardens, laying permeable pavement and revamping roofs and parking lots to reduce stormwater runoff. Investing in such “green infrastructure” is less costly than expanding “grey infrastructure” such as underground sewer systems and water purification plants. Increasingly, local authorities are relocating communities out of flood zones to allow rivers to reclaim wetlands, an effort which also creates new rec-
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reation and tourism spots. Floodplains buffer against extreme flooding and drought, plus filter stormwater runoff, removing farm and lawn fertilizers and other chemicals that otherwise enter waterways, creating deoxygenated “dead zones” where aquatic life can’t survive, as exemplified by parts of Lake Erie, Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. “These solutions are unfolding here and there,” Postel notes, while also remarking that too many locales are rebuilding levees at their peril and allowing people to return to areas that flood repeatedly. “An amount of climate change is already locked in. We will have to adapt, as well as mitigate, simultaneously.” Somerville, who helped write the 2007 assessment by the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, labels it “baloney” when politicians say there’s not enough time or it’s too expensive to address the problem. “It’s very doable,” he maintains. “First, inform yourself. Second, tell politicians that you care about this. Then raise hell with those who don’t agree. We’ve got to get countering climate change high on the priority list.” McKibben recommends that the country gets serious about putting a price on carbon emissions. Meanwhile, he’s encouraged by the people-powered regional successes in blocking fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas, and credits grassroots groups for holding the Keystone pipeline project at bay. “We’re cutting it super-close” and need to change the trajectory of climate change, according to McKibben, who says we can still have good lives powered by wind and solar, but will have to learn to live more simply. “I don’t know where it will all end and won’t see it in my lifetime. But if we can stop the combustion of fossil fuels and endless consumption, then there’s some chance for the next generation to figure out what the landing is going to be.” Christine MacDonald is a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., who specializes in health, science and environmental issues. Learn more at ChristineMacDonald.info.
Signs Of Changes To Come Without actions to significantly curb greenhouse gas emissions, air temperatures could increase as much as 11.5 percent by 2100, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change pledged in 2009 to keep warming from increasing more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, more recent reports by the World Bank and other institutions warn that the goal may be unrealistic. Continued global warming could cause widespread drought, flooding and other changes, with disastrous consequences. Here are some of the ways climate change has already impacted our lives. Temperatures: The average global temperature for 2012—about 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit—was the ninth-warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. It was also the 36th consecutive year that the global temperature surpassed the 20th-century average, according to the National Climate
Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The problem comes alive in a video at Tinyurl. com/NASAEarthTemps. The EPA reports that the number of days that temperatures will exceed 90 degrees Farenheit is expected to increase throughout the U.S., especially in areas that already experience heat waves. Drought: Drought struck two-thirds of America’s lower 48 states last year, and continued into 2013 in many parts of the country, costing billions of dollars in crop failures and damage from resulting wildfires. Extreme storms: East Coast weather has become wilder, with storms such as Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy wreaking unprecedented losses in human life and property. Freshwater supplies: As melting shrinks glaciers’ historic footprints, reducing the amount of springtime snowmelt, and we continue to deplete groundwater faster than it can be replenished, conflicts between agriculture, industry and municipalities over water are expected to increase. Meanwhile, rising sea levels near some seashore cities have already led to incursions of saltwater, contaminating underground freshwater systems. Rising sea levels: Since 1870, the global sea level has risen by about eight inches, according to the EPA. By the end of this century, it estimates that New York City could see a rise of 2.3 feet and Galveston, Texas, 3.5 feet. Other studies say those estimates are conservative. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in July concluded that a rise of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit could result in a corresponding rise in sea levels exceeding 13 feet.
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Shop with the Planet in Mind Daily Choices Help Counter Climate Change by Christine MacDonald
Until recently, we’ve been asked to choose between the economy and the environment. Now we’re realizing that the two are closely linked, and that our continued prosperity depends on how well we take care of the natural systems that sustain life—clean air, water, food and an overall healthy environment.
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lthough the worst impacts of climate change are still decades away, experts say it’s already a costly problem. In 2012, U.S. taxpayers spent nearly $100 billion—approximately $1,100 apiece—to cover crop losses, flooding, wildfires and other climate-related disasters, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. That’s more than America spent last year on education or transportation. Given the lack of action on climate change by Congress, more Americans are looking to leverage their purchasing power to make a difference. Yet, as consumers trying to “shop their values” know, it’s often difficult to distinguish
the “green” from the “greenwashed”. Natural Awakenings has rounded up some tips that can help.
Dismiss Meaningless Labels
Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., who leads the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports and its Greener Choices and Eco-labels online initiatives, says companies take far too many liberties in product labeling. The dearth of standards and consistency across the marketplace has rendered terms like “fresh,” and “free range” meaningless. Also, there’s more wrong than right about the “natural” label put on everything from soymilk to frozen
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dinners, she says. While critics of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s USDA Organic label say its regulations are not tough enough, Rangan says at least we know what we’re getting. The same is not true of many claims decorating consumer goods, Rangan advises. Plus, producers get away without identifying myriad other controversial practices, she says, including genetically engineered ingredients. To help consumers protect themselves, the Consumer Union and other nonprofit public advocates have made their evaluations easily accessible via cell phones and iPads. The Web-based Good Guide’s evaluations of more than 145,000 food, toys, personal care and household products are at shoppers’ fingertips via an app that scans product barcodes on the spot.
Calculate Impacts
A number of easy-to-use online tools help us understand the far-flung impacts of a purchase, including on humans and habitats. The Good Guide, for instance, employs chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists and environmental lifecycle specialists to evaluate a product’s repercussions on health, environment and society. Sandra Postel, who leads the Global Water Policy Project, has teamed up with the National Geographic Society to devise a personal water footprint calculator. It helps people understand the wider environmental impacts of their lifestyle and purchasing choices,
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and provides options for reducing their footprints and supporting water replenishment efforts. “It takes a per capita average of 2,000 gallons of water each day to keep our U.S. lifestyle afloat,” twice the world average, calculates Postel. The typical hamburger takes 630 gallons of water to produce, for example, while a pair of jeans consumes 2,600 gallons, most of it to grow the necessary cotton. Water is just one of numerous resources overused in the United States, according to author and journalist Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder of Food Tank. “We overbuy food. It goes bad and ends up in landfills,” where it lets off methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as it decomposes. “We also over-order at restaurants,” observes Nierenberg, whose think tank focuses on the interrelated issues of hunger, obesity and environmental degradation. Overall, the U.S. annually accounts for 34 million tons of food waste. “Part of the problem is we’ve lost home culinary skills,” says Nierenberg, who says we need to rethink how and how much we eat. “We don’t really understand what portions are,” she adds.
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Share Instead of Buy
Collaboration characterizes the broader trend in careful consuming that relies on cell phone apps. Sometimes known as the “sharing economy” or “collaborative consumption”, initiatives can range from car and bike shares to neighborly lending of lawn mowers and other tools and sharing homegrown produce. One of the more innovative food-sharing options is Halfsies, in which diners at participating restaurants pay full price for a meal, but receive half of a full portion, effectively donating the cost of the other half to fight hunger. Whatever the product, experts say, the new sharing business model is part of a fundamental shift in how people think about consuming, with the potential to help us reduce our personal carbon footprint and contribute to a more sustainable future. Christine MacDonald is a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., who specializes in health, science and environmental issues. Learn more at ChristineMacDonald.info.
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environments and hat The gentle sounds the flow of water started of water in its many among them. The out as hour-long program a video installaforms are intended as a features 15-minute tion for a museum exhibit of artists’ supportive background segments of each of four ecosystems: interpretation of for meditation, healing, “Bay & Ocean,” climate change & has evolved into 4 relaxation and even sleep. “Mountain Stream,” “River & Earth, a DVD and Forest” and “WetCD by musicians land & Pond.” A 15-minute bonus track and videographers Dean and Dudley shows a composite of all four ecosystems Evenson. While the Evensons are wellon one screen. Two optional soundtracks known for pioneering the use of nature are also available: either nature sounds sounds in their peaceful flute and harp only, or nature sounds with peaceful music, few fans are aware of their background in the portable video movement , music. These intimate video portraits were which began in 1970. shot in high definition, mostly near the Now, four decades later, the EvenEvensons’ home by the Nooksack River sons are tapping into their video roots in the north Cascade Mountains. with a DVD that is part of the video ex“Dean turns his camera in any dihibition. 4 Earth: Scenic Vistas of Ocean, rection from his home and sees beauty,” Stream, River, Pond features stunning images of four unique yet interconnected says Dudley Evenson. “Whether it’s a
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forested valley along a salmon-spawning river where eagles gather to feed in quiet pools, a spring wetland bursting with life, the waterfalls and streams of a summer day, or the snowy white winter peaks of Mt. Baker and Mt. Shuksan, just a short drive from our home, he captures both the power and subtlety of water and earth.” Other locations represented are Bellingham Bay in Washington State, the ocean off the south Florida coast, the Jamaican sea, and the lotus pond next to the Soundings of the Planet recording studio. A soon-to-be-released companion CD, 4 Earth: Natural Sounds of Ocean, Stream, River, Pond, is Dean Evenson’s first album comprised solely of nature sounds from these four interconnected ecosystems. The gentle sounds of water in its many forms are intended as a supportive background for meditation, healing, relaxation and even sleep. Teacher activity guides are available showing how the DVD and CD can be used to enhance learning in multiple disciplines. Suggestions for use also include relaxation, convalescent care, child care, childbirth and healing modalities of all kinds. To order the 4 Earth CD or DVD by Dean and Dudley Evenson, visit Soundings.com or call 800-937-3223 (800-93PEACE).
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Brewster says. Aqua Clear was founded on the belief that better water leads to healthier living, Brewster says. “We work with homeowners and businesses to provide quality water for those they care about,” he says. “We show our clients the difference between water from the tap and the clean, refreshing water that comes through a Kinetico system. The difference in water quality is obvious, through taste and touch.” While such tangible demonstrations are effective, he says, the longterm financial and environmental benefits also sell themselves. “The bottom line is hard to ignore,” he says. “With the right home water treatment, you can conserve energy, help protect the environment and save money in the process. As we tell our customers, green water is great for you and the environment.” For more information call Aqua Clear Water Systems at 865-986-4234 or visit AquaClearWS.com. See ad, page 17.
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egetarian Awareness Month provides a timely opportunity to realize that a plant-focused diet does not derive exclusively from plants. Just as a carnivore does not subsist on meat alone, the same applies to a vegetarian. What can we learn from our Paleolithic, or Stone Age, ancestors? The recent trend toward recreating a Paleoera diet emphasizes the importance of vegetable nutrition to prehistoric communities, correcting the misperception that they were primarily meat-eaters. The original Paleo diet, before the advent of agriculture, reflected the hunting and gathering of lean meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and was absent of grains, dairy, starchy foods, sugar and salt. Today’s updated version might comprise foods naturally available and/or abundant before the cultivation of food in gardens, crops and livestock. Loren Cordain, Ph.D., author of The Paleo Diet and Nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas, author of Primal Body, Primal Mind, each contest the premise perpetuated by many in the weight-loss industry that fat, especially naturally saturated fat, is unhealthy. Those same proponents that maintain low-fat/
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non-fat food is a panacea for modern illnesses also purport that cholesterol is the chief cause of heart ailments. Gedgaudas writes that the diets of hunter-gatherers inhabiting varied landscapes, from the Inuit of the north to tropical forest hominids, included large amounts of fat and cholesterol, which is essential to maintaining cell membranes and regulating hormones. She points out that obtaining cholesterol from food is necessary to augment the liver’s function of creating cholesterol internally. Cordain agrees that even saturated fats in meats can be beneficial, providing the animals are grass-fed, lean and live in clean surroundings. He emphasizes, however, that when our prehistoric ancestors ate fat, they did not also eat grain carbohydrates, sugar and salt, and contends that it is these components, not meat, that can be detrimental to the body. Doctor of Naturopathy Maureen Horne-Paul adds that organic, lean and game meats are exempt from the acidity inherent in corn-based animal feed. Plus, “When an animal is insensitively confined and killed, stress hormones are released that result in acidity. So, we are changing our pH from a healthy alkaline state to a more acidic condi-
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tion when we consume meat from conventionally raised animals.” Scientific studies published in the Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, Medical Hypotheses and by the Mercola group attest to key problems related to human consumption of grains. Anti-nutrients such as phytic acid in grains lead to the poor absorption of minerals and related deficiencies. Improper absorption of dietary protein caused in part by enzyme inhibitors in grains also tends to damage the pancreas. Individual sensitivities to proteins in specific grains can further interfere with functioning of the neuroendocrine system and subsequent emotional difficulties like addiction and depression may arise. All of these difficulties have been exacerbated by irresponsible prenatal diets that have made younger generations extra-sensitive to the challenges posed by grains to the human system. While Cordain doesn’t recommend dairy, Gedgaudas suggests organic or raw milk products, provided they retain their full fat content and come from grass-fed cows. She reasons that the presence of the anti-carcinogenic fatty acid conjugated linolenic acid (CLA) and the Wulzen factor anti-stiffness agent in the fat benefit joint lubrication. Experts suggest that the dietary formula established by our prehistoric ancestors can be the foundation for a modern-day, healthy, non-confining, creative eating experience. We can exchange grains for quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat (not technically grains
Paleo Parallel Tips n Make plants the center. For any meat, choose organic, grass-fed lean cuts and use small portions as sides or garnish. n Limit dairy to items with full fat content. Choose sheep or goat dairy when possible, followed by organic cow dairy. n Limit grains, but explore pseudograins such as buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth to add safe, starch-like body to meals. n For legumes, eat lentils. Blue and sweet potatoes are good choices for tubers.
at all), and include tubers and legumes, due to their folate and protein content. Blue and sweet potatoes also contain high levels of anthocyanins and potassium. Nearly every category of food, in the proper amounts, can be part of such a balanced diet. When we explore what makes sense and eat clean and natural foods, we have a good chance of finding our body’s own sweet spot.
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STARRY-EYED KIDS Clear Skies, Cool Nights Open Vast Vistas by Randy Kambic
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ishing upon a star The magical skies and comfortably cool is an iconic activity This year, families can night sky is nights. steeped in everyanticipate a special viewing one’s childhood desire to of the Comet ISON, which is a perfect attain happiness and fulfillto be visible from playground expected ment. Actual stargazing can much of the United States in help make parents’ dreams for a child’s late November. for their children’s well-being imagination. Getting Started come true, as well. Children are exposed to imaginSky & Telescope magazine’s online ing the larger celestial realm through guide, Getting Started in Astronomy, popular films, science fiction literature offers easy steps for parents to put stars and pop songs, plus more tangibly via in kids’ eyes. Check out its This Week’s current sky events. Consider news of Sky at a Glance link. Find an open the meteoroid that exploded over Russpace like a park or wooded clearing to sia in February and the latest images reduce ambient light and use sky maps from the surface of Mars beamed to us in hobby publications or astronomy by the NASA rover Curiosity. Experienc- books from the library as guides. ing the excitement of early knowledge Binoculars are the best tool to start can bolster academics while fostering getting familiar with the night sky—they a calming sense of the order of nature’s augment the naked eye enough to idenrhythms. tify many Moon craters, Jupiter’s moons “Astronomy ties into every eduand the crescent phases of Venus. Plancational domain—physics, geometry, etariums, science and children’s mualgebra, history and ecology,” advises seums, nature centers and astronomy former elementary school teacher Hiram clubs often hold public family events Bertoch, of West Valley City, Utah, owner that include access to telescopes; some of the KidsKnowIt Network, which main- loan or rent them out. (Find local clubs tains 10 free children’s learning websites, and facilities at SkyAndTelescope.com/ including KidsAstronomy.com. Standing community/organizations.) in awe at the wonders of the universe can Other opportunities include also instill a centering sense of humility NASA’s Night Sky Network of asin the face of such grandeur. tronomy clubs, Astronomy magazine’s Autumn is one of the best times youth programs, SpacePlace.nasa.gov for channeling youngsters’ intrigue and Astronomy.com/kids programs. in constellations, given the clearer Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops offer
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astronomy merit badges. When a family’s interest continues sufficiently to buy a telescope, test preferred models at many potential settings before finalizing a purchase. According to the online guide, a first telescope should provide high-quality optics that limit diffraction (the spreading of light as it passes through the lens system to the eye) and a sturdy, smooth-working mount. More advanced telescopes have built-in computers and motors that can be programmed to point at specific spots in the sky. Whether early steps lead to a later career or as a heavenly hobby, helping to convert a child’s, “What’s that?” to a happy, “I know what that is,” becomes worth encouraging. As Bertoch observes, “Kids have an innate excitement about what’s out there.”
Randy Kambic, in Estero, FL, is a freelance writer and editor who regularly contributes to Natural Awakenings.
Faraway Fun Facts Stars appear to twinkle from light distortions caused by temperature differences in our atmosphere. The lifespan of most stars is billions of years. Ancient peoples saw patterns among the 2,000 stars visible to the naked eye and gave them names like The Big Dipper, Cassiopeia and Scorpius. A “shooting star” is actually a meteor with a trail of gases and particles. The Moon’s surface is pitted with thousands of craters from long-ago meteor strikes. Saturn’s rings are composed mostly of billions of ice particles and rocks. Jupiter is by far the largest studied planet; after the Moon and Venus, it’s usually the brightest object in the night sky. Planets Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Mercury and Mars, as well as Pluto, are named for Roman gods—Venus was the Roman goddess of love. Planets and the Moon don’t emit light—they reflect light from the sun. Source: Don’t Know Much About the Universe, by Kenneth C. Davis
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A Healthy Environment Begins with the Self by Ellen Hitchcock
it is energy in motion. By its very nature it is regenerative and transcendent, just like a human being. When we respond to life, rather than reacting to it, we naturally move more harmoniously in our environment.
The Tree of Intellect “But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.” ~John Muir
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he belief that all life is interconnected is not a new one. The state of our environment can therefore be a reflection of our inner life. Ancient writings on the Trees of Paradise—thought, feeling and intellect—assist us in both our individual and collective search for wholeness.
titudes and beliefs we carry about ourselves and our environment. They have great power to shape our experiences and directly influence our sense of connectedness in the world.
The Tree of Feeling
Emotions are what they are. They move, as do all things, in the ebb and flow of life. The word emoThe Tree of Thought tion means “energy How we think is imThe single-most in motion.” Emoportant to our overall tions can swing up well-being. Thoughts positive action we or down. Sometimes are power. What we hold in our mind incan make for society they are predictable, and sometimes they evitably takes its form and the land is to seem to spring from in the outer world. some mysterious Our attitudes transform our own place. We do not and beliefs influence our experiences in lives so that we are have to repress them, nor do they have to life. Attitudes are not dominated by rule our actions. learned tendencies exthat result in evaluinferior thoughts or pressingWhile all types of ations of ourselves, emotion is natural others, events, or our negative emotions. and healthy, habitual environment, but that and destructive negative emotions lose aren’t necessarily grounded in facts. their positive power and become obBeliefs are ideas we hold as truths in stacles for us and for the environment. our mind; yet they can change quickly Our natural environment is the when different evidence is presented. bosom from whence we come and go; It is important to examine the at-
Intellect is the mind’s capacity for knowledge and reason. It is the practical manifestation of study, reflection and speculation, as well as acquired knowledge. Intellect is guided by study, which by its very nature leads to thinking and acting in rational, orderly ways. It guides us to take part in conversation, discussion or argument. The type of life we lead and our relationship with the natural world affects our divine connection to all things. Learning and growing, correcting our mistakes, speaking up when we witness injustice, all contribute to intellectual growth and the healthy maintenance of our natural world. Trees continue to be powerful symbols of life. Every tradition on our planet has honored trees. The singlemost positive action we can make for society and the land is to transform our own lives so that we are not dominated by inferior thoughts or negative emotions. Our thoughts, feelings and intellect support our superior qualities taking root. We naturally make better choices in our personal lives, setting the stage for a more nurturing and supportive environment. Ellen Hitchcock, LCSW, is a life coach, transpersonal psychotherapist and workshop facilitator. She is the author of Nature’s Magical Moments: Reflections on Nature and Self. Follow her Reflections Blog & Wisdom Whispers Newsletter at CreativeMentor. net or contact her at The Center for Well-Being, Ellen 865-482-9252. Hitchcock
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TN. Experience a deeper spiritual awareness through this ancient form of prayer and purification. Bring towel, change of clothes, flashlight, food to share for the feast afterward. Donations appreciated to cover costs. Info: 865-428-3070.
Unity Book Group – 7 pm. Study and discussion of Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. Books-a-Million café area, 8513 Kingston Pk., Knoxville. Info: 865-809-5207 or UnityTransformation@gmail.com.
Unity Book Group – 7 pm. Study and discussion of Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. Books-a-Million café area, 8513 Kingston Pk., Knoxville. Info: 865-809-5207 or UnityTransformation@gmail.com.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 Essential Oils for Cancer Care (502) – 9am4:30pm. Explore the healing qualities of certain essential oils with an emphasis on oncology. EO chemistry, quality standards, safety and research are discussed, especially as they relate to specific cancers and symptomology. No prerequisites. 6 CEUs. The Avenue, 141 Martinwood Dr., Knoxville. Info: ISHAhealing.com or Margaret Leslie, 865607-0173. Sweat Lodge – 7pm. Center for Peace, Seymour, TN. Experience a deeper spiritual awareness through this ancient form of prayer and purification. Bring towel, change of clothes, flashlight, food to share for the feast afterward. Donations appreciated to cover costs. Info: 865-428-3070.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7 Fire Ceremony – 6:45pm. Center for Peace, Seymour, TN. This focused meditation on a ceremonial fire is perfect for introspection, insight, releasing and transmuting what no longer serves you, or simply participating in a ceremony honoring this powerful elemental force. Free. Info: CFP at 865-428-3070 or Katy Koontz at 865-693-9845.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 Introduction to Healing Ministry (101) – 8:30am–6pm. Class outlines the history of healing from early times, especially Christian viewpoint. Includes guided meditations and hands-on work. No prerequisites. 8CEUs. First Baptist Church, 510 West Main St., Knoxville. Info: ISHAhealing.com or Margaret Leslie, 865-607-0173. Unity Book Group – 7pm. Study and discussion of Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. Books-a-Million café area, 8513 Kingston Pk., Knoxville. Info: 865-809-5207 or UnityTransformation@gmail.com. Southeast Wise Women Herbal Conference – Oct11-13. Ninth annual event near Asheville, NC, celebrates and empowers women and includes workshops on herbal medicine and earth-based healing. Info: SEWiseWomen.com.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 Introduction to Judeo-Christian Anointing (102) – 8:30am-6pm. Class introduces anointing and 9 essential oils used in Biblical times. Handson healing methods derived from the laying-on of hands are introduced. No prerequisites. 8CEUs. First Baptist Church, 510 West Main St., Knoxville.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 Info: ISHAhealing.com or Margaret Leslie, 865607-0173. Reiki Level 1 Class – 10am-5pm. Continue the journey begun in Reiki 1. Learn and practice Reiki symbols, long-distance healing, and more. Practice on yourself and your classmates. Workbook and certificate included. Cost $125, or $111 if prepaid by October 4. Must preregister. Rhama Center, Knoxville. Info: 865-705-2525 or TheresaRichardson.com. Drum-making workshop – 10am-4pm. Jose Gonzalez shows how to make a drum and use it for healing, relaxation and fun. Center for Peace, 880 Graves-Delozier Rd., Seymour, TN. Info: CenterForPeace.us.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 Moroccan Night CHEO birthday celebration – 6:30pm. Belly dance demonstration & group lesson as well as brief annual meeting, board elections. Free for members, first-time guests. $5 suggested donation returning guests. Parkwest Medical Center classrooms, 9330 Parkwest Blvd., Knoxville. Info: CHEOKnox.org
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 Introducing Essential oils into Healthcare Facilities (502) – 1-8:30pm. Class discusses how certain essential oils can enhance the quality of life (physical, emotional & spiritual) for patients/ residents in healthcare settings. Scientific principles of EOs are reviewed with attention to safety and effectiveness. No prerequisites. 6 CEUs. The Avenue, 141 Martinwood Dr., Knoxville. Info: ISHAhealing. com or Margaret Leslie, 865-607-0173.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Thresholds: Gateways to the Unconscious – Oct16-18. Explore four universal “fires of awakening”—Fire of Illumination, Vision, Heart & Wisdom—at the Women’s Spirit Retreat, NC. Registration required. Info: Ellen Hitchcock, LCSW, 865-482-9252 ext. 1 or CreativeMentor.net.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 Sweat Lodge – 6:30pm. Center for Peace, Seymour,
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“Herbs & Honey” event at Erin’s Meadow Herb Farm – 10am-3pm. Free, rain-or-shine event features presentations/demonstrations on beekeeping and simple herbal health care for the family. Local honey sampling/contest. Boxed lunches $8 (reserve by Oct.12). Anderson County, TN. Info: ErinsMeadowHerbFarm.com.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Loudon/Monroe CHEO meeting – 6:30pm. “Ask the Holistic Nurse” open forum followed by Q&A, giveaways. Free for members, first-time guests. $5 suggested donation returning guests. 150 Rarity Bay Pkwy., Vonore, TN. Info: CHEOKnox.org
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Healing Touch East TN meeting – 6:30-8:30 pm. Speaker: Becky Rhines. Topic: Healing Touch in Nursing & Healthcare. Network with persons interested in energy healing. Open to all interested. Oasis Center, 4928 Homberg Place, Knoxville. Info: Linda Sharp, 865-660-4832. Unity Book Group – 7 pm. Study and discussion of Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. Books-a-Million café area, 8513 Kingston Pk., Knoxville. Info: 865-809-5207 or UnityTransformation@gmail.com.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 Touch for Health® 4 – Oct26-27, 9am-6pm. Prerequisite: TFH 3. 15 CE hours for LMTs and acupuncturists. $250 if paid by 10/12/13 or $300 thereafter. Charles West, LMT, 318 Erin Dr., #5, Knoxville. Info: 865-694-3144 or MassageWorksTN.com.
save the date Thursdays in November Discover the Power Book Discussion – 7pm. Nov. 7, 14 & 21. Study and discussion of Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. Books-a-Million café area, 8513 Kingston Pk., Knoxville. Info: 865-809-5207 or UnityTransformation@gmail.com.
ongoingevents sunday Unity Transformation – 10:55am at Yoga Haven, 12 Forest Court, with Rev. Lora Beth Gilbreath. Join us each Sunday for music, meditation, Unity teachings and joyous spiritual connection. Info: UnityTransformation.org Unity of Knoxville – 11am. A spirit-led community exploring all spiritual paths. 141 N. Martinwood Dr., Knoxville. Info: UnityChurchOfKnoxville.org. Youth of Unity (YOU) – 11am. Unity of Knoxville. Come and explore your spirituality with openminded teens. No judgment, lots of fun. Snacks provided. The Avenue,141 N. Martinwood Dr. Knoxville. Info: 865-679-0279. Eckankar Center Sunday events – 11am. First Sunday of month: worship service. Second Sunday: spiritual truths for personal growth discussion. Third Sunday: book discussion, How to Survive Spiritually in Our Times by Harold Klemp. Fourth Sunday: HU Sing. Eckankar Center of Knoxville, 301 Gallaher View Rd., Ste. 226, Knoxville. Info: 865-622-7685 or Eck-Tenn.org.
tuesday “Messiah Training” – 7:30 pm. Center for Peace, Seymour, TN. This weekly program explores how we can allow the divine part of us to define our lives, rather than being awash in definitions of who we “ought to be.” Donations appreciated. Info: Perry Robinson at the Center for Peace, 865-428-3070.
wednesday Write to Grow – 9-11:30am. First, third and fifth Wednesdays at The Write Place, Maryville, TN. Writing workshop for women interested in developing a deeper sense of self through writing. Info: 865-660-4799 or judy@judybingham.net.
Write Now – 12:30-3pm. First, third and fifth Wednesdays at The Write Place, Maryville, TN. AWA creative writing workshop. Learn about the craft. Gain perspective on your writing and confidence in your voice. Info: 865-660-4799 or judy@judybingham.net. HU Sing – 7:30pm. Second Wednesdays. Chant the holy word HU, a love song to God. Eckankar Center of Knoxville, 301 Gallaher View Rd., Ste. 22, Knoxville. Info: 865-622-7685 or Eck-Tenn.org.
thursday Spiritual Study class: The Easy Way Discourses – Fourth Thursdays. Eckankar Center of Knoxville, 301 Gallaher View Rd. Ste. 22, Knoxville. Info: 865-622-7685 or Eck-Tenn.org.
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relationships, career, life purpose. Find the answers you are seeking and further your personal and spiritual growth through professional intuitive guidance. Available by appointment at Nine Wellness Centre, 3113 Gose Cove Ln., Knoxville. Info and appointments: 865-531-9086, PamelaNine@msn. com, PamelaNine.com.
monthly Spiritual Apprenticeship Program – Advance your spiritual path and develop inner awareness, intuitive and mediumship abilities through easy, effective methods in a one-one-one learning environment. Person program available for 3- and 6-month terms. Pamela Nine, PhD, Nine Wellness Centre. Info: 865-531-9086, PamelaNine@msn. com, PamelaNine.com.
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saturday Intuitive Readings with Theresa Richardson at Rhama Center – Come and explore your options and opportunities for growth and enlightenment. Readings address work, relationships, life purpose and how to align with your most positive future. Questions welcome. Call for appointments. Info: 865-705-2525 or TheresaRichardson.com.
weekly Intuitive Counseling Sessions with Pamela Nine, PhD – Answers about life lessons, events,
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Trudy Moore, LAc 1310 Luttrell St. • Knoxville, TN 865-525-1665 KnoxvilleAcupuncture.com By appointment only Trudy Moore relocated here in 2003 from SC, where she was in private practice and at MUSC-Charleston (then one of few LAc’s at a Western medical school in the country). Her ongoing post-grad training includes cancer care and Tibetan medicine.
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Charles West, LMT, TFH, MAT 318 Erin Dr. #5 • Knoxville, TN 37919 865-694-3144 MassageWorksTN.com Move better, feel better, live better. Bodywork for pain and stress relief since 1994. A c u p r e s s u r e , To u c h f o r Health® kinesiology, structural alignment, stress relief, relaxation, chair massage, cupping, Tai chi. Classes for LMTs, everyone.
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Cynthia J. Taylor, BGS, LMT Reiki Master Teacher 155 Sherway Rd. Ste. 2 • Knoxville, TN 37922 865-816-7056 NovaMassageCT@gmail.com Nova-Healing.com A private practice specializing in pre- and perinatal massage. Certified pregnancy massage therapist, currently obtaining a massage doula certification. Craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, neuromuscular, medical massage, trigger point therapy. See website for specials, online booking.
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Amanda Keller & Amber Keirn 4928 Homberg Dr. Ste. A1 Knoxville, TN 37919 865-474-1340 Info@HempMonkeysOnline.com Hemp Monkeys is an eclectic and unique shop that specializes in hemp and bamboo clothing, hemp oil soaps, lotions, handmade jewelry, Himalayan salt lamps, and Indonesian and Balinese décor and jewelry. See ad, page 9.
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Licensed marriage/family therapist, certified clinical hypnotherapist, EMDR Level 2 practitioner, Kundalini yoga/meditation practitioner, Reiki 2 practitioner, 15 years in bodywork. Free workshops: trauma/emotional release, anger management, marriage/family dynamics, addiction and family dynamics, autism/Aspergers. See ad, page 19.
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Linda Lea, Natural Health Professional, RCR, CCA, HTSM 620 N. Campbell Station Rd. #23 Farragut, TN 37934 865-966-1509 LeasNHS.com Lea’s Natural Health Solutions offers e m o t i o n a l empowerment and spiritual maturity processes including The Emotion Code, designed to eliminate hidden emotional baggage and selfsabotaging beliefs and behaviors that prevent you from giving and receiving love freely. See ad, page 11.
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Genesis Analgesia Center now featuring acupuncture, hypnotherapy, Chinese medicine, reflexology, yoga, tai chi and Reiki. Massage therapy and more coming September 2013. All available in a relaxed, private medical environment. Introductory specials on reflexology $45. See ad, page 15.
Intuitive Counseling NINE WELLNESS CENTRE
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READINGS AND REIKI
Theresa Richardson Rhama Center 9237 Middlebrook Pk. • Knoxville, TN 37931 865-705-2525 Info@TheresaRichardson.com TheresaRichardson.com Theresa is an intuitive healer/ teacher whose services include readings, Reiki sessions and a variety of classes. Her intention is to facilitate transformation and alignment with the soul’s wisdom. In-person, phone or long-distance healing sessions available.
Massage Therapy MASSAGE ENVY
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PERSONAL TRAINER GENESIS ANALGESIA CENTER 1408 Currier Ln. • Knoxville, TN 856-692-4141 GenesisAnalgesia.com
Personal training sessions in a relaxed, private medical environment. Each program is designed for the individual based on their personal goals. Programs include weight loss, dealing with chronic pain issues, strengthening or increasing flexibility. See ad, page 15.
REIKI NLIGHTN BUG LLC
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Spiritual Centers THE CENTER FOR PEACE 880 Graves-Delozier Rd. Seymour, TN 37865 865-428-3070 CenterForPeace.us
Aholistic spiritual center applying ancient wisdom traditions such a s c e r e m o n y, dance, shamanic practice, sweat lodges, meditation, chanting and prayer in the modern world. See ad, page 19.
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