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By day I’m chairman and CEO of the largest independent publisher left in America. By night I’m simply M.O.M. (which stands for Mean Old Mom). I’m a writer, cook, organic enthusiast, romance novel lover, and country music fan who does yoga.
Tag Archives: politics
Occupy My Heart
by guest blogger Joan Gussow. “It isn’t working.” That’s the message. Bubbling up through the torrents of words that seek to “explain” the Occupy phenomenon is a message that has moved my 83-year-old heart: “It just isn’t working.”
Posted in Environment, Organic Issues
Tagged activism, environment, interview, life, politics
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Six Ways To Help
End Big Farm Handouts
Want to eat more healthfully? Tell your representative in Congress to end direct payments to factory-farm operators. Here’s how…
The True Cost of Doubt and Denial
The recent President’s Cancer Panel report, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,” has put the official government seal on something many of us have recognized for quite some time: Chemicals are very likely to cause cancer. For …
The President’s Cancer Panel Report Suggests We Smarten Up!
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a the Dirt Diva) Earlier this month the President’s Cancer Panel submitted its report, entitled Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, which describes the effects of environmental exposures on cancer risk. The …
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Annie Spiegelman, cancer, environment, guest blogger, herbicide, organic gardening, politics
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Does Climate Change Exist, and Does It Even Matter?
It amazes me, really, how many different views there can be on any one subject. Whether it’s religion, the best-tasting tomato variety, or the right way to cook a chicken, disagreement is de rigueur. The urge to find disagreements about …
Posted in Environment
Tagged chemical agriculture, climate change, global warming, global warming solutions, Nature, organic, politics
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Choose Life
There is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while but wasn’t ready to blog about until I read, on The New York Times online, about the guy who murdered an abortion doctor and claimed in his defense that …
Posted in Spirituality
Tagged abortion, choice, Kids, life, politics, religion, women, Women's Rights
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Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, and the State of Change
On Wednesday, I watched two big speeches. On Huffingtonpost.com—along with about 800,000 other people (you could see the number of people watching it change in real time)—I saw a blurry Steve Jobs unveil Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, thanks to …
Posted in Organic Issues
Tagged apple, change, electronics, ipad, Obama, politics, women in business, Women's Rights
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