Atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the United States, has been cleared for continued use after a federal review concluded that it does not pose an extinction-level threat to protected wildlife. The decision effectively supports continued application of the chemical on corn, sorghum, sugar cane, and other crops. Farmers apply an average […]

Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, has taken a historic step by banning public advertising for fossil fuel products and meat. The law applies to city-owned spaces, including buses, trams, metro stations, benches, shelters, and billboards. Ads for airlines, cruises, faraway vacations, gas-powered cars, beef, chicken, pork, fish, and fast-food meat products are now restricted

A vast living infrastructure lies hidden beneath forests, grasslands, farms, and wild landscapes. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi attach to plant roots and send threadlike filaments through the soil, helping plants receive nutrients and water while moving carbon underground. These networks are increasingly being recognized as one of the planet’s great biological systems. New research in Europe

The climate crisis is no longer only threatening food production through droughts, floods, heat, and crop failures. It is also changing the nutritional quality of the food that does grow. Rising carbon dioxide levels can increase carbohydrate content in plants while lowering essential minerals and protein. The result is a quieter danger: people may eat

Ultra processed food has become one of the most contested issues in American health policy. What once sounded like a specialist term from nutrition research is now central to debates over school lunches, food stamps, warning labels, children’s advertising, grocery packaging, and the political future of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Federal regulators are

By Janet Huntsman Originally, I was not planning on writing a tribute to Michio, but I now felt it was time to fulfill a request that he had asked of me many years ago. At that time, I had started to tell him of an experience I had which related to him, but I didn’t

By Marshall Ballou Years ago, when I was working at the Kushi Institute in administration, I had an interesting experience with Michio. I have always had a telepathic relationship with him. While participating in the Spiritual Seminars I would send him a cup of tea while he was lecturing—and felt other personal messages from him.

By Ginat Rice Michio once gave a cooking class in Level IV. He brought me up to be his assistant. He brought the water to a boil and added the udon. Then he stood there and watched it boil. That was it. That was the lesson. He didn’t stir, he didn’t tap his foot, he

By Carolyn Goldwasser In 1971, when I was a barefoot hippy, I went to live on Goat Island, in Puget Sound, near La Conner; it was summer, I had been studying Zen Macrobiotics and traveling, talking with people and communing with Nature. Wes had been camping on Goat Island for a while, with his three-year-old son Randy and their big dog, Snoopy, living mainly on brown rice. “Simplicity is Bliss” was the slogan he had written on the cement wall of

By John Stevens I first met Michio and Aveline in 1988 when I was invited to live in their home in Brookline. I was recommended to them by Aveline’s niece, Mariko, who I had met at Becket while I was in the work-study program there. I got to Becket by answering an ad in the East