Can we eat to starve cancer?

If you don't know TED, this is a great introduction. My advice - watch one TED talk each week and become a better human. In this talk, William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the supply of blood to hungry tumours. The crucial first (and best) step - eating foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at it's own game.

Maybe the most important 20 minutes of your life. If you're really short on time, start at 11:55.

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-05-18&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

Are you ready to get to work?

Our 2010 climate action plan is all about getting to work on local climate solutions.
On 10/10/10, the Global Work Party, we'll start transforming our communities from the ground up. Through local climate action projects, we'll make our leaders wake up and lead on the climate crisis. It's a plan that may well break the logjam and get us moving. Will you join in?

http://www.350.org/

Bill McKibben on Deepwater Horizon

A proper perspective:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/missing-the-real-drama-of_b_606562.html

There's nothing like an idea whose time has come...

Did you see this weekend's Globe and Mail headline?

Welcome to the Kind Gardens blog…

Expect a lot of the different things from this blog – casual observations, honest thought-provoking posts, things that inspire us, things that’ll make us laugh (if we’re ever going to make a difference, a better world is going to have to be fun), updates on our selection of our innovative, sustainable, community-minded products… generally all and anything that we believe is capable of revitalizing our food system and contributing to the overall cultural shift we see occurring in the marketplace.

A grassroots success story

American children don't know what a tomato looks like

Shocking news, Jamie Oliver shows the true disconnect between American children's understanding of the food they eat and where it comes from.