Bug-out Bag: Fire
One of the essential components of survival is fire. Fire is needed for light, warmth, cooking food, for boiling and purifying water, among many other...
How to Make a Survival Water Filter
Is it safe to drink this water? I ask myself that question often and most of the time the answer is no. There often is...
Survival Foods: Plants – cattail, conifers, grasses and acorns
Ever wondered what kinds of survival foods you could eat if you were caught in a survival situation? When I first came to Washington state...
Reality Check: Is Monsanto America’s Best Example of Crony Capitalism?
It is a name that Americans are hearing more and more, Monsanto. An agriculture company that has become connected to the term GMO’s. So what...
FDA Study: Some Imported Spices Contaminated With Salmonella
Donna Pierce was a 69-year-old grandmother who loved to laugh and thought that laughter would add years to her life.Unfortunately, Pierce was one of 87...
Trade Group, Biotech Giants Spending Big Bucks to Stop GE Labeling in WA
The nation’s largest food makers’ trade group, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), is donating big money to oppose I-522, but on whose behalf?
73 farmers seek protection from Monsanto
A group of 73 American organic and conventional family farmers, seed businesses and public advocacy groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case...
U.S. EPA sets first ever curbs on power plant pollution
The Obama administration on Friday announced regulations setting strict limits on the amount of carbon pollution that can be generated by any new U.S. power...
Syrian civil war has reached stalemate, govt may call for ceasefire – Deputy PM
Syria’s deputy prime minister said on Thursday that neither side is strong enough to win the country’s civil war. Qadri Jamil added that Assad’s government...
Oil spill dumps over 5k gallons of crude across flood-drenched Colorado
More than 5,250 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a river in Colorado, contaminating much of the same region that was ravaged days earlier...
Will The GMO-Breast Cancer Link Be Pink-Washed Away?
With Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) less than two weeks away, the latest bombshell GMO/Roundup study produced by a French research team, and presently making...
5 foods with superpowers
Super foods that will change your life Here we show you five foods that have genuine superpowers. Find out what these five super foods are...
The top 10 worst foods to eat
10 foods with the worst reputations True, we are surrounded by junk foods, packed with sugar, fat and salt and generally processed to the extreme...
Why men should love chocolate more
Usually it’s women we hear linked, stereotypically, with chocolate, but new research focuses on the sweet stuff’s health benefits for men. Risa N. Schulman discusses...
Fruits & veggies fight bladder cancer
To reduce their risk of bladder cancer, women should eat more fruits and veggies. Men, however, can stick to chips. OK, not really. But new research...
FDA Proposes Limit for Arsenic in Apple Juice
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed a limit for arsenic in apple juice, two years after testing by Dr. Oz and Consumer...