The role of Limiting Beliefs and Empowering Beliefs 5 – Reprogramming our thinking part 2

“You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood.  But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.”  Tiny Buddha.com Laying down new neural pathways is a key to reprogramming our brains (see previous post VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 4). Read more…

The world Economy – are we really doing better?  Measurement is everything!

I was reading an overview of a U.S. governmental financial report the other day and it quite categorically said that the country’s economy is doing well!  I almost fell off my chair in aghast disbelief of what I was reading!  So, I pondered what the report was saying and probed Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 4 – Changing the way we farm and eat to get to Sustainable Agriculture (SA)   

An obvious, yet poignant question I used to ask my students to get them thinking – “What does the term Sustainable Agriculture imply about modern industrial agriculture?”  I am always amazed how so many people talk about sustainability but still practice unsustainability as something that is commonplace and acceptable.  As Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 2 – a reality check on food production energetics.

In the previous post I talked about the 10% rule of energetics within the food chain. The potentially most efficient way to eat is to consume the vegetables directly so that we get 10% of the vegetables energy.  Eating an animal that ate the vegetable only gives us 1% of Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 1 – a reality check on the food system.

“The primary mode of cognition that the practitioners of science have used during the past century – Analytic, Linear, Reductionist, Deterministic, Mechanical – has begun to reach the limits of its assumptions.  For this particular mode of cognition and the system to which that mode has given rise, can only Read more…