Did you know that your gut might be your most important organ for overall health? In recent research, intestinal microbiome health has been linked to genetic expression, immune system functionality, weight gain and loss, mental health, memory, and risk factors for chronic disease! Your gut – or the microbiome – is ...
What if the narrative of organic and conventional food you are being told isn’t the truth? What if its been tampered with, played with, false hypotheses thrust into our everyday media? That’s exactly what has happened. In a recently released report, Spinning Food, by Friends of the Earth, an independent, grassroots ...
When we think of “organic”, we think of all natural, non-toxic, safe food and products. However, many organic products contain harmful synthetic chemicals. For example, when a product has a “made with organic” USDA label, the requirement is that only 70% of ingredients are organic. The other 30% can be dangerous ...
As an actor I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away. ...
The corporations that sell the synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural tools currently used are the ones that tell us that genetic engineering is the only way our increasing population will be fed. These corporations have created, manufactured, and sold their harmful products and methods to farmers, and ...
Because of its detoxifying properties, neem leaves are ideal for treating various skin disorders, wrinkles, and hair dandruff. Neem is also extremely beneficial as the principal ingredient for soaps and shampoos.
Neem oil is beneficial for our skin because of it's various medicinal properties. Let us show you how to use this product and have great skin.
The deforestation problem and how we can help it, in one simple image.
People in Senegal know that the medicine for malaria offered by the region's pharmaceutical organizations is not working. Cheik Bamba, a small business owner in the town Kaolock, discovered the benefits and uses of neem leaves and has since controlled the spread of malaria in what is known locally as the mosquito ...
Looking over your shoulder to check for dandruff could be quite embarrassing. Dandruff is a common scalp condition which is chronic but not contagious (unless is caused by infection). It is usually accompanied by itching and burning sensation. Watch the video and try this Neem home remedy!
This video shows us how much food is wasted in the United States. The real problem in farms is that 40% of food produced goes directly to the dump because it is not the right color or size.
One of the greatest threats to global health today, antibiotic resistance causes 700,000 deaths per year because it is so often prescribed as the effective prevention and treatment of an ever increasing range of infections. However, by exposing livestock to these antibiotics, we create this dangerous problem. Allowed ...
One of the more practical and achievable ways to cleanse our environment and ensure an equitable future is to lock up, or sequester, more carbon from the atmosphere through the simple process of planting more trees worldwide. Neem has a high rate of photosynthesis and liberates more oxygen than many other tree ...
Organic products provide a sustainable solution in feeding an ever increasing population and therefore have drastically increased in popularity over the last few years. The produce has gone mainstream; increasingly popular for consumers while being highly profitable for growers and producers.
A video on the origins of the neem tree, its beneficial properties, various uses, and why it is so popular for medicinal treatments and remedies.
The neem tree (Azadirachta Indica) is an evergreen in the Meliaceae (mahogany) family, celebrated for its remarkable healing properties as far back as 5,000BCE by the Harappa and Mohenjo civilizations. Fast-forward to the present day and neem is becoming renowned for its contributions to sustainable agriculture and ...
An explanation of consequences if businesses do not shift to more sustainable conduct and the importance of sustainable practices in reducing the amount of worldwide carbon emissions.
With mankind’s pervasive use of synthetic and toxic pesticides in agriculture, organic products are urgently needed for their positive environmental impact. Neem is becoming more relevant in the agricultural space because it contains over two hundred biologically active compounds that are effective in crop ...
A synthetic pesticide is a poisonous chemical or mixture that is used to prevent, repel, or kill insects, weeds and fungi. While these synthetic pesticides can aid farmers in preventing the crop losses that can be caused by pests, the negative effects they have on human health and the environment are catastrophic.
One of the greatest threats to global health today, antibiotic resistance causes 700,000 deaths per year by comprising the effective prevention and treatment of an ever increasing range of infections. Allowed to continue unabated, this dangerous phenomenon is expected to cause 50 million deaths per year by 2050 and ...
As synthetic pesticides end up virtually everywhere due to environmental contamination, their pervasive use in agriculture has led to a variety of health problems.
In this infographic, we see the effect that neem biopesticides have on the environment. One of neem’s main active ingredients, azadirachtin, acts as a natural growth regulator and feeding deterrent to over 500 species of insects.
An explanation of soil health in the Dakota Research Farms and how diversity in planting gives farmers the benefits and costs to stay productive .
Today, 14% of all humans who have ever existed are currently alive. It took 1800 years for the world’s population to reach one billion. Fast-forward 200 years and the human race had increased to 6 billion, and an additional 12 years for our last billion. Though global fertility rates are falling, a 2014 study by ...
We currently use 1.6x the earth's available resources. Unless moves are made to explore sustainability, living on our planet may mean having to make do with less. Farmland availability is shrinking, much of it to make way for expanding urban populations. Crop yields are no longer expanding and the ‘Green Revolution’ ...
Sustaining the needs of a global population that has tripled in the last century alone is one of the major challenges of modern man. The global population has increased by 45% to 7 billion since the dawn of the new millennium, and is expected to hit at least 9.7 billion by 2050. By 2100, the human population will have ...
How do we manage our business, should we do some things differently.
