Re-Gain

U.S. health care costs are approaching $3 trillion dollars.   These escalating costs are threatening the future well-being of all Americans. U.S. spends per person $8,233 each year for such care. We spend more than two-and-a-half times more than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich European countries like France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Our very health and wellness is in peril. Such expenditures have increased ten times more than just three decades before. Ironically, we are becoming victims of our own successes since people are living longer and new innovations are more expensive.   The changing nature of illness has sparked a renewed interest in the possible role for prevention to help control costs. Ironically, we lead the world in health care research and cancer treatment. What and how can we control costs and at the same time provide care? We must reform health carelessness with renewed form of care using less. Technical adva...

It was 33 years ago I was both the D.C. and national Earth Day Coordinator. Just ten years before the term “recycling” was first introduced and we in the 20 th century began to awaken to the inter-dependence of us and our beloved land, air and water. Can we celebrate our appreciation for this planet by exercising greater care in how we exist?    How can we improve our quality of life with greater resolve?   Let’s show our love for the earth by asking how we can save resources for future generations.   Have we have seriously ignored our planet’s ability to sustain future life or helped it?   Presently we in the U.S. invest twenty percent in health care or $2.5 trillion dollars. Our world is just another extension of our greater health?   It is ironic that hundreds of trillions of dollars in other stuff while investing a tiny fraction in our very earth’s future.   In the last half decade we have double our population seriously depleting our globe...

Conservation for me is awakening.   When I observe the inter-relationships in nature all the elements work together sharing their nutrients since one organism’s by-products becomes transformed as food for another. Conserving is life process of sharing things for other beings.   Over the last half year I have spent much time in the woods around my home just simply enjoying this thanksgiving.    I believe there is a consciousness in conservation.    For me there is an unspoken illuminating awareness of our greater connection or collective consciousness in nature.  "Researchers at the University of British Columbia are concluding that trees are interacting with one another in a symbiotic relationship that helps the trees to survive. Connected by fungi, the underground root systems of plants and trees are transferring carbon and nitrogen back and forth between each other in a network of subtle communication. Similar to the network of neurons and...