serious shit
There are so many important issues clamoring for my attention and I only have so much bandwidth… but one issue I just can’t ignore is the genetically modified food battle. It’s so fundamental.
GMO foods in the US are not labeled because lobbyists pay to ensure they’re not. Why? Because a GMO label is a consumer’s equivalent of a skull and crossbones. And for good reason. (Just skim this interview with the heroic Dr. Árpád Pusztai, a whistleblower whose astounding study on the damaging effects of GMO potatoes caused a citizen uproar leading to an all-out BAN of genetically modified foods in Europe!)
To sum up Dr. Pusztai’s scientific findings: GMO foods weaken your immune system and will eventually weaken the human genome.
Hopefully, you belong to a CSA or get your veggies from an organic farmer’s market. But if you shop at Whole Foods – even occasionally – thinking they don’t sell this crap because of their (hypocritical) Non-GMO project, think again. Whole Foods just caved under Monsanto’s pressure and will now carry GMO foods beginning with Roundup Ready alfalfa sprouts and spreading from there. Oh, and these GMO foods won’t be labeled.
No matter where you shop, make some noise. Please take a sec to sign and pass along these two petitions asking food retailers to label GMO foods:
Tell the top 6 Food Retailers to label GMOs & factory farm products
emmy lee and mia
See here for the the sweetest story about a young photographer and her orphaned fawn. (That little deerling is growing up fast!)
how to plant a forest
This’ll lift your spirits…
Plant a forest in 2012 from Wildlife Alliance on Vimeo.
what kind of bird are you?
He’s back! Wes Anderson… national treasure.
mix(ed bag)
Just some songs I been listenin’ to in no order of preference…..Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lana Del Ray, David Lynch w/ Karen O, UNKLE w/ Katrina Ford, Secret Sisters w/ Jack White on geetar…
Paradisco by planned_obsolescence
Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans by pillowjungle
David Lynch – Pinky’s Dream (feat. Karen O) by Pretty Much Amazing
UNKLE – Caged Bird (feat Katrina Ford) by davish34
Secret Sisters feat Jack White: Big River (Johnny Cash cover) by TheMusicFile
winter in yosemite
This was my meditation today. I am chill and refreshed.
Winter in Yosemite National Park from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.
yosemite
A couple of pics from our new year’s trip to Yosemite last weekend. ‘Twas my first trip and long overdue. Such an awe-inspiring corner of the world. Can’t wait to go back after it snows! Some gorgeous pics can be found in Peter’s Yosemite gallery.
no fear
For a new year’s reminder that anything is possible, watch this bit on 60 minutes where mountain climber Alex Honnold scales the sheer rock walls of Yosemite (1000′s of feet above the valley floor) with out ropes, only a bag of chalk and some good sneakers. (And how cute is he with those enormous, luminous eyes? He looks like a magical forest creature. The lower half of his body should have furry haunches and mountain goat legs.)
notes for steve
Peter’s photo was chosen by the editors of National Geographic as a favorite among submissions for their annual photo contest! Such an iconic image, huh? The photo is part of a series he shot called A Growing Memorial for his new photoblog In Startup Land (a photographic journal of Silicon Valley.) The series captures a viral Post-It memorial at the Apple Store a few blocks from Steve Jobs’ home in Palo Alto.
