• Take Charge of Your Health with JP!

    Take Charge of Your Health with JP!

    John Pierre, personal trainer and wellness coach, has dedicated the last three decades of his life to continuously learning how to best serve people in transforming their health through a combination of exercise routines, plant-based nutrition, and self love. In the courses and programs below, JP shares with you the same exercise techniques and strategies…

  • Family Fitness

    Family Fitness

    Think about how inactive our children are today compared to when we were kids. Remember when our parents had to call us in several times because we were busy outside playing tag, hopscotch or baseball? Today, kids are called away from their computer or the sofa in just the next room. This inactive lifestyle is…

  • Holiday Dinner Foul Play

    Holiday Dinner Foul Play

    It is the time of year that I am unfortunately reminded of two articles. The first is titled There’s a grim reality behind your Thanksgiving turkey (Los Angeles Times Editorial Board) and the second article is titled Torture and Terror: Why Thanksgiving Is Tough For Turkeys (Katie Rucke). Judging from the excessive volume of turkey…

  • Planet-Based Health

    Planet-Based Health

    How will this action affect my health? Let’s consider the ways our everyday actions impact our current state of health and our future life experience… With Our Daily Decisions We Influence Our Future Life Health can be an elusive goal for many people on earth. And the impact of poor health couldn’t be more critical…

  • When You Throw Something Away, Where is Away?

    When You Throw Something Away, Where is Away?

  • How Cruises Affect the Environment

    How Cruises Affect the Environment

    UPDATE: This article was written during the outbreak of Coronavirus and the ensuing pandemic. And while the cruise industry, and travel industry in general, will suffer heavily from the impacts of Coronavirus, the information below is nevertheless prevalent in the cruise industry. At the current time, even in the midst of a pandemic, dozens of…

  • Restaurant and Bakery Sustainability

    Restaurant and Bakery Sustainability

    Sustainability is very trendy today.  This is why you see such a rise in vegan options, farm-to-table, zero-waste, reusables, supporting local, etc.  More than ever, I’m seeing people encourage repeating outfits, promote plant-based diets, and demand people bring their own reusable coffee mug.  People want the change, so make it easy for the customer by…

  • PLANET-Based Living

    PLANET-Based Living

    PLANET-Based Living includes actions that might not change the world, but are done because they are the most respectful thing to do. These actions include recycling, using cloth bags when shopping, composting, not using toxic chemicals, eating organically grown food and using recycled and non-disposable products. PLANET-Based Living involves minimizing our impact on the earth…

  • Hydroponics to Provide Produce and Help Rescued Fish

    Hydroponics to Provide Produce and Help Rescued Fish

    In view of the dangers associated with consuming GMO foods which are laced with the cancer causing chemical glyphosate, many are choosing to grow their own food.Growing your own ensures that you control what goes on your food.  You can avoid chemicals like herbicides and pesticides by growing your own food.  Growing your own veggies…

  • Turtles and Tortoises Need Rescue, Too

    Turtles and Tortoises Need Rescue, Too

    Dogs and Cats Have Many Resources, But Turtles and Tortoises Are In Critical Need Through the years in our work with many types of animals, we’ve discovered that turtles and tortoises are in critical need of rescue.  Unlike domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats who have lots of resources to take good care of…

  • Do Fish Feel?

    Do Fish Feel?

    Most of us make the choice to have farm animals slaughtered so that we can eat them, I choose to believe that the majority of us think farm animals are sentient beings, intelligent feeling beings, more like us than not. We want to believe their sentience is considered during their brief confined lives and that…

  • Planet-Based Travel

    1) Bike or walk whenever possible. Try to telecommute more for work. 2) Carpool or use public transportation whenever available. 3) Avoid or reduce flying and drive to destinations if possible. If you drive, don’t idle the car by avoiding drive thrus and by parking in the shade with the windows down if you are…

  • Composting 101

    Composting 101

    What is compost?  Compost is the world’s richest soil and is typically made in backyards.  Vegetables and plants that are grown in compost have the highest nutritional density of all foods on earth.  The healthiest human bodies come from the healthiest foods and the healthiest foods come from the healthiest soil, otherwise known as compost. …

  • Rain Water Harvesting

    Rain Water Harvesting

    Water is our most precious resource.  About 97 percent of the world’s water is too salty to serve the human and insect species because it is too salty.  This leaves about 3 percent freshwater for man, animals and insects.  Of that 3 percent of freshwater. only 1 percent is available to us because about 2…

  • Documentaries

    Check out WaterBear.com for dozens of FREE environmental and nature-based documentaries. Planet of the Humans Cowspiracy Earthlings Forks Over Knives More Than Honey Racing Extinction What The Health Seaspiracy Trashed Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping Eating Our Way to Extinction The True Cost

  • The Truth About…

    Carbon Footprints: Food Eat foods + ingredients with low carbon footprints. Eliminate foods + ingredients with high carbon footprints. Buy food that is seasonal, local, with minimal packaging and less goods that require refrigeration or freezing. HEALabel – Carbon Footprints of Foods List The Truth About: Bananas Research began in the early 1900s to develop…

  • Books

    For books that we recommend, see if you can borrow or barter, find them second-hand, search or request books from your local library and where appropriate enjoy them digitally using resources like WikiBooks, Audible, PublicBookShelf, etc.! The Vegan Book of Permaculture: Recipes for Healthy Eating and Earthright Living Strong, Savvy, Safe The Homemade Vegan Pantry…

  • Videos

    Home and Garden Presentations About PLANET-Based Living The Story of Stuff Health and Fitness Water Documentaries Plastic Facts

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