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'The Great Healing' special promotion extended through June in 'Natural Grocers'!
Visit any of the 160 Natural Grocer’s by Vitamin Cottage supermarkets and discover my book at 30% off. Sweet!
Of the 5 books Natural Grocer’s features in its June Health Hotline magazine, The Great Healing was again awarded the top spot. The Health Hotline print edition is available in all stores throughout the month, and is emailed to their 990,000 customer list.
Thank you Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage for extending your special promotion of The Great Healing through June.
Check out my guest interview on Scott Amyx's podcast!
My publicist informed me that Scott Amyx typically posts his Climate Change With Scott Amyx podcasts 1 to 2 months after taping. He posted my interview one week after taping. Thank you Scott for inviting me on your podcast.
Watch or listen to the interview here.
just published on Buzzfeed
My op-ed just published on BuzzFeed. Take a look and discover the two reasons here.
Joe Schneiderman - book reader
I originated the Home Entertainment label Woodhaven Entertainment and ran it for 7 years. Joe Schneiderman was a stalwart on our home office sales team.
In addition to a wry sense of humor, he was a caring and considerate employee who brightened everyone's day.
He just sent me this photo. Joe’s staying in great shape having just returned from a long walk.
Look what he’s planning on reading.
Appreciate your interest Joe!
Stephen Erickson interviewed on Scott Amyx's podcast Friday May 8th
I was Scott Amyx’s guest on his Climate Change With Scott Amyx podcast which taped Friday, May 8th. He reaches a global audience. I will let you know when this episode airs. A great experience. Thank you Scott!
@ScottSAmyx
'Natural Grocers' extends 'The Great Healing' special promotion through May!
Thank you Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage for extending your April special promotion of The Great Healing through May. Visit any of the 160 Natural Grocers supermarkets and discover my book at 30% off! Sweet.
'Psychology Today' publishes my new interview and promotes it to "an essential topic."
Thank you Psychology Today magazine for publishing my interview and promoting it to "an essential topic." Not a bad article introduction either. Thank you Marc Bekoff.
Give it a read and help us save the world!
Just Published on Medium.com
Compassion for All Animals During and After the Coronavirus Pandemic is Essential for Human Survival
by Stephen Erickson
Really pleased with this new op-ed! A six minute read awaits you here.
A powerful image from PETA.
By eating less meat and diary you are doing the planet a big favor. Our climate crisis is far more severe than the COVUD-19 pandemic. COVID-19 will kill over 100,000 of us but we will survive it. Global warming threatens our extinction later this century.
Just Published on Medium.com
On Medium, please 'Clap' on this story if you find it an engaging and informative read!
New interview
Thank you Rhett Morgan and Kirkus Reviews. To read the interview click on the image above or here.
Just Published on Medium.com. It's a good read. Promise.
…Link to story… Please give me a ‘clap’ on Medium and share it if you find this essay insightful and interesting.
Natural Grocers Promotes 'The Great Healing' in #1 Spot!
Of the 5 books Natural Grocer’s by Vitamin Cottage featured and promoted in its April Health Hotline magazine, The Great Healing was given the top spot. The Health Hotline print edition is available in all stores throughout the month, and is emailed to their 990,000 customer list. Very pleased with their special promotion!
A BIG IMPORTANT FAVOR I’m asking of you.
When you next shop at a Natural Grocers supermarket or if you have one nearby, please send me a photo of The Great Healing book on display. Even better if you add a selfie of you holding the book beside where it is displayed. It may be at checkout or in the book/magazine aisle.
Let me know the city you are in, and ask an employee what that store number is.
Your photo(s) will help spread awareness and lift our sales performance throughout this April special promotion!
Thank you!!!
Source humanely raised pastured animals, free range chicken, grass-fed grass-finished beef, organic produce, the healthiest consumer products, and more on these sites.
Excerpted and adapted from The Great Healing - Five Compassions That Can Save Our World.
Source healthy, sustainably and humanely raised meat and dairy products from small local family farms, regenerative farmers and other suppliers. Here are links to resources that will help you locate healthy organic produce, as well as letting you compare products in your supermarket.
localharvest.org can help you source organic and sustainably grown foods including farmers’ markets and family farms in your area.
A Greener World’s search tool enables you to find stores in your area that sell grass-fed high-welfare-managed meat, dairy, and other products.
Eat Wild has a “state-by-state plus Canada” directory to help you locate 100% grass-fed animals, as well as eggs and dairy products from animals fed natural diets.
The Cornucopia Institute’s homepage has a Scorecards tab which provides health scorecards on cereals, dairy, eggs, grains, pet foods and a variety of products and brands: cornucopia.org
The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) Food Scores site rates over 80,000 foods found on supermarket shelves based on 3 criteria: nutritional value, concerns about ingredients and contaminants, and the degree and type of processing. There is also a home furnishings guide and a tap water database. A free phone app enables you to scan bar codes while shopping to check a product’s rating and compare it with dozens of similar products. Ewg.org/foodscores
The Center For Food Safety has a free phone app, the True Food Shoppers Guide, that lets you immediately identify whether or not a food product contains GMO (also referred to as GE, “genetically engineered”) ingredients. The site also has a guide to avoiding GMO food, and information on the dangers of GMO / GE foods.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ (ASPCA) Meat, Eggs and Dairy Label Guide lists certification labels and defines what they mean.
Here are other groups and organizations to help you identify and locate healthy delicious food. They are great sources of information as well:
This is the USDA’s National Farmers’ Markets Directory. A national listing lets you easily find the farmers’ markets closest to you. Once you locate a market, it provides additional information on market hours and what products are typically available there.
This Natural Grocers webpage clarifies what product standards you should be looking for when purchasing body care, dairy, dietary supplements, meat, grocery, and pet products.
The Organic Authority website is a source for recipes, nutrition and wellness advice.
The Happy Cow site lets you find nearby restaurants. While the box says “Vegan restaurants nearby,” the search includes vegan and vegetarian restaurants along with restaurants that offer veg-options. Also included are juice bars, health stores, ice cream shops, food trucks, etc. The site has recipes as well.
Seafood Watch has a free phone app that provides up-to-date recommendations on sustainable seafood as well as local restaurants serving ocean-friendly seafood.
The Eat Well Guide site has a Guides navigation tab that is handy when traveling. Select a city and discover hand-picked restaurants, farms, and markets presenting local, sustainable, delicious food.
The Good Guide rates 75,000 different foods and products based on whether they are safe, ethical, or healthy. Click on the Categories Index at the bottom of the home page and 45 product categories will appear. The site also has a free phone app that lets you scan the bar code of items while shopping to check their rating.
Read product labels carefully as manufacturers often make them deliberately misleading. The Food Label Guide is a quick easy reference to find out what a food label means.
Explore delicious recipes and balanced meals.
There is so much information, so many delicious recipes available online to enable a shift to a better diet balance — lean meat along with more vegetables and fruits, seeds, nuts, and whole grains. Food is an adventure, and we have access to more varieties of it, more spices, more ways of preparing and cooking food than ever.
Here are some sites I can suggest with a mind-expanding array of delicious vegetarian and plant-based recipes. There are many more.
ChooseVeg.com is a helpful website with recipes, nutritional information, a meal planner, and one-on-one support.
Meatless Monday Recipes
Chowhound 13 Vegetarian Blogs to Inspire Healthy Eating All Year Long
The Kitchn The 5 Vegetarian Blogs I Read Every Day
Cookie + Kate Fresh vegetarian recipes
Organic Authority (primarily plant-based recipes, a few fish dishes)
New York Times Cooking: 27 Vegetarian Dishes
Forks Over Knives – All Recipes
Cooking Light Our Best Show-Stopping Vegetarian Recipes
For meat eaters, here are some sites to explore with healthy recipes, which can include humanely raised, pastured or free range, and grass-fed grass-finished meat.
'Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage' promotes 'The Great Healing' in all 160 of its supermarkets!
ANNOUNCING the Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage special promotion of The Great Healing in all 160 of its supermarkets throughout the month of April!
We applaud Natural Grocers and natural food retailers efforts to move the coronavirus conversation to good nutrition, healthy safe food from known supply chains, and nutrition counseling to keep us in optimal health and optimize our immune systems at this critically important time.
Natural Grocers’ net sales revenue exceeded $900 million in 2019. Let’s see if we can help increase that in 2020!
'COMPASSION FOR SELF 2020 - PART 3' just published on MEDIUM & THRIVEGLOBAL.COM
I am adapting and serializing Chapter 2, Compassion For Self, from The Great Healing on both Medium and ThriveGlobal platforms. Now you can read this 11 part series, progressing from one weekly post to the next.
It’s a good read. Promise.
“I would love to have your voice on Thrive’s media platform.” . — Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global
Thank you for the invite, Arianna.
now ON SHELves at the Boulder Book Store, in Boulder, Colorado!
Boulder Book Store is one of the top tier independent bookstores in America. The Great Healing is displayed face-out and spine-out in the New-Paperback Non-Fiction Section.
Photo @Andy Akenson Mar. 2019
Photo @Alexander Atkinson Dec. 2019