Christopher Silva, Author at Marion Institute

Marion Institute receives $20,000 in state grants

February 14, 2024
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The Marion Institute was granted $20,000 in state funding for its South Coast Food Policy Council initiative, a program that brings together food pantries, farms, foundations, and social service agencies to promote food security.

BioBlog: Keep the Long View and Maintain Health for Life

January 25, 2024
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The hardest part to fathom is that losing weight isn’t about a pill you’re not taking or the diet you couldn't follow through with. Your body’s composition is a reflection of your values and more generally your identity. If you want to lose weight for long periods of time, you have to become a different person.

January 2024 MI Newsletter

January 24, 2024
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It's a new year - Welcome 2024! This month's newsletter is packed with upcoming events including our special celebration: Light Your Inner Fire - Fundamental Principles of the Wim Hof Method®, with a cold plunge into Onset Bay. We also launched a new meditation course through our BioMed Programs: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and are so excited to offer this fantastic tool to our community! There's also a great Grow Education update featuring this year's winter presentations and a wonderful video all about pollination and beekeeping. Enjoy!

What’s Growing On? January 2024 News from Grow Education

January 18, 2024
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Winter presentations have been a part of Grow Education's farm to School program for many years now, bringing local farmers into the classroom to discuss food production, environmental stewardship, and science.

BioBlog: Basic Treatment Guidelines: a.k.a. Natural Laws to Live By

December 27, 2023
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Health is much more than the absence of disease. It is a goal that needs daily effort to achieve. The body is a remarkable regulatory machine that will correct imbalances and pathologies provided it has the raw materials and time.

December 2023 MI Newsletter

December 19, 2023
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As we prepare to bid adieu to 2023, this month's newsletter focuses on some exciting events coming up in the new year. The 21-Day Reset is back for 2024 with updated content ready to inspire healthy choices for us all. Then there's a new event for 2024 - Wim Hof Method Fundamentals: Light Your Inner Fire - with a cold plunge finish in beautiful Onset Bay! We also highlight a new position at the MI - the Frogfoot Farm Manager.

The Great Relearning: Three brothers’ quest for meaning in a living cosmos

December 7, 2023
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WHO ARE WE? WHERE HAVE WE COME FROM? WHERE MIGHT WE BE GOING? We want to discover and learn anew what we’ve lost, inviting dialogue with inspired women and men who have devoted their lives to understanding the spiritual basis of all life, to recovering lost histories and testimonies, rituals and practices that can help restore us to wholeness and to a more profound understanding of the meaning of life.

Sippican Third-Graders Plant Garlic and Clover Through First Grow Education Farm-to-School Program

December 5, 2023
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This is the first year that Grow Education Farm-to-School program has come to Sippican School. Earlier this year, Sippican Elementary School’s third-grade students were visited by special guest Nate Sander of the Marion Institute for an outdoor lesson about general gardening practices.

BioBlog: 5G – The Inconvenient Truths About Wireless Technology: An Interview With Cece Doucette

November 27, 2023
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Cecelia (Cece) Doucette spent eight years fundraising to bring wireless technology into her schools. Then she learned it was harmful, investigated the non-industry funded science, and helped her children’s schools in the Ashland, Massachusetts School District become the first in the nation to take precautionary measures with wireless technology in 2015.

Marion Institute says SouthCoast food insecurity is rising. Here’s what they’re doing.

November 27, 2023
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The Marion Institute's Southcoast Food Policy Council is ringing the alarm to raise awareness that, despite things being relatively back to normal, food insecurity in the region never went anywhere.