BioBlog: Basic Treatment Guidelines: a.k.a. Natural Laws to Live By
December 27, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Marion Institute’s Grow Education program engages Wareham Elementary Students
November 27, 2023
Grow Farm-to-School connects students and schools to agricultural education and locally grown, nutritious food. Under the program, the schools build raised-bed agricultural gardens, which are used for instruction on science, food, nutrition, the environment and more.
November 2023 MI Newsletter
November 22, 2023
This is the season of giving thanks and the Marion Institute reminds us that eating local is not just something to do in the summer – we can all year long! This month's newsletter is full of ways to help you do just that this holiday season. Plus we announce the dates for our third annual 21-Day Reset coming to your inboxes in the new year.
‘Half of our shelves are empty’: Hunger is rising on the South Coast, but pandemic emergency funds for food pantries are gone
November 22, 2023
About 66,000 people in Bristol County are turning to a food pantry for help per month, an increase of 23% from a year ago
What’s Growing On? November 2023 News from Grow Education
November 20, 2023
Happy fall! Our Grow Education farm-to-school program has expanded to new school districts, our team is growing, and we continue to build meaningful partnerships across the Southcoast to connect students and teachers to our food system.
Community Youth Empowerment Group held its fourth annual Trunk-or-Treat event Oct. 28.
October 31, 2023
It was a bright and beautiful Saturday when the Community Youth Empowerment Group held its fourth annual Trunk-or-Treat event Oct. 28. According to Events Coordinator Darien Fernandez, the organization began holding the event following the Covid pandemic when kids were still unable to go door-to-door.
BioBlog: Our Children Need Us More Than Ever in 2023 America
October 30, 2023
Children need us. This goes without saying. However, they need us more than ever in 2023 America. According to multiple major media sources and the Centers for Disease Control, rates of obesity, depression, and suicidal thoughts continue to rise in children. The most tragic example of this, which can no longer be denied, is emergency room visits by families with children expressing suicidality.