Monday, July 18, 2011

Loving Hut

Loving Hut, a photo by Paul Matthews in Korea on Flickr.

Monday, June 06, 2011

Harvard, BU excel in research payback, study says - The Boston Globe

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

VitaminD-Sunlight-now10763_fig

VitaminD-Sunlight-now10763_fig, a photo by MaynardSClark on Flickr.

Just see how it works

Saturday, April 02, 2011

Anecdote: Charles Wesley, hymnwriter, vegetarian - discouraged from marrying lovely woman

Charles Wesley, the hymnwriter, was vegetarian, you know. The family of the woman he married didn't like him because they felt that marrying their daughter to an itinerant vegetarian hymnwriter was unsuitable for her, not because he wasn't a lovely man, but because he was not likely to count for much over time and couldn't support her in the style to which ladies of her station should wish to become accustomed.

They married anyway by addressing the family's most reasonable objections, and history shows that Charles Wesley became one of the most prolific and deeply revered hymnwriters of the Christian faith.

And he was a vegetarian - one might say, a devout vegetarian.

Anecdote: Charles Wesley, hymnwriter, vegetarian - discouraged from marrying lovely woman

Saturday, March 19, 2011

MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

On March 20th the following bloggers will post a special blog post in honor of Meatout! We hope you enjoy visiting their sites where you'll be sure to find delicious vegan recipes,
vegan tips, and/or thoughtful reflection.
***Please note that some bloggers are also doing GIVEAWAYS!
Thanks so much, bloggers, for supporting Meatout!
If you are a blogger and would like to participate, see the bottom of this page. Thanks!

Mighty Vegan (Julie Kelly)

Lola Lollipop (Lara Matthews) *has already created a special
Meatout comic strip that you can also find on her Facebook page. Check it out!

Vegan Heartland (Matthew) * is also having Meatout giveaways on his blog on 3/20

Don't Fear The Vegan (the DeRobertis family) *Will be raffling off 2 canvas bags
custom designed for Meatout that also say - Don't Fear the Vegan!

Vegan Machine (Kaycee Bassett)

MeloMeals: Vegan for $3.33 a Day (Melody Polakow)

Kiss Me, I'm Vegan (Lindsay Wolf)

Action For Our Planet (Oli Dillon Squire)

Hungry Vegan (Vegiegail)

Hungry Hungry Hippie (Elise)

Daisy Wares (Roni Seabury)

We Animals (Jo Anne McArthur)

Our Hen House (Jasmin Singer & Mariann Sullivan)

Your Time Travels (Liz Longacre)

The Tourist Trail (John Yunker)

Ashland Creek Press (Midge Raymond)

The Vegan Project (Bridget Burns, Jennifer Hanover, and Jessica Grajczyk)

Tracie Cooks (Tracie Boyle)

Veg Reflections (Jessica)

Vegan Gluten Free Karaoke (Rachel Lee)

The Dirty Vegan

The Blooming Platter

Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food (Julie Beyer)

The Vegan Swedes (Emma)

Veg Vine (Ryan Draving)

Vegan Splendor (Carol Kunze)

The Fruit Pursuit (Sabine)

VegKitchen

My Vegan Blog (Breezy Rondilone)

My Big Yellow Book (Breezy Rondilone)

LJ's Veganlicious (Laura Jill)

Vegan Miss (Alexis)

Dinner Peace (Colleen Boucher)

The Veganomaly (Shannon Alberta)

Eat & Talk (Kelly E. Spivey)

Reverence Gardens (Chris)

Vegan Wellness (Charlotte Cressey)

Greenderella (Franzi Schleiter) *not a 100% vegan blog, but promoting Meatout
& more vegan recipes every week.

Amanda Eats (Amanda Rock)

Hungry Vegan Traveler (Amanda)

Vegetarian ( Xiao Kang, Terri Lynn Merritts, and Isobella Merritts)

Serendipitous Vegan (Ashley & Richard)

Vegan Fazool (Dawn Carlock)

Vegan Version (Lee Khatchadourian-Reese)

Vegan Appetite (Tami Noyes)

Bankrupt Vegan (Jen Manriquez)

Bunny Bread Surprise (Emily Keith)

Little Vegan Planet

Tena Burnett

The Opinioness of the World (Megan Kearns)

Empire 118

Beyond Willpower (Alicia Birmingham)

VegBlogger

Gone Vegan (Lindsay Hutton)

JAM Vegan Bakery (Jesse Coyne & Mallori Simko)
*Will have special Meatout activities on 3/20

Viva la Vegan! (Leigh-Chantelle)

Soul Veggie (Mark Sutton)

Jill of Ark (Jill Ennis)
* Will be raffling off a free 30-minute animal communication phone session

Lifeforce (Peter Hamilton)
*see a special Lifeforce Meatout news pdf

And don't forget to check in on the
FARM Blog

If you'd like to participate and be added to our list of Meatout bloggers,
please send an e-mail to Cindi@farmusa.org

Maynard | GoogleChat: Maynard.Clark | Google Profile

Maynard S. Clark, RAC | 617-615-9672 (GoogleVoice) | Skype: MaynardClark

MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

Mighty Vegan (Julie Kelly)

Lola Lollipop (Lara Matthews) *has already created a special
Meatout comic strip that you can also find on her Facebook page. Check it out!

Vegan Heartland (Matthew) * is also having Meatout giveaways on his blog on 3/20

Don't Fear The Vegan (the DeRobertis family) *Will be raffling off 2 canvas bags
custom designed for Meatout that also say - Don't Fear the Vegan!

Vegan Machine (Kaycee Bassett)

MeloMeals: Vegan for $3.33 a Day (Melody Polakow)

Kiss Me, I'm Vegan (Lindsay Wolf)

Action For Our Planet (Oli Dillon Squire)

Hungry Vegan (Vegiegail)

Hungry Hungry Hippie (Elise)

Daisy Wares (Roni Seabury)

We Animals (Jo Anne McArthur)

Our Hen House (Jasmin Singer & Mariann Sullivan)

Your Time Travels (Liz Longacre)

The Tourist Trail (John Yunker)

Ashland Creek Press (Midge Raymond)

The Vegan Project (Bridget Burns, Jennifer Hanover, and Jessica Grajczyk)

Tracie Cooks (Tracie Boyle)

Veg Reflections (Jessica)

Vegan Gluten Free Karaoke (Rachel Lee)

The Dirty Vegan

The Blooming Platter

Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food (Julie Beyer)

The Vegan Swedes (Emma)

Veg Vine (Ryan Draving)

Vegan Splendor (Carol Kunze)

The Fruit Pursuit (Sabine)

VegKitchen

My Vegan Blog (Breezy Rondilone)

My Big Yellow Book (Breezy Rondilone)

LJ's Veganlicious (Laura Jill)

Vegan Miss (Alexis)

Dinner Peace (Colleen Boucher)

The Veganomaly (Shannon Alberta)

Eat & Talk (Kelly E. Spivey)

Reverence Gardens (Chris)

Vegan Wellness (Charlotte Cressey)

Greenderella (Franzi Schleiter) *not a 100% vegan blog, but promoting Meatout
& more vegan recipes every week.

Amanda Eats (Amanda Rock)

Hungry Vegan Traveler (Amanda)

Vegetarian ( Xiao Kang, Terri Lynn Merritts, and Isobella Merritts)

Serendipitous Vegan (Ashley & Richard)

Vegan Fazool (Dawn Carlock)

Vegan Version (Lee Khatchadourian-Reese)

Vegan Appetite (Tami Noyes)

Bankrupt Vegan (Jen Manriquez)

Bunny Bread Surprise (Emily Keith)

Little Vegan Planet

Tena Burnett

The Opinioness of the World (Megan Kearns)

Empire 118

Beyond Willpower (Alicia Birmingham)

VegBlogger

Gone Vegan (Lindsay Hutton)

JAM Vegan Bakery (Jesse Coyne & Mallori Simko)
*Will have special Meatout activities on 3/20

Viva la Vegan! (Leigh-Chantelle)

Soul Veggie (Mark Sutton)

Jill of Ark (Jill Ennis)
* Will be raffling off a free 30-minute animal communication phone session

Lifeforce (Peter Hamilton)
*see a special Lifeforce Meatout news pdf

And don't forget to check in on the
FARM Blog

If you'd like to participate and be added to our list of Meatout bloggers,
please send an e-mail to Cindi@farmusa.org

Maynard | GoogleChat: Maynard.Clark | Google Profile

Maynard S. Clark, RAC | 617-615-9672 (GoogleVoice) | Skype: MaynardClark

Vstream Zine - the First Ever 54-page Zine about Vegan Blogs - Available Worldwide

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Vstream Zine - the First Ever 54-page Zine about Vegan Blogs - Available Worldwide

Friday, March 18, 2011

San Diego, Ca (Vocus/PRWEB) March 18, 2011

It's officially here the "Vstream Zine - A Vegan Blog Reporter!" Vegan Mainstream is excited to offer the first ever 54-page Zine about Vegan Blogs. It's a compilation of blog recommendations and preferences from your favorite vegans on the planet - not watered down at all. It's sure to become an official guide to the world of vegan blogging.

On Monday, Vegan Mainstream announced the first edition of VStream: The Vegan Blog Reporter. This project started with a simple idea: to create a guide that would help old-school vegans, new veg heads, and people exploring veganism, a list of the best vegan blogs online. However, the team learned quickly that classifying "the best" was nearly impossible because everyone had their own opinion.

So, instead of providing a flavorless list of the top 10 or 25 blogs, Vegan Mainstream asked some top bloggers, influential vegans and their own staff to tell readers about their favorite blogs in their own words.

This compilation of recommendations will equip a novice or expert with new insights to some of the funniest, strangest and most awesome blogs the Vegan community has to offer. In addition, interviews were conducted of fellow bloggers to get their perspective on how they started their blogs, why they think blogging is important to the vegan community and how readers can become more active in the vegan blogosphere.

To top it all off, the Zine includes a directory of 200 vegan blogs. Readers simply click on the links in the digital copy of the Zine to quickly access any blog in the directory.

The Zine is available as a Print or Digital version. The printed version includes a free copy of the digital version, thus creating the best value.

Vegan Mainstream chose a third party to manage the print version to ensure the Vstream Zine is available to a worldwide audience. So, readers anywhere in the globe can access a printed or digital copy.

Download the digital copy today to get instant access to the Vstream Zine. Or get your feet wet with a Free Sneak Peek copy.

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For the original version on PRWeb visit:www.prweb.com/releases/prwebvstream/veganmainstream/prweb8220084.htm

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Who's There?

Reminds me of the 'maverick' Episcopal clergyman from the 1960s, Malcolm Boyd, who sat on tall stools in Sixties coffeehouses and read poetry and other meditations.

Boyd hit the scene with Are You Running with Me, Jesus?, which was NOT a book about jogging.

As I sit in offices layered with stuffed bookcases, I think of how many books there are on so many different sides of issues - not just TWO sides of things - could be 3 sides or 4 sides.

Another side to the "Are you there?" controversy is the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer's The God Who Is There. Some of us might have thought, fleetingly, that Schaeffer was just 'begging the question' on God's existence based on the insufficiency of other widely-held worldviews grounded in modernity, such as deconstruction, absurdity, plurality of 'personal truths', etc. Nonetheless, Francis and Edith Schaeffer set up a popular working retreat in Huemes, Switzerland, called L'Abri, where Evangelical dropouts could go pray for answers to prayer, while they studied with this professional philosopher who had dropped out of religious liberalism.

What kind of dry fleece could they craftily set out for God to trick Him into answering their prayers?

The problem of pain and suffering is one of the classical problems of theodicy, and as more and more folks are globally aware (missionaries have been globally aware for millennia) of the depth and expanse of human suffering, the reflections become even MORE poignant, particularly when we consider priorities in the allocation of scares resources - but isn't that how economics is often defined: the quantitative social science of dealing with scarcities - real and presumed, temporary and long-term?

Those of us who have been sensitized to the nature of suffering as pervasive through ALL of sentient life realize that mere palliation is not the total answer. I was pharmacy students on the hoof, parading past my Huntington Avenue windows all day long, but the problem of suffering is not merely about aging and injury, nor about humans alone. Whether we call it 'structural inefficiences' or whatever, agency - human wills/volition - and action from that volition - are often set in motion so that real suffering occurs, not only in the agents, but also in both overt victims and unintended victims.

We KNOW that WE are there, but we're still quibbling about how MANY of us and which of us are morally significant enough to consider... reflectively, ethically.

Coffee smoothies" by Maynard S. Clark

Coffee smoothies"
by Maynard S. Clark

Coffee smoothies, our communion
Of our vegetarian union
Symbol of ongoing grip
On our ways of being hip

Caffeine, our necessity
For each working person's me.

Apologies to the LATE Christopher Gist Raible

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Renaissonics - Vegan Early Music Group in Greater Boston

Renaissonics, a Vegan Early Music Group in Greater Boston, tours in many configurations--from a quartet featuring Renaissance Chamber Music to as many as 10, or more, presenting gala Renaissance Dance and Music spectacles.

http://www.Renaissonics.com

http://www.WGBH.org/carols

Renaissonics tours as a vegan group group of musicians. Many of its members are fully vegan all the time, and the others are totally happy eating vegan with those real vegans.

Its members (as of 2005) were:

Dan Ryan - cello

James Johnston - violin'

Miyuki Tsurutani - virginal recorders, crumhorn

Laura Gulley - violin

Douglas Freundlich - lutes

John Tyson - recorders, crumhorn, pipe and trbor

Nancy Hurrell - harps

Eric Galm - percussion

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Room for Rent

0BR/1.5BA Apartment - Cedar St

Malden Center, Ma 02148 in Malden

Maynard S. Clark
anon30588@padlister.com
(617) 615-9672
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Price	$600
Bedrooms	0
Bathrooms	1.5 (1 full, 1 partial)
Availability	Now
Address	Cedar St, Malden, MA 02148
Neighborhood	Malden Center, Ma 02148
Cats/Dogs Allowed?	Neither
Fee?	No
Listed By:	Maynard S. Clark
-Email	anon30588@padlister.com
-Phone	(617) 615-9672
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Description:

$600 FAST WiFi/Utilities-for quiet nonsmoking student in SAFE, low-stress family home (Malden Center, MA) (map)

WHAT IS OFFERED:
* Large furnished upstairs room in tree-lined suburb near MBTA Orange Line stop
* VERY FAST WiFi (Verizon Ultimate 10-15 GB download) - All Utilities included.
* Both WiFi and Cable TV AND Internet cable access in room. Room has TV and furniture: bed, desk, chair, bookcase, etc.
* Furnished upstairs room in QUIET nonsmoking family home in quiet tree-lined suburb of Malden (3 minutes walk from elevated MBTA Orange Line: Malden Center - near Summer Street and Clifton/Mountain Streets).
* Free use of washing machine and dryer in house;, shared use of two bathrooms.
* Refrigerator shared with one other tenant (but not with family)
* Easy walk to Stop & Shop grocery, Walgreen's and CVS pharmacies, Super 88, other shopping, coffee (Dunkin' Donuts), dry cleaning and laundry, etc.

Available immediately

WHO IS SOUGHT:
* SERIOUS nonsmoker, nondrinker graduate or undergraduate student or a working professional)
* Scholarly student types are especially welcomed.
* No smoking, no alcohol, and no illegal drugs are to be brought into house or onto the property.
* No pets; no parties; no overnight visitors.

For the right person (such as an ESL student), this is an optimal short-term OR long-term housing situation.

WHAT IS ASKED:
$600/month
First and Last month's rent + key deposit + house rules acceptance in order to occupy the room].

CAVEAT:
In addition to first and last months' rent and $15 key deposit (total $1115 to get set of keys), homeowner requires of tenant, in order to occupy the room:

(a) local reference (local college/university reference for students) and
(b) tenant's personal signed acceptance of "House Rules" (mostly respect for others in the house, like consideration and good etiquette issues).

No open cooking in kitchen after 9 pm because this is a family's home with school-age student with 9 pm bedtime.
Contact INITIALLY through e-mail or phone.

Again, ONLY full-time NON-smokers should apply to live in this room.

And quiet, quiet, quiet ... !!

For the right person (such as a serious graduate or undergraduate student), this can be an optimal short-term OR long-term quiet housing situation near the MBTA.

Around Cedar Street and Chestnut Street (google map) (yahoo map) NEAR Summer Street and Malden Center.
Location: Malden Center, MA

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Tofu is Tasty - Respect all living things

Tofu is Tasty - Respect all living things

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Melanie Joy slide show on Carnism at Yale Friday, February 25, 7:30 pm - The New Haven Vegan Meetup Group (New Haven, CT) - Meetup

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Higher Fiber Intake for a Longer Life

Higher Fiber Intake for a Longer Life

Higher fiber intake is associated with significantly lower risk of dying, according to a study published online this week. Researchers looked at diet records from 219,213 people who were part of the NIH (National Institutes of Health)-AARP Diet and Health Study. Those who ate the most fiber had lower risks of death from cardiovascular disease and infectious and respiratory diseases, compared with participants who ate the least. Men who ate the most fiber also had a lower risk of cancer death, compared with men who consumed the least. Women with the highest fiber intake showed a non-statistically significant lower risk of death from cancer.

Fiber is only found in foods from plants, such as beans, grains, vegetables, and fruits.

Park Y, Subar AF, Hollenbeck A, Schatzkin A. Dietary fiber intake and mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Arch Intern Med. Published ahead of print February 14, 2011. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2011.18.

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Sunday, February 06, 2011

Types of Vegans

I distinguish three (3) broad categories of vegan practice (real vegan practice, not 'pretenders' to be vegan, who may or may not be vegetarian):

* Dietary vegans (includes rawfooders involved with diet ONLY)

* Lifestyle vegans (who exclude ALL products resulting from exploitation of sentient beings in their lifestyle: clothing, food, accessories, household furnishings, medication as much as possible, etc.). These folks MAY CALL themselves 'ethical vegans' if their motivations are ethical (or altruistic), but there's much quibble room here

* Abolitionist vegans (who work for the abolition of all exploitation of sentient beings, and the abolition of all structures, industrial processes, and business or military operations that exploit animals).

I place vegans doing rescue operations in the 2nd category UNLESS they are working for structural upheaval (not merely punitive legal action for welfare violations). I do NOT believe that animal rescue operations are in themselves abolitionist actions.

These distinctions can be helpful in sorting out here folks 'are coming from' in their conversations about 'veganism' and 'vegan' this and that.

I do NOT believe that things OR food can be vegan; they MIGHT, however, be vegan-friendly. I believe that ONLY persons can be vegan by one or more of these categories.

What's awesome?

Recently I was complimented that 'my thoughts are awesome' and that I'm doing 'awesome work'. Really, though, after my gut reaction to the compliment (one I consider to be undeserved), I had to note that, in my own self-understanding, I don't think that my thoughts are 'awesome' as much as they are conditioned by my choices to be around smart, critically-thinking, discerning, concerned, did I say SMART, well-read, accomplished, highly-disciplined, did I say VERY SMART and disciplined. Of course, I work at Harvard and treasure that opportunity, and a number of the friends and acquaintance I would like to bring closer to me are both ethical vegans and lifestyle vegans (dietary vegans who include an ethic of avoiding products of animal suffering in their lifestyles). Raw fooders (a type of dietary vegan) are interesting and, when they get good results, often quite admirable at that level. But I'm interested in the critical thinking that CAN come from disciplined, caring ETHICAL vegans.

Choosing who conditions us CAN be an ethical choice. Responsibility for what we do with our energies probably IS an ethical choice. I'm really not very good at that.

I would like to think about optimization of my energies (and others' energies) vs. ad hoc claims by others (coming from all around each of us, often with little accountability for the outcome of any 'aid' that is given to them).

Helping out nonhuman animals surely goes TO them without any sense of accountability on their part for converting our aid to them into their service to others. Humans don't show a very LARGE amount of that accountability, either, but at least we have social cultures around the world in which, occasionally, the issue is mentioned and sometimes raised to a level in public consciousness. Of course, often notions of 'accountability' are selectively applied - to highly visible persons.

Of course, I'm also interested in the SCIENCE around dietary veganism, and again, I treasure my good fortune in working with the Harvard School of Public Health. I only wish that 'professional vegetarians' and 'professional vegans' could systematically engage those resources for 'the greater good' of all.

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