Today, young western women are proudly dressing to display their breasts and bellies, their centers of procreation, as never before. If this style comes from a sense of pride in their bodies, rather than blindly following a trend, it’s a healthy and encouraging sign of a return to the love of femininity. Indeed, our young women are displaying the fount of their Feminine Power.

Camouflaged microwave tower, Tucson

Like ubiquitous plastics, cell phones (or mobile phones) have come on like gangbusters for their convenience. But the technology was not tested sufficiently, and there was no one to guard the public from predatory industries and knee-jerk consumerist desire for status objects. We are still flooding the environment and our bodies with the abuses of radiation (and plastics), and foisting them on our children. Eleven-year-old kids with cell phones is now common, but the schools and parents aren't bothering to look at the alleged need and how to meet it with a healthy approach. Whenever I use a cell phone or cordless phone I get a pain deep in my ear after a short time of usage. Some people don't get it (pun intended). - Jan Lundberg

Mum's the word among federal officials about the health benefits of eating organic foods.

The Department of Health and Human Services defers questions about organic foods to the Food and Drug Administration. But the FDA has no policy on organics because it says they're the domain of the Department of Agriculture, which will admit to using the "o-word," but says its mandate is simply to regulate use of the certified organic label, not to judge the relative benefits of organic versus conventional foods.

While the agencies entrusted with safeguarding our food and health pass the potato, a fast-growing body of scientific literature suggests that the connection between farm practices and the healthfulness of our foods merits attention. Organic foods don't come out ahead of conventionally grown foods in 100 percent of comparative tests, but they rise to the top often enough to suggest that organic farming can increase, sometimes dramatically, the nutrient density of what we put in our mouths.

The key question for our survival may be "Are we out of balance temporarily?", or "Is balance lost and we have to adjust to a new and tougher ecological reality?"

If extinction of humans is part of a re-balancing act by nature, but many species pull through what seems to be a climate extinction we have caused, this may be the best outcome the planet and even humans can hope for. This is a biocentric and "humane" view of our ecological and evolutionary predicament. Why not love what we have, or by extension what the Earth allows? Many humans, however, are of the attitude, "If I'm not here, and humans aren't here, what do I care if the planet freezes or fries?" This column is rarely read by those humans.

We are faced with resolving today's crisis of nature's being thrown into a new balance or imbalance not so favorable for most animals and plants. We can picture as part of our task identifying how we have taken courses of action that unbalanced or supported the balance that prevailed, such as in human relations. People see such struggle daily and may be forced to suppress it. This can be due to surrounding values aided by disempowerment of people and the creation of poverty, by design of the rulers.