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PYP 038: Ocean Robbins: Leverage, Kindness, and Justice

Ocean Robbins co-founded YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) at the age of 16, and hasn’t slowed down since. He’s co-founder, with his dad John Robbins (author of Diet for a New America and many other awesome books), of the Food Revolution Network, which advocates and educates about food justice, safety, compassion, and sustainability.

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PYP 025: Milton Mills on “Soul Food,” Liberation, and the Myth of Predatory Eyes

Milton Mills, MD, is Associate Director of Preventive Medicine for the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as well as a practicing internist at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He also provides medical care and counseling in several free clinics in Washington, DC. In this conversation, Dr Mills shared his provocative views – all of them supported by overwhelming evidence – on the ideal human diet.

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PYP 022: Laura Bartels: Natural Building and a Mindful Life

Laura Bartels is the founder/owner of Greenweaver, Inc., a consulting and education company that promotes sustainable building and community development.

In this interview, she discusses the connections between creating a nurturing external environment and cultivating a mindful interior environment.

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PYP 020: Dr. Ana Negron: The Living Experience of Healthy Eating

Dr. Ana Negron is a family physician in the Philadelphia area who treats her patients with healthy food, empowerment, community, and love. Read More

PYP 016: Brian Wendel: Producer of Forks Over Knives

Today I had a lovely chat with the amazing Brian Wendel, creator of the #1 amazon bestselling documentary Forks Over Knives.

We talked about Brian’s introduction to plant-based living in 2001, and his determination to spread the word about the powerful effects of this way of living on our health.

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PYP 012: David Robinson Simon: Meatonomics

Dave Simon’s Meatonomics is a fascinating and terrifying descent into economic, social, political, environmental, and ethical insanity.

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