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What I ate today...

Breakfast: Green Morning Stamina Smoothie

Lunch: Flax Cracker with Pine Nut Spread and Tomato

Snack: Purple Love Smoothie

Dinner: Raw Creamy Southern Greens

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Speaks for itself. We all need to laugh more often!

Vegan Author Victimized

Dear Friends,

If you have ever been moved by the integrity of John Robbins’ life, if you have benefitted from his nutritional advice, if you have opened your heart to animals because of his compassion, or if you appreciate how John’s work has helped our Earth, now is a time to give something back. We are.

John RobbiJohn and his family, along with hundreds of charitable organizations, universities, celebrities, and international banking institutions, are victims of Bernard Madoff’s fraudulent Ponzi scheme. The family learned last month that they lost their entire life savings.

John and his wife Deo have always lived frugally. They saved just about every dollar they could. They thought they invested their money safely. But it turns out that their money was stolen and there is little chance they can recover any of it. Now the Robbins family faces a sudden and severe financial crisis.

The Financial Reality

To economize, the family has rented out every extra room in their house and every spare space on their property. Still, it is not clear if they will be able to pay their mortgage or keep the property they share with their son, his wife and their two special-needs grandsons. Both Deo and John’s daughter-in-law Michele have taken extra jobs. Deo has also taken over daycare duties for the grandtwins. While John is writing a new book, it could be years before income emerges.  Meanwhile, a large mortgage looms.

Unfortunately, reports suggest that Bernard Madoff possessed less than 1 percent of the $50 billion in stolen assets, and attorney fees will likely eat up most of that. And while the SIPC insurance fund is providing up to $500,000 per invested account, the Robbins family invested with Madoff through a “feeder fund” comprising hundreds of accounts so it is doubtful that they will receive SIPC funds.

Call to Action for a Man Who Has Changed the World

We know few living people who have had a greater positive influence on our world than John Robbins.  He is a planetary and human wellness pioneer. He has led with ideas that were greeted with skepticism and disdain only to become mainstream common sense.  Thanks to his books, articles, speeches, and non-profit organizations, countless people around the world have changed the way they eat, dress, and relate to animals. His work has saved millions of hectares of tropical rainforest and inspired millions to live with greater compassion and integrity.

John's passion and ability to share his vision through speaking and writing are among the greatest gifts we have witnessed. We offered to send this appeal upon learning of this terrible injustice to a man who has dedicated his life to ending injustice.

How You Can Help

1) Send a check made out to John Robbins: Send it care of his son, Ocean Robbins, at 420 Bronco Road, Soquel, CA 95073, and it will be delivered to John immediately.
2) Send a gift directly through PayPal. This enables use of credit card donations as well as wire transfers.

3) If you are considering a major contribution and need more specifics or ideas, including possible tax-deductible gifts to a non-profit organization in support of an award and/or fellowship for John Robbins, then:CLICK HERE to send a message directly to the Robbins family.

While we are saddened that theft on a grand scale has visited John and his family, we are happy to pay him back in small measure for all he has given to us through his work and his life example. Thank you for making the most generous contribution you can for an extraordinary man.

With appreciation and love,

Marianne Williamson, Dr. Dean Ornish, Julia Butterfly Hill, Joanna Macy,
Van Jones, Paul Hawken, Nina Simons, Tom Gegax,
Lynne Twist,John Steiner and Margo King, Jeff Nelson, and Patti Breitman

Related Article: Renowned Soquel author John Robbins says he lost life savings in Madoff scheme

Raw Food Booth at the GoGreenExpo!

Had a really great day at the GoGreenExpo today, after my friend Brian Au of Raw In Ten Minutes invited me to come down and help out at his booth. I'm so glad I got a chance to go, it was a tremendously successful event, incredible turnout, more than I've seen at other similar expos. I got to connect with soooooo many lovely people and help them with some raw food inspiration and really belp promote Brian as well. It was also so inspirational to be around Brian and to see the tremendous response and success he is having. Go Brian! You RAWk! Brian's books and knives are amazing, and he will give you the best deal anywhere at his site, so go check him out! Brian and I will be throwing an Elements For Life Superfood Party in the near future! Contact me through this contact form on my main site if you want to be on the invite list.


Mariel Hemingway spoke and promoted her new book at the event today, which looks like it has a really great message, unfortunately she said a few negative words about raw food, which I felt was in poor taste considering she was telling her audience to go green starting with making your body a temple. She was trying to look for a more universal message, so she is even supporting meat. I think she has made a poor choice, although I understand she is looking for universality to get her message across, because people of course don't want to hear that they should stop eating meat or clean their colon out so raw foods don't give them gas. Other than that, as I said, her new book carries am important message.

Going Raw Vegan is definitely the most important choice a person could make to be "Green," because eating is a choice we make several times a day , everyday, so this choice thus has tremendous affects on the environment through how the food was grown, transported, processed, and the trash it created. Eating Raw Vegan reconnects you to nature, stops the trash cycle, and then of course doesn't support the meat and dairy industries, one of the biggest sources of pollution and ecological destruction we've created. It also gives people the greatest aweareness of how and why to eat locally and organic.

Raw Ice Cream!

Get your Raw Cashews first!

I just returned our new Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and got a vegetable washer instead. One, we don't ever make ice cream for ourselves, it is somewhat antithetical to a raw life, as freezing fruit and other ingredients takes away a lot of the natural qualities of the original food and the cold affects the colon for sure. I LOVE my vitamix smoothies way more than cold ice cream!

Now don't get me wrong, I am totally into everyone enjoying raw ice cream for sure if that really does it for them, but for me it wouldn't be something I would take the time to do more than once a year, or for special dinner parties etc... And what's cool, is I have the the world's coolest juicer, and as Alex mentions, I will simply freeze it in ice cubes and put it through my juicer, which makes the smoothest most incredible ice cream. For sorbet, just put your favorite frozen fruit through the right kind of juicer with the blank screen attachment, and you will have the best sorbet ever!

I have owned the same Greenstar juicer for 10 years, since I first went raw, and it still works excellently. Mark and I make amazing green concoctions with it. We call them magic potions! Other juicers and blenders with fast rotating blades can destroy a substantial amount of nutrients in fruits and vegetables due to the heat and the impact produced in the operation of the machine, so the kind of juicer you own does matter.

With your Green Star juice extractor you can minimize the loss of nutrients because of the unique triturating Twin Gear feature which is an impeller press system.Its powerful low r.p.m. turning speed generates virtually no heat to your juice and thoroughly crushes and presses fruits and vegetables, instead of cutting and shredding them into small pieces.

Pepsi's Raw?

If you didn't already think RAW FOODS are the newest/oldest trend coming to a theatre near you.....well check this out...they're so popular now that even Pepsi is trying to get on the bandwagon...

This drink will initially only be available in the UK in select bars. This is a perfect example of why I like the term LifeFoods so much more than Raw Foods, because raw could mean just about anything. Raw Caramel Coloring is not even raw, it's just another word for corn syrup, and how they hide the corn syrup in this new drink. It's all such a joke, but still, it does show that we raw foodists are on to something nonetheless, that even Pepsi is forced to invent something to try to be part of this massive movement.

Cleansing Green Drink

My husband, Mark Stephenson, wrote this about the incredible cleansing green drink I've been making for years in a Greenstar Juicer:

We made an amazing juice yesterday, a true potion of extraordinary deliciousness and benefit.

We combined:

• several pieces of kale
• several pieces of collard greens
• several pieces of dandelion greens
• a large handful of parsley
• a handful of cilantro
• a whole peeled lemon
• a chunk of ginger
• two small fuji apples
• lots of celery
• half a cucumber

I think that's it.

The result was an amazing concoction of pure green goodness. Drinking it brought about a deep, peaceful, yet vibrantly energetic energy into my body. This is part of the beauty and the power of eating a living food diet: the wonderful dichotomy of stillness and energy, both present in abundance. Read about the juicer we use for maximum nutritional benefit in Corin's Raw Ice Cream blog above.