Featured Guests:

Tom Newmark

Tom Newmark is CEO of New Chapter, Inc. of Brattleboro, Vermont and a co-owner of Luna Nueva Farm in Costa Rica.  Both New Chapter and Luna Nueva are certified organic to NOP standards, and Luna Nueva also holds the distinction of being a Demeter-certified Biodynamic® spice estate.  It is at Luna Nueva that New Chapter has perfected the cultivation of organic turmeric and ginger, which are prized components of many of New Chapter’s formulations.  Tom is author of numerous articles on health topics, and he is the co-author of the books Beyond Aspirin (2000 Holm Press) and The Life Bridge (Herbal Free Press 2002).  He and New Chapter’s founder Paul Schulick are proud parents of Zyflamend®, one of the world’s most respected herbal formulations, and Tom has been awarded multiple patents for innovative herbal formulations.  Tom’s memberships include the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organic Center, American Botanical Council’s Director’s Circle, William L Brown Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden, American Herbal Products Association, and the Whole Planet Foundation.  He is also a board member of the Monteverde Conservation League-US, and a founding board member of the Biodynamic Trade Association.  Tom is a founder of Semillas Sagradas, the Sacred Seeds Sanctuary in Costa Rica dedicated to protecting endangered medicinal plants of the neotropics.  This sanctuary is one of the new world’s largest and most comprehensive sanctuaries for endangered plant species.

In Tom’s distant past life he was a trial attorney, but even way back when his clients reflected his commitment to progressive causes.  He represented the Animal Legal Defense Fund (representing the river otters of Missouri in an attempt to prohibit underwater trapping), the Natural Law Party of the United States (attempting to obtain the inclusion of its presidential candidate in the 1996 presidential debates), and the Enlightened Sentencing Project (supporting the right of Missouri judges to sentence youthful drug offenders to meditation as an alternative to incarceration).

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