#025: Bill Tara - Human Ecologist

Since 1967 Bill Tara has been an active advocate for natural heath care, macrobiotic nutrition and human ecology. He was the Vice President of Erewhon Trading Company, one of America’s first distributors of natural organic foods, and was a co-founder of Sunwheel Natural Foods in London, England.

COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION

Bill established health education centers in Chicago, Los Angeles and London England. In 1975 he founded the Community Health Foundation in London England, a Charitable Trust that was the largest natural health education center in the world. Together with Michio and Aveline Kushi, he was a founder of the Kushi Institute and served as Executive Director of the institute programs in London, England and Boston, USA.

Bill served on the Macrobiotic Teachers Review Boards in both America and Europe and was the Chairman of the European Macrobiotic Assembly for four years and was Chairman of the American Macrobiotic Congress for two years.

He has been invited to present seminars on Natural Health Care, Human Ecology, Body Psychology and Macrobiotic Philosophy in 27 countries. Bill has served on the faculty of the International Macrobiotic Institute, Switzerland, Institute Macrobiotic Portugal, Naropa University, Colorado, U.S.A., The Academy of Healing Nutrition, New York, London and San Francisco and the Kushi Institute, U.S.A., and U.K. He also served for two years as the Director of Natural Therapies at the SHA Wellness Clinic in Albir, Spain. He has been awarded a life-time achievement award from the Kushi Institutefor his 55years of service to a healthy and peaceful world.

BOOKS

In 1975 Bill edited and published, Your Face Never Lies, based on the teachings of Michio Kushi, which continues to be one of the most popular books on Oriental Diagnosis. In 1985 he published Macrobiotics and Human Behavior, the first book by a Westerner on the Chinese theory of the Body/Mind connection. Natural Body Natural Mind was published in 2008 and his first novel, Portal of Dreams was published in 2011. In 2019 his book he published How To Eat Right And Save The Planet.

You can reach Bill and know more about his work here: https://humanecologyproject.com/