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Category Archives: Environment
The Story of STUFF!
Have you ever stopped to consider…“Where does all the stuff we buy come from, and where does it go when we throw it out?”
Annie Leonard has.
If you haven’t heard much about Annie Leonard yet, you will.
Her new book, The Story of Stuff, was released yesterday. I would suggest that everyone read this book.
Prior to purchasing [...]
Fill your stomach. Not the Landfill!
According to Clean Air Council, Americans throw out enough paper bags and plastic cups, forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times!
Check out TakeOutWithOut (TOWO).
Founder K.B. Lee founded TOWO to convince restaurants to encourage customers to bring their own containers when buying take out and to ask customers to cut back [...]
Posted in Environment 2 Comments
Food Matters – A Documentary You MUST See!
Food Matters is a documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.’s and Medical Journalists you will discover…
How to use food as medicine
Who needs vitamins?
Is organic better?
How safe is our food?
Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol
Foods [...]
What to Eat – It’s Complicated!
At a recent lunch with a new friend, the following dreadful words slipped from her mouth…”Please don’t judge me while I eat this!”, as she took her first bite of burger. Not again! Why do so many meat eaters new to my life assume I’m judging them? They either try to defend eating meat, shamefully [...]
Also posted in Farm Issues, Food / Food Safety, Green Living, Healthy Living, Physical Wellness, Raw Food, Vegan 2 Comments
Vermicomposting – The Red “Wonders” from “Down Under”
Meet the newest additions to our family – Eisenia Fetida (Red Worm), also known as…The Squirmy Bunch!
Denis and I started vermicomposting last year and we just received another pound of Red Worms this week. I love them already!
Composting is a natural process of rotting material down to make a soil like product which [...]
Also posted in Green Living, Healthy Living Tagged compost, composting, fertilizer, gardening, Green Living, recycling, sustainability, vermicompost, Waste, worm bin 4 Comments
Adventures in People Watching – #1
Yesterday I rushed to the Whole Foods Market in an effort to stock up on food before the blizzard hit. So, I have to let the cat out of the bag and tell you that I’m a people watching addict. It’s BAD! One of my favorite things to do is go to local grocery stores [...]
What is your “food print”?
I try to avoid self labeling as much as possible, but I just had to smile when a good friend referred to us as “Locavores” the other day. Such a funny word!
A locavore is someone who aims to eat food that is locally produced, normally within 100 miles from home.
Let me begin by addressing the [...]
Also posted in Fair Trade/ Social Justice/ Buy Local Movement, Farm Issues, Healthy Living Tagged local, local food, locavore, sustainable 2 Comments
The Truth about Bottled Water