Love, love, love this excerpt! Kind of goes along with this weeks theme for my project366 …. Giving and receiving …. it can be a vicious circle. What you give out comes right back to you. But it can also be a wonderful circle. What you give out comes right back to you. The choice…
Dr Mercola has a really good article here. The cleaner your home is, the unhealthier it may be, because of toxic cleaning products made from petroleum-based chemicals. To clean with natural products all you need is: * Baking soda * Vinegar * Borax * Hydrogen peroxide * Liquid castile soap * Organic essential oils (optional)…
The thought of dolphins being ferociously slaughtered makes me ill, makes me want to do SOMETHING. Although watching this video had me in tears, I thought it a good video to post, thinking it better to be educated and disturbed (prompting one to take action) rather than to sit idly by allowing for a Japanese…
The logic of this argument is staring us right in the face. What do you intend to do with your lottery ticket??!
Quite the amazing video and words of wisdom …
Markets of any sort draw me within, lulling me into an inner frenzy, excited at the prospect of buying and supporting locally, lessening our environmental footprint. However, local here in Calgary pretty much means that the produce is imported from British Columbia. It seems, although factually I am not entirely sure, that Calgary does not…
Ever the environmentalist, I’m always looking for nature-friendly products to use in our home and lifestyle. For example, it’s important to me to both wash our clothes with natural products and air-dry either on an outside clothes line or with a clothes horse. Did you know that “laundry equipment consumes vast amounts of energy and…
You can actually sign up at David Suzuki’s website for the Nature Challenge (and it’s easy as typing in your email address). But even if you decide not to go the digital route to receiving his newsletter (an e-newsletter full of tips and suggestions for making sustainable choices), you too can make a difference. Each…
I’ll never forget that feeling, that sense of abrupt arrival, feeling like a stranger touching down into an alien world, or as certain secular interests might profess, a ‘civilized’ society. After returning home from both India and Guatemala (separate trips, disconnected entities), every move I made at first seemed like that from a slow-motion movie…
The Organic Consumers Association believes With consumer demand for organic products continuing to grow, more large corporations are entering the organic market. To maximize profits, some of these companies don’t follow organic standards but still label products as organic. For example, Horizon Organic and Aurora Organic, sold by Wal-Mart and other retailers, continue to produce…