Celebrate Earth Day Everyday

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I ask you to consider honoring Mother Earth everyday. We can not continue to take from our resources and never give back in return. There needs to be a balance [...]

Organic Vegetable Gardens

Planting a home vegetable garden is a wonderful way to provide your family with fresh healthy produce throughout the year. Even though the vegetables in your garden will be ripe for just a short period of time during the year, you can take the extras and put them into your freezer, or jar them and [...]

Go Green With Organic Tea

More and more tea varieties are available as organic. Every variety of tea, whether Black tea, Green tea, White tea, or Oolong tea, is cultivated in some regions under protocols of organic cultivation. This trend has much to do with a return to the source need which has taken the world by storm in the [...]

Buying Green Food on a Budget

One of the most basic things you can do for the environment is to buy foods that are produced in environmentally sound ways. Unfortunately, this can be quite expensive and the foods can be hard to find.
The main reason this can seem to be so hard is that people often limit themselves to the grocery [...]

Plastics, Particleboard & the Microwave

Some people have an innate aversion to certain items that turn out to be harmful. Most people may have a natural aversion to harmful products but they learn to override their gut instincts in the name of convenience or fitting in.
I never really understood why I avoided certain products but I just felt [...]

Pesticides in Our Food

Pesticides do more than kill little tiny bugs. They permanently harm human beings in countless ways. It is foolish to assume that something capable of killing a beetle will not harm your sperm, egg or fetus. According to an article found at NYTimes.com, ‘One study found that the incidence of leukemia in [...]

BPA and Canned Foods

Many of us are aware of the dangers of BPA in our water bottles and baby bottles, but for some reason we overlook the danger of BPA and canned foods. BPA was originally developed in the 1930s to be used as an estrogen replacing drug for women but was replaced by the stronger DES. [...]

What is Fair Trade Coffee?

“The chief concern of the Fair Trade movement has been to ensure that the vast majority of the world’s coffee farmers (who are small holders) get a fair price for their harvests in order to achieve a decent living wage. Fair Trade guarantees to poor farmers organized in cooperatives around the world: a living wage; [...]

Start an Organic Salad Garden

“When you garden organically, you think of your plants as part of a whole system within Nature that starts in the soil and includes the water supply, people, wildlife and even insects. An organic gardener strives to work in harmony with natural systems and to minimize and continually replenish any resources the garden consumes.” Organicgardening.com
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What are Downer Cows?

Downer cows recently made headlines after a disturbing undercover video was released, the USDA issued a massive meat recall and the Humane Society sued. Cows headed for slaughter that are so sick or crippled they are unable to stand up are called downer cows by the meat industry. Generally speaking, these cows are [...]