body&health
Living Green In Your Own Skin
Stacy Wilde
What you touch and what you breathe ends up in your blood stream. So just for a challenge, pick a day and count how many things in your home touch your skin from the time you get up until the time you go to bed. Then multiply that by 365 days a year!
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Going Green with your Pets
Alison Chandler
As we move into the 21st Century, society is embracing the idea of using natural and organic products for our bodies and in our homes. Living a more holistic lifestyle is taking center stage in many people's lives across the nation -- including caring for pets!
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Easy Ways to Minimize Your Exposure to Pollutants & Toxins
David McGrath
Most people know that pollution comes from many different sources and that it lowers the quality of life for those subjected to it. What we often don't realize is that the sources of pollution are right under our noses; nor are we aware of the relative ease with which we can minimize or remove these sources. Here are some practical recommendations for minimizing household pollution.
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What’s the “right stuff” for Fluffy & Fido?
Maura Yates
Whether our pets are heroes or just beloved members of our family, we want them to be happy and live long healthy lives. Nutrition plays such a crucial role in the collective health of our pets that it is no wonder we find ourselves looking for alternatives in the wake of the pet-food contamination scare that happened in mid-March 2007.
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Community Supported Agriculture
Jennifer Woods
One way to find locally grown organic produce is to visit your weekly farmers market, but there is another way - your local CSA. What is a CSA? CSA is an acronym for Community Supported Agriculture, a system through which individuals and families subscribe, in advance, to receive weekly produce directly from their local farm.
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Natural Cleaning Products
Maura Yates
There is a plethora of household cleaning products available in the marketplace, but few people are aware that many of them contain toxins and chemicals that are damaging to the health of people, pets and the environment. Conventional cleaning products often contain bleach, phosphate and formaldehyde, which when released into the environment, can cause harmful effects to ecosystems and human health.
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