Guest poster, Abby Ray, who used to spearhead media outreach for the Rainforest Alliance, an international nonprofit organization, wrote this amazing post months ago. I just found it amongst a series of draft articles. Time moves so quickly that Abby is now a master’s candidate in the Sustainability Management Program at Columbia University . Go [...]
September 2010
Ordinarily I don’t review books that do not have an environmental bent. However, LESSONS TO MY CHILDREN: Simple Life Lessons for Financial Success, Wealth, and Abundance by Mark Cohen and Weston D Burnett intrigued me given our economic times. Our own children are witnessing our mistakes but what kind of financial education have we been [...]
Since becoming a gardener, I am constantly looking of ways to use every part of the vegetable. Over the years, I have learned that cauliflower, turnip, and broccoli leaves are amazing. See here for a recipe for greens to die for. Simple easy and addicting. I have even tried cooking sunflower leaves but when they [...]
My beautiful Scarlett runner green beans. It’s September and my tomatoes and green beans are still going strong. To be honest, I am kind of tuckered out from making tomato sauce. How many green beans can you freeze when only my husband and I like them? Janelle of Healthy Child, Healthy World must have been [...]
Remember when the phone industry was deregulated and all the sudden there was competition in the market decreasing your phone bill? What about your residential electricity bill? Is your state deregulated and thus opened to competitive residential electricity rates from other vendors? In fact, my state, New Jersey, has been deregulated since 1999. However, there was [...]
Have you ever heard of a balance board? Me neither. But, they make sense especially with core conditioning. It is one of the first time my then-trainer worked on. My lack of balance. Okay, and then there was those really weak core muscles. So, if you are like me, core strengething is key since we [...]
Pictures courtesy of Ellen Forsyth Re-purpose is the first word out of my mouth when it comes to the 3Rs. But, what about unloved books? Sure you can swap them, leave on a park bench for other to find or sell them. But creating furniture out them? Well, this concept tops my list. Delft [...]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Roberts, the Senior Marketing Director at American Standard about their new water conservation products and educational campaign, the Responsible Bathroom. The resulting podcast and video-cast I entitled “Everything you want to know about Water Conservation but were afraid to ask.” Believe me, Michelle left no rock unturned in [...]
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. This week we have green news sure to get up going this week. Grab a cup of Joe and start reading. From the demand desk aimed at making telecommuting the norm to BPA in your child’s sealants. Goodbye office, hello ‘desk on demand’ I have been preaching this to any [...]
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I received the following email from the co-founder of Blog Catalog, a social media website alerting me to the fact that countless children do not have clean drinking water. Please read his email and
