Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Recycle, Reduce on Jul 12th, 2010
My town doesn’t pick up cardboard. Crazy, right? One of the easiest things to recycle. I figured there had to be a place around here that would take the three or four cardboard boxes we get each week. I really had to find someplace because wntil now I had been — yes, I know how [...]
Posted in Environment, Food, Going Green, Toxins on May 25th, 2010
Stanford University researchers on May 20th release a new report that links diabetes with environmental causes. Yes, you can still reduce your chances of the disease by eating right, keeping your weight down and exercising, but you can also mitigate risk by avoiding PCBs, according to researchers. From the study press release: “The prevalence of [...]
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Health, Illness, Organic, Preventative medicine, Safety, Toxins on May 8th, 2010
Yesterday the President’s Cancer Panel — I can’t believe I didn’t know it existed — released its most recent annual report, Reducing Environmental Risk: What We Can Do Now. Download it. It’s worth a read. The report explains that, in 2009, more than 1.5 American men, women and children were diagnosed with cancer, and 562,000 [...]
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Reduce, energy on May 4th, 2010
I work in a very nice office. I’ve got a desk and chair, a large LCD monitor, a file cabinet and a soft, cushy easy chair that I never seem to find time to sit in. It’s upstairs in the front of the house, though, so I keep my windows closed during the day to [...]
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Organic on May 1st, 2010
My husband came home from the store today with a surprise. One that made me smile really widely: A compost bin! Finally! He gave it to me right before dinner so all the non-meat scraps that are sitting on the table will soon find a new home. I can’t wait to see how this is [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Environment, Going Green, Organic, Sustainable on Apr 7th, 2010
Yesterday Seventh Generation posted a great blog by one of its contributors: More Voices, More Votes. The post equates making green and healthy choices with casting votes. Every time you choose a home-cooked meal over a fast food one, every time you bring your own bags to the supermarket, every time you recycle instead of [...]
Posted in Environment, Favorite Things Friday, Going Green, energy on Apr 2nd, 2010
Busy today. Stories to edit. Stories to research. Story to write. Still, couldn’t let Friday go by without a fun Favorite Things column. I’ve gathered up some interesting new Web sites. Hope you enjoy! And since I love recounting my own Favorite Things: Keira went from three word sentences to ten word sentences this week. [...]
Posted in Environment, energy on Mar 31st, 2010
Every morning I wake up and scan the headlines for environmental news. This morning one of the first things I saw was a CNN headline that really upset me: Obama Energy Plan Would Open Atlantic and Gulf Drilling. I read the story. In a nutshell, the new plan will lift a 20 year ban on [...]
Posted in Environment, energy on Mar 29th, 2010
On Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 p.m. I should have been sitting in the dark. I had signed up for Earth Hour, a wonderful World Wildlife Fund program that asked everyone around the world– for just one hour — to turn off their lights in support of positive climate change. A follow-the-sun program, once it [...]
Posted in Environment, Favorite Things Friday, Going Green, energy on Jan 29th, 2010
One of the things I dislike the most about the green movement is the fact that so many people discount it. Case in point: This week a new study came out from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Pew surveyed more than 1,500 Americans via telephone, asking them about their biggest [...]
