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  • What is New in the World of Natural Products

    michelle March 13, 2013     No Comment     Activism, Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

      Last weekend was the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim. It is an annual event in California and I believe it is the largest trade show for “natural” products. If you imagine one of Whole Foods largest stores on steroids that is what this  show is like. As I relaunch SmartLifeways with more regular posts

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  • New Mexico could be the first state to pass a GMO labeling law.

    michelle January 19, 2013     No Comment     Activism, Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Santa Fe, Sustainable Agriculture

    I have not been as active here at SmartLifeways as I would have liked to be over the last months, actually for most of 2012, but it has all been for good productive work in other areas. But…now here in New Mexico a bill has been introduced to require labeling of food containing GMO’s. If

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  • Ending GMO’s…we are just getting started.

    michelle November 12, 2012     No Comment     Activism, Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

      California just came very close to passing the first statewide initiative in America that would have mandated the labeling of food if genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) were an ingredient. Prop 37 was known as the “The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.” If Proposition 37 had been approved, it would have: Required labeling

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  • Who is Tim DeChristopher?

    michelle victoria June 20, 2011     No Comment     Activism

        This is a great interview of Tim DeChristopher from Chris Hedges. I wanted to share it since these words are what inspired me to organize a day of solidarity for Tim after hearing him speak last week.  I hope that it proves inspirational to you. Tim does an excellent job at connecting the

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  • Solidarity with Tim DeChristopher

    michelle victoria June 19, 2011     No Comment     Activism, Climate Change

    Last Monday I had the privilege to hear environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, give a talk here in Santa Fe, NM. Tim’s activism took a more committed turn when he attended a BLM auction in December 2008  that was selling pristine wilderness for oil and gas development. Tim had thought that he might interrupt the auction to

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