michelle victoria 3 Comments Changing Habits, Cleaning Products, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Gardens and Farms, Recycling, Restaurants, Sustainable Agriculture, Transportation
There is a wonderful film called No Impact Man (and there is a book version as well) that came out fairly recently about a N.Y. city family that spends a year exploring what it means to live without making any impact on the earth. They went to an extreme that most of us would never
michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Recipes, Sustainable Agriculture
I hear quite often that people feel as if they don’t have the time to cook proper meals and that is why they are caught in the snacking, fast food or always eating out syndrom, even when they know that what they are eating is not good for them….But I think most of these people
michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Recycling
Today is World Water Day which was initiated in 1992 at United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. I see it as a day to think about water…our use of it, and how easily we can get clean water while over 1 billion people are without access to clean drinking
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Industrial food practices, School Lunches
Last night was the preview for Chef Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution. I will say from the start as much as I love to cook, and I even opened a coffee house/cafe to fulfill this love of cooking, I rarely watch cooking shows and had never seem Jamie’s TV show. Naturally I have
michelle victoria 3 Comments Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
Not too long ago Silk products, including their Silk soy milk, switched from using organic soybeans to cheaper commercial or ‘natural’ (as their web site says) soybeans in almost all of their products. This switch took place in a way that most consumers would never have noticed. Initially the packaging remained virtually unchanged except for
michelle victoria 1 Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
Once again the Organic Consumers Association is watching out for us with their Coming Clean Campaign. They have prepared a “spreadsheet” showing a number of body care products including Dr. Bonners, Nature’s Gate Organics, Jasons Natural Cosmetics, Kiss My Face, Avalon Organics and quite a few others showing what is relatively safe and what is
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Energy
This is a great web site to learn about what it takes to build a green house that is totally modern in its use of what today’s technology, building materials and appliances have to offer while maintaining a standard of what many families are accustomed to. This is no off-the-grid, we are going to slightly
michelle victoria 2 Comments Changing Habits
Slow Death By Rubber Duck-the Secret Danger of Everyday Things, is a book about the prevalence of chemicals in our everyday lives. Chemicals that are found in our cosmetics, furniture, food and bedding and that remain in our bodies contributing to so many types of illness from cancer to birth defects. But what makes this
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Recycling, San Francisco-Bay Area, Transportation
Today as I was beginning to flatten cardboard boxes for recycling day I admit I was initially annoyed at having to do this. I thought about all of the cardboard that doesn’t get recycled, would my few boxes really matter? Then I thought about what had been in the boxes and I realized that they
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
Here is a great piece from treehugger.com about GMOS’s. The main point of the story is why have Americans accepted the massive inclusion of genetically modified food in our food supply, without much of a fight. And I will add, why has our government been complicit in this. Last week in India the release of genetically