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  • More Surprises in Fast Food

    michelle victoria February 21, 2011     No Comment     Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Restaurants

    There has been much written about the frightening aspects of fast food meat, from how the animals are raised to massive amount of antibiotics and hormones these animals are given, not too mention the massive amounts of polluting waste coming from these large factory farms, also known as CAFO’s (concentrated animal feeding operations). Did you

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  • Save Some Trees

    michelle victoria February 2, 2011     No Comment     Changing Habits, Recycling

    Do you still receive junk mail? I have called so many catalog customer service departments to be taken off their mailing lists I have stopped counting. But I still was receiving lots of junk mail from local supermarkets (what is super about selling aisles and aisles of pretend food that is making millions of Americans

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  • More Greenwashing?

    michelle victoria January 15, 2011     No Comment     Body Care Products, Changing Habits

    I recently decided to once again take a look at the products that I have in my house just to be sure that I had eliminated all of the ones with toxins. I really had thought that I had done a thorough job of this but I was shocked to find parabens, sodium laureth sulfate

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  • Sustainable Eating-for you and the planet…

    michelle January 3, 2011     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Recipes, Sustainable Agriculture

    One way to start the new year is by eating better. January is probably the month when more people vow to eat better, lose weight and start working out, than any other month of the year. Eating better is also one way to take a big step in living more sustainably. Conveniently, doing better for your

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  • A Great Way to Start the New Year….

    michelle victoria December 30, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Climate Change, Farmers Markets, Sustainable Energy

    Going through my mail today I had something from the EDF-Environmental Defense Fund and I decided to share it here because it is something all of us can do to make a difference. 10 Things You Can Do to Fight Global Warming-It truly is up to each of us. 1. Recycle and buy minimally packaged

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  • Alternative Energy-Good Enough for the Military

    michelle victoria December 20, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Sustainable Energy, Transportation, Uncategorized

    Over the last year I have read a few times about the Navy and Marines going “green” and it has me wondering if it is good enough, and efficient enough, for them what about the rest of us? The idea that solar and bio-fuels are somehow inferior to coal and oil will have to be put

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  • Joining Together to Save Our Food Choices

    michelle victoria December 15, 2010     No Comment     Body Care Products, Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Sustainable Agriculture

    I doubt that there are many of us who do not recognize the increasing influence of big business that has been creeping into the political process over the last decades. The most recent election was a free for all when it came to campaign contributions, and for many of these contributions we the public are

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  • Delicious Chocolate For You and Your Holiday Shopping…

    michelle victoria December 11, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits

    I have been meaning to post this story for some time now about some incredible organic, vegan chocolates that I was lucky to discover, but now I realize that I never got to it so that now I could give you a holiday shopping suggestion that anyone would love. Nicobella Vegan Organic Chocolates are the

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  • Time to Put Public Health Before Corporate Interests

    michelle victoria December 8, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices

    You can let California’s Governor-Elect Jerry Brown know that you don’t want your strawberries sprayed with a known carcinogen and neurotoxin. There was public and scientific opposition to approving methyl iodide but lobbying and corporate interests won out over the health of strawberry consumers across the country (90% of all strawberries consumed in the U.S.

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  • Toxic Holiday Toys-The Gift that Keeps Giving…dangerous chemicals

    michelle December 7, 2010     1 Comment     Body Care Products, Sustainable Businesses, Video Clips

    Just as we dive into the holiday season a warning about shopping at Toys “R” Us. In spite of a promise two years ago “to reduce the use of PVC in the toys they sell and to offer more PVC-free products, the store has not kept its promise.” Imagine 72% of the toys that were

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