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This Sunday is the Global Work Party organized by Bill McKibben’s organization 350.org. There are 6,846 events organized in 188 countries as of Oct 7 at 4:00 pm Mountain Time. If you like you can organize your own or join in an event already planned. Check here to see what is planned close by or
michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Sustainable Businesses
This cup can save a lot of trees. In fact if all of the to-go coffee drinkers, and tea drinkers too, would get a cup like this we could save millions of trees every year! Actually, it doesn’t even have to be just like this one….. There is a web site called Sustainability is Sexy
michelle No Comment Changing Habits, Recycling, Sustainable Businesses
You never know when something good can come out of something that seems to be negative. Very often we as humans are motivated to make a change only when our back is up against the wall and we really have to. For instance how many people finally start to eat healthier when they find out
michelle victoria No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
I am learning more and more about the world of toxic beauty products. Who would have thought that many of these products should have warning labels on them, and they should since many contain known carcinogens. Not too long ago I went for a manicure and could not stay because the shop smelled so terrible
michelle 1 Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture
Just saw this wonderful five minute video of what is wrong, and also what is right about our food system at Civil eats (a great web site). What makes it even more extraordinary is that it is given by an eleven year old at a TEDx event. This is all so obvious that a child
michelle victoria 2 Comments Changing Habits, Recycling
I just came upon this great story on the many options for recycling that exist and I am talking about for more than just glass, plastic or aluminum. You will find some great suggestions for many items, from tv’s to eye glasses. As a society we have become so accustomed to throwing things away that
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Here is a story from NPR, you can even listen to it, about a group of scientists who spent two weeks in Indonesia atop a glacier. The team was led by Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. In the interview he talks about how the glacier literally melted below their
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Here are 12 facts about food that you may or may not want to know, but you really should be aware of. This comes from The Ecologist magazine that is published in the UK and the information was taken from a book called The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts by Craig Holden Feinberg and Dale
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Bill McKibben, writer, activist and founder of 350.org is on his way to the White House with students from Unity College in Maine to symbolically return one of the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter had installed back in 1979. Unfortunately Ronald Reagan had them removed when the roof was repaired in 1986 and never
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A little bit of fun… Have you seen the Sundance Channel’s Seduce Me shorts with Isabella Rossellini? You just have to love her for producing and starring in these funny, yet apparently accurate shorts on the unusual, to say the least, mating habits of salmon, ducks and other amazing creatures that we share the earth