michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Recipes
I will admit right off the bat that I like oatmeal. I eat it quite often and for some reason I have been experimenting with variations lately-cooking has been a creative outlet for me for a long time. This morning’s oatmeal version was a winner and since it is now quite hot in Santa Fe it
michelle victoria No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits, Recycling
Mother Nature Network recently ran a story on the 10 Greenest Cities in America. Some of the top ten cities may surprise you and some of what is happening across the country may as well. I was surprised that Oakland, California has the nation’s cleanest tap water and also hydrogen powered buses. Chicago has over
michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture
California may become the first state to ban giving away plastic bags at the check out register. Many cities have already banned free plastic bags, in 2007 San Francisco became the first U.S. city to require supermarkets and large drug stores to offer customers bags made only of recyclable paper, plastic that can be turned
michelle 1 Comment Changing Habits, Recipes
With all of my talk about toxic chemicals lately I decided that I should also provide some solutions…not just warnings. This also came, I must admit, out of my own search for a natural solution to a clogged drain. In my quest I came upon a number of web sites that show ways to clean
michelle victoria No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
Chemicals are everywhere around us from the food that we eat, the products that we put on our bodies, the air that we breathe and the buildings that we live and work in. Some of these chemicals we have control over ingesting, but others are very difficult to get away from unless we make radical
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, GMO-GE Information, Los Angeles, Recipes
This was completely inspired after shopping at the Santa Monica farmers market and the amazing potatoes that I found there from the Weiser family farm. If you are lucky enough to have a local farmers market to shop at experiment with some new produce that you maybe do not usually buy or that you maybe have never
michelle victoria No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
For many years I have been using products that I really had thought were better than the mainstream “commercial” products that most of America uses. I have encouraged family and friends to switch to more natural versions of cosmetics and body care products from shampoo to moisturizers, but I see that I had been lulled
michelle victoria No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
I have not seen this CNN special on toxic chemicals, but I think that it is great we are starting to speak about them more. For many of us it seems quite clear that many chemicals that we are exposed to are harming both the environment and ourselves, but many people just do not have
michelle victoria No Comment Restaurants, Santa Fe, Sustainable Businesses
I will confess that when I saw that a burger place called Flying Star Cafe was opening in Santa Fe’s Railyard District I was less than enthusiastic and then once they opened and posted a sign out front listing “items purchased at the farmers market” I had a hunch that this was nothing more than
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits
Many women upon becoming pregnant, or planning to get pregnant, decide to take better care of their health and to become more aware of their surrounding environment. I think that this is great, whatever it takes to pay more attention to what is going in one’s body and around one is a good thing, but