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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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  • 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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  • Pretty for the Holidays, but less toxic with Pritti

    michelle November 15, 2010     2 Comments     Body Care Products, Changing Habits, Sustainable Businesses

    I decided to post this once again since we are getting very close to the holidays and often people who don’t usually wear nail polish might at this time of the year. Fortunately much is changing in the world of personal care and beauty products; today we have more non-toxic (or less toxic) choices. I

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  • Can you make it to Bioneers?

    michelle victoria August 29, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Energy

    The annual Bioneers Conference is coming soon, and possibly even to a city near you. Last year I attended for the first time and it was an amazing, and empowering experience. I was able to listen to Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil (and he did an evening of comedy with a friend that was hysterical), Joanna Macy,

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  • Too Clean?

    michelle victoria August 9, 2010     No Comment     Body Care Products, Changing Habits, Sustainable Businesses

    Much has been in the media about antibiotic resistant bacteria, but are we contributing to this? When we use products that supposedly kill bacteria those that do survive become stronger and eventually resistant to being killed-creating super bacteria that is more and more difficult to get rid of. Our systems also need the slight stress

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  • The Tapped Tour…helping you to get off the bottle

    michelle victoria March 28, 2010     2 Comments     Changing Habits, Films to see, Recycling

    I have declared it World Water Week…..so here is more on H2O, so that we do not forget how much this valuable resource means to all of us. Friday I had a chance to meet the women on the Tapped film tour. Stephanie Soechtig is the director of the film and producer Sarah Olson are

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