michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Transportation
I am really excited I just bought a bike! I had not ridden one in more than a decade (actually almost two), except for once when I was house sitting and jumped on a friends bike thinking that I could just hop on and ride through town…it was pretty scary and didn’t last too long.
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices, School Lunches
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution now has proof that good, “real”, food makes for healthier (did we even need to wonder?) kids and improved learning. Jamie Oliver’s work changing school lunches is nothing new for him. What he is attempting to do in W. Virginia he started in 2004 in England with his Feed Me Better program.
michelle No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
I am out of town and literally just got out of the shower… While I was showering I looked over at the plastic shower curtain and thought to myself, I wonder how many chemicals are being released while I shower? Then I decided that I needed to repost this story about chemicals. We need to
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Recipes
This is my basic scone recipe. I have been using it more or less in this form ever since I had an organic coffee house in Sedona, Arizona in the early 90’s. It is not the excessively sweet, made with white flour version that you might have gotten used to in the last few years as they
michelle victoria 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
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Films to see, Recycling
Monday was World Water Day, an international observance that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). But water is such an increasingly important issue I felt that it deserved more than just one day and my feelings are shared by many. Tapped is a film about the current state
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 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