michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Climate Change
This Saturday, October 24, has been declared the International Day of Climate Action. Its purpose is for people around the world to show their support for a reduction in carbon emissions to slow global warming. This is an opportunity to let our leaders know that we are serious about action being taken on the issues
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Climate Change, Farmers Markets, Industrial food practices, Investing, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Businesses
Friends of Slow Money are at it….. Are you fighting to protect the environment? Mitigate climate change? Save the oceans? End oil dependency? Improve health? Improve food systems? Preserve freedom? Imagine if your $5 contribution (coupled with thousands of others) could launch a whole new movement — one that fixes our food system, empowers social
michelle victoria No Comment Climate Change, Sustainable Businesses
The EPA finally took some serious steps last week to curtail global warming with a proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions but it looks as if the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the world’s largest business federation with 3 million businesses as members) cannot recognize that this is good for business, not to mention the environment.
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“Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations”. Since I had been living in Europe for much of the last nine years I was not familiar with Bioneers until recently. For a more detailed explanation of who they are and what
michelle victoria 3 Comments Changing Habits, Recycling, Sustainable Building
I will admit I have been buying those new, strange looking light bulbs for a few years not really knowing why they were better, just that they were. Yesterday I came across a great article that explains what CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) bulbs are and how they work. Maybe you’ll read the entire article but here
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Sustainable Agriculture
Has a small organic garden on the White House lawn really made a difference? The NY Times, the Huffington Post and even You Tube to name just a few, carried the story about the new farmer’s market just a few blocks away from the White House, but does it really matter? I would have to say, yes
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Only two days after the Slow Money conference ended here in Santa Fe and the media is talking about it. What is different about Slow Money’s approach? After attending the conference and gaining a deeper understanding of the organization’s goals I would have to say it is its sincere commitment to make a fundamental change
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Businesses
Here is an interesting blog all about design, architectural and interior, as well as fashion, art and technology but from a green perspective. So much is possible we just need to recognize a new way of doing things, and it is happening before our very eyes. Creativity is often enhanced out of necessity and perhaps
michelle victoria 3 Comments Films to see, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses
Imagine that Americans who eat a typical, commercially processed American diet are probably eating some form of corn in every meal. The documentary film King Corn http://www.kingcorn.net/ (available at Netflix) shows two friends who decide to grow an acre of corn in Iowa to learn what is involved to grow it and where it
michelle victoria No Comment Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Sustainable Businesses
Sometimes the larger issues that we read about and we know are reaching a critical point seem so monumental a sense of powerlessness can overwhelm us, global warming can be one of these issues. But, the good news is there are many things that each of us can do on a daily basis to halt