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  • New Mexico could be the first state to pass a GMO labeling law.

    michelle January 19, 2013     No Comment     Activism, Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Santa Fe, Sustainable Agriculture

    I have not been as active here at SmartLifeways as I would have liked to be over the last months, actually for most of 2012, but it has all been for good productive work in other areas. But…now here in New Mexico a bill has been introduced to require labeling of food containing GMO’s. If

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  • The BP oil spill, Fukushima, GMO’s….

    michelle victoria April 22, 2011     No Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    We have watched the oil spilling, no gushing is more accurate from the exploded deepwater drilling rig. We cannot see what is spewing from Fukushima, but we know that it is dangerous and potentially deadly. We see these events in the news yet there is something else potentially equally dangerous, and maybe even worse, and that

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  • Millions Against Monsanto-What’s the problem with Monsanto?

    michelle victoria March 25, 2011     1 Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information

    I am in the process of organizing a last minute rally in Santa Fe, NM to participate in the Millions Against Monsanto -Rally for Our Right To Know. This is an event to bring attention to the widespread use (and rapidly growing) of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) in our food supply. These are the “Rally

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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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  • Bioneers-A Message of Engagement

    michelle victoria October 16, 2010     2 Comments     Changing Habits, Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Businesses, Sustainable Energy

    Today was the official beginning of the 21st Bioneers conference. We were welcomed by Joanne Campbell a Coast Miwok Elder, one of the indigenous people from this area for thousands of years. Sometimes I think that we forget what a young nation we are and that there are many who may be far wiser than

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  • Can we live without Monsanto?

    michelle victoria September 4, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Going GMO free…. After reading about the possible health effects of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn April Dávila did some research and then decided to go “Monsanto-free” for a month. You can read her story at Yes magazine (a great magazine if you don’t know about it). What she discovered was that this was not such

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  • Climate Change-Organic Farming is part of the Solution

    michelle victoria August 7, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    Commercial agriculture is a major  contributor to greenhouse gases, as are most elements of the current food system in the U.S. today. Our food system just doesn’t work. Not for the small towns that have disappeared as farmers move away after losing their farms. Not for the soil that is being depleted and the topsoil

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  • GMO’s stopped in other countries…why not in the U.S.?

    michelle victoria February 16, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    Here is a great piece from treehugger.com about GMOS’s. The main point of the story is why have Americans accepted the massive inclusion of genetically modified food in our food supply, without much of a fight. And I will add, why has our government been complicit in this. Last week in India the release of genetically

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  • The G20 Summit Goes Green in Pittsburgh

    michelle victoria September 23, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building

    A two day G20 summit, not very long considering how many critical issues are at hand, will convene tomorrow in PIttsburgh. I had no idea but Pittsburgh is being hailed as one of the greenest urban centers in the U.S. Could this be? transformed from the city of steel, to the city of green. Sounds

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  • Learn more about the food you are eating.

    michelle victoria August 31, 2009     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Films to see, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Did you know that 90% of all GMOs (genetically modified organisms) come from Monsanto? DId you also know that Monsanto brought us: Agent Orange, PCB’s and rBGH. Is this the company we want to have controlling much of our food supply? 70% of all food in US commercial markets have bio-engineered ingredients. Soybeans are one

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