michelle victoria No Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
I am learning more and more about the world of toxic beauty products. Who would have thought that many of these products should have warning labels on them, and they should since many contain known carcinogens. Not too long ago I went for a manicure and could not stay because the shop smelled so terrible
michelle 1 Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture
Just saw this wonderful five minute video of what is wrong, and also what is right about our food system at Civil eats (a great web site). What makes it even more extraordinary is that it is given by an eleven year old at a TEDx event. This is all so obvious that a child
michelle victoria 2 Comments Changing Habits, Recycling
I just came upon this great story on the many options for recycling that exist and I am talking about for more than just glass, plastic or aluminum. You will find some great suggestions for many items, from tv’s to eye glasses. As a society we have become so accustomed to throwing things away that
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Climate Change, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
Here are 12 facts about food that you may or may not want to know, but you really should be aware of. This comes from The Ecologist magazine that is published in the UK and the information was taken from a book called The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts by Craig Holden Feinberg and Dale
michelle victoria 2 Comments Changing Habits, Climate Change, Sustainable Energy
Bill McKibben, writer, activist and founder of 350.org is on his way to the White House with students from Unity College in Maine to symbolically return one of the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter had installed back in 1979. Unfortunately Ronald Reagan had them removed when the roof was repaired in 1986 and never
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Films to see, School Lunches, Sustainable Agriculture
I just came across this great blog that was started by a student at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and now has been taken over by another student, to encourage bringing sustainably raised food to colleges across the country. Many schools are working on this drastic change to what usually had been found on
michelle victoria 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
michelle victoria 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,
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Recipes, Sustainable Agriculture
This Sunday is the Santa Fe Farmers Market 15th annual Farm Tour. Four farms that are members of the Santa Fe Farmers Market will open their gates for all of us to come for a visit. For most of the day you can drive through beautiful Northern New Mexico, between Santa Fe and Taos, visit
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Gardens and Farms
If you have not seen the film No Impact Man and have channel Planet Green you are in luck. Saturday, August 28, at 10/9c pm No Impact Man will have its television premier. This is a great film and you can read about in another post. What I liked so much about the film is