michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Sustainable Energy, Transportation
This is amazing…. The maiden voyage of a solar-powered airplane took place today in Switzerland without any problems. The plane is designed to fly day and night, without any fuel, so there are absolutely no emissions. The plane is called the Solar Impulse and it has 12,000 solar cells built into its wings. It is a
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 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 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 1 Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
Once again the Organic Consumers Association is watching out for us with their Coming Clean Campaign. They have prepared a “spreadsheet” showing a number of body care products including Dr. Bonners, Nature’s Gate Organics, Jasons Natural Cosmetics, Kiss My Face, Avalon Organics and quite a few others showing what is relatively safe and what is
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Energy
This is a great web site to learn about what it takes to build a green house that is totally modern in its use of what today’s technology, building materials and appliances have to offer while maintaining a standard of what many families are accustomed to. This is no off-the-grid, we are going to slightly
michelle victoria 1 Comment Industrial food practices, Sustainable Businesses
This is a great short quiz from Planet Green that will bring to your attention who really owns many of the largest organic food brands…You may be surprised. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing if we think a brand is independently owned and it turns out that a mega-corporation actually owns it, but it