Dose of Reality: Engagements
To produce that single ounce, miners have to quarry hundreds of tons of rock, which are then doused in a liquid cyanide solution to separate the gold. Payal Sampat, the campaign director for Earthworks, the mining watchdog, told The Independent: “Gold mining is arguably the world’s dirtiest and most polluting…
Attack Winter Chest Colds with These Herbs & Home Remedies
Image courtesy of Flickr user Freeparking: “The Sick Child” by Munch A couple weeks ago, upon returning from Christmas vacation and having caught a chest cold from a family member, I started to get that old familiar feeling: the onset of bronchitis. Ever since I first got it a few…
Fight Off Colds with These Natural Remedies & Preventative Strategies
If you don’t have a cold yet, you probably will by the new year. It’s certainly hard to avoid the dreaded sniffles, sneezes, congestion and headaches that come along with the common cold during the holiday season when you’re constantly in contact with other people, in indoor areas with poor…
McCain Rails Against ‘Liberal Feminist Agenda’, But His Record Speaks for Itself
“They need education and training”. That was John McCain’s practice of charging rape victims up to $1,200 for evidence kits. She, who would deny 10-year-old barely pubescent incest victims complaining at rallies that he and Palin are under attack by the “Feminist Left”, attributing his downslide in the polls to…
Sunlight for Breastfed Babes
An interesting piece in the NY Times today discusses Vitamin D deficiency in babies and toddlers. According to the article, many breastfed children are lacking the nutrient due to many mothers’ insufficient quantity of Vit D in their breastmilk. Additionally, children are not exposed to the sun as they once…
Eco Chick "Best Green Health and Beauty on the Web"
Nigel’s Eco Store has honored us in their recent “Green Web Awards 2008” as one of the best sites for health and beauty! We are especially excited after taking a look at the judges’ panel, which is packed full of green luminaries. Thanks for the recognition, Nigel’s!
Green MUA? Futurenatural's Emma Pezzack
Futurenatural’s Emma Pezzack Though it may feel like makeup is a necessity when you wake up exhausted, hung over or both, in reality our little pots and tubes of color are extravagances. And like four-dollar coffees, frosted-to-death cupcakes and doggie sweaters, these little indulgences are what makes life fun. But…
Help Fight Chocolate Extinction!
First the honeybees (and duh, the honey) and now chocolate is on the decline? Say it ain’t so!! According to this CNN article on the subject of chocolate extinction, “Yields are declining all across the cocoa plantations of West Africa, where two thirds of the world’s supply is grown, as…
Cell Towers and Health Effects: Cellular Disservice?
This past week a local in my town contacted me to see if I would be interested in discussing the issues surrounding a potential cellular tower that would be constructed within one mile of my house. Some of us from the town had the chance to voice our concerns to…
Green Schools 101
Green schools are inarguably the right decision for our children and the environment. Though up-front costs are higher, green buildings save enough in operation and maintenance expenses to pay for their original construction in a matter of months. The money saved on energy bills (the annual energy savings from a…
