This time of year, we all have good excuses for not exercising…it’s cold, it’s dark, I’m busy, the kids need a babysitter; it’s too much work, it’s too hard, the house is too messy, and there is no room inside to exercise, blah, blah, blah. Well, I remembered something I did a long time ago […]
Health & Fitness
BikeTown Africa: Transforming Rwanda
By guest blogger Steve Madden, vice president of creative services and digital production development at Rodale. I can’t tell you his name, but I can tell you the circumstances of his birth. His father, a Hutu, raped his mother, a Tutsi, after killing her family. During the rape, she became infected with HIV/AIDS. And […]
Too busy to cook?
By guest blogger Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD, physician (pediatrics and medical genetics), artist, serious vegetarian home cook, mother of three active school-age kids, and cofounder of Herbal Water Inc. Parents today are busier than ever, and lack of time is the reason many people give when asked why they don’t cook more often. But I don’t […]
How Big, Cheap and Fast Do We Want to Be?
By guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics, www.gustorganics.com, the world’s first certified organic restaurant, and one of the greenest and most progressive restaurants on the planet. We live in the most powerful country in the world. However, America’s food system is probably one of the weakest on earth. Why is that? We […]
Body Oil Giveaway: To Replenish Inside and Out
By guest blogger Joshua Onysko, CEO and founder of Pangea Organics. Winter means a lot of different things to many of us: skiing, the holidays, shoveling, family gatherings…but many of us have one thing in common: dry skin, the winter itch. That dry skin is more prevalent in the winter months usually can be attributed […]
Why I Love Yoga
I don’t talk about yoga that much…maybe because it’s a little too important to me. I don’t actually think I’d be able to do everything I do without it. And I’d certainly be a lot more miserable—physically, mentally, and spiritually. And that’s the thing about yoga—even if you don’t intend it to, it deeply impacts […]
Avoid Household Toxins: Take Action!
By guest blogger Andy Igrejas, national campaign director of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition These days, more of us are thinking about what lurks in the manufactured products in our lives. From baby bottles made with bisphenol-A (BPA) to carpets containing formaldehyde, dangerous chemicals are all around us. Lest we think that these chemicals […]
Green Cleaning Parties
By guest blogger Cassidy Randall. Cassidy coordinates efforts to mobilize and engage women at Women’s Voices for the Earth. She developed the Green Cleaning Action Kit, Disinfectants Horror Show, and other engagement tools, and organizes WVE’s Green Cleaning Party campaign. There’s a new wave of incredibly effective activism sweeping the nation. Maybe you’ve heard of […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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