The last place you will find me on New Year’s Eve is at a party drinking champagne or watching fireworks (although one year I did watch the fireworks on the beach in Hawaii, and it was kind of fun). For a “woman of action” such as myself, New Year’s Eve and Day are the most […]
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A Visit to My Kitchen: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau from The Kathleen Show
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau is in my kitchen today, talking about her warm and gooey food love, a massive media collection of great books and good music, and the current event she’s following most closely. Kathleen is a mom, filmmaker, and radio show host. She left a 10-year career as a drug sales representative to pursue film. […]
Spread Joy, Not Trash: Greener Holiday Wrapping Options
By guest blogger Anna Hackman. Anna is a sustainability consultant, helping businesses to green their profits, and holds a LEED (Leadership in Environmental Design) AP certification. She is also the editor of Green Talk, an eclectic green-living website with topics including green living, green building, the 3Rs, green business, and organic gardening. She has visited the Rodale Farm and […]
How to Launch a Website in 5 Easy Steps
by guest blogger Amanda Junker, founding editor of Fitbie.com and Senior Editor with the Creative Services group at Rodale Inc. You may have heard that there’s a new place to get healthy on the Web, and Rodale is the company behind it. Fitbie is a diet and fitness destination that features useful, inspirational, and actionable […]
Long Live Pee-Wee Herman
Many, many years ago, in a land far away (actually, the next town over), my then-fiancé (now husband) and my 8-year-old daughter, and I would wake up on Saturday mornings looking forward to watching Pee-Wee’s Playhouse on TV. When the show came on we would sit on our old couch together and all laugh—each enjoying […]
Why I Can’t Live without Coffee
See the results from Rodale.com’s organic coffee taste test here! Whenever I give a speech and talk about local versus organic, I joke about how, being from Pennsylvania, I am totally against local when it comes to my coffee. Here’s the truth: I’M NOT JOKING! Don’t get between me and my coffee, or you might […]
The Art of Living in Balance, Part 1
People often ask me how I do it, how I do it “all.” By day, I’m CEO of a media company. I’m on more boards than I can recite in one breath. I have three girls between the ages of 28 (just married) and 4. And I blog, cook, blog about cooking and stuff like […]
I’m Done with Nail Polish!
I haven’t had my nails polished in probably a decade. Oh, I’ve had delightful non-polish mani-pedi’s, but I’ve avoided the polish out of principle. But this past weekend was my daughter’s wedding, and I thought, “Oh, what the heck, I’ll go for it.” And while I don’t necessarily regret it, I realize that I am […]
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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