by guest blogger Coach Mark Smallwood. Six things to say to friends, family, and total strangers when they tell you organics can’t feed the world
Environment
8 Ways to Avoid Harmful Chemicals
by guest blogger Robin Dodson ,ScD. At the Silent Spring Institute, we recently did a study, called the Household Exposure Study, and the number of chemicals we are exposed to every day is astounding. While it’s difficult to avoid all of the potentially harmful chemicals in everyday products, there are steps you can take to choose safer products and reduce your exposure.
Doing Laundry in a Costa Rican
Cloud Forest
by guest blogger Wendy Gordon. You would think that Jim Damalas, president of the Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Hotel, would have much more to share with us about his boutique mountain inn. But all he wanted to talk about was the laundry, or more precisely, the laundry water.
What Americans Get from Fracking
by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum. Americans get a lot out of the new technological process called hydrofracking (fracking)—but most of what we get, we absolutely don’t want.
5 Simple Ways to Live Greener
by guest blogger Julie Kerr Gines. Here are 5 easy things you can start doing right now to make your life more sustainable and environmentally friendly. How many of them are you already doing?
Five Steps for Healthier Indoor Air
by guest blogger Dr. Marilyn Black. The air you’re breathing in your home can be two to five times more polluted than the air outdoors. But there are steps you can take to clean you indoor air and keep it clean.
Role of a Lifetime: Meryl Streep as Eco-Activist Mom
by guest blogger Wendy Gordon. The actress is world-renowned for her ability to transform herself into a character. But few know her as I do, in her real-life role as a transformational environmental health activist.
On the Future of Food
The older I get, and the more I believe in the power of nature and the universe, the more magic happens (fueled significantly by Hard Work). Case in point: a little book we just published called The Prince’s Speech—On the Future of Food.
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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