The other day I was sitting around at home and I noticed that my window screens looked really dirty and dusty. I suddenly remembered being a kid, and my mom making me clean the screens. She would always pick a warm sunny day in spring and I’d get a bucket of warm sudsy water and […]
Archive | March, 2009
Natural Products Expo West, Day 2
7:53 am (Pacific Time) Oh my gosh, I’m more excited than I thought I would be. The hall isn’t open yet, but in the lobby there is an exhibit of new products, and I can’t wait to try all of them! Here’s a brief list: To-Go Ware stainless steel food containers. Kiss My Face lip […]
Natural Products Expo West, Day 1
1:21 pm (Pacific Time) I’m on my way to Anaheim, CA, for Natural Products Expo West. While changing planes in Phoenix, I was starving, since there was no food on the 5-hour flight from Philadelphia. One man was so incensed that he yelled at the flight attendant, who responded by saying: “Sir, we are a […]
Swimming Against the Tide
The other day I was describing these tough economic times as getting caught in a tide that’s going out to sea. It’s hard to swim ashore when everything around you is pulling you out to the deep, dark water. I mean, I want to spend money and buy things, but it feels like everything around […]
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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