by guest blogger Beth Terry. Before June of 2007, I lived the plastic lifestyle. Fast-forward to today. For the past five years, I’ve been living with almost no new plastic. How could a convenience addict like me go from generating huge trash bags of the stuff each week to just one small grocery bagful in all of 2011? It’s a long story that starts with a photograph.
Environment
Create an Edible Ecosystem: No Fertilizer or Pest Control Needed
by guest blogger Kristina Jones. The idea behind an “edible ecosystem” garden is that it’s a different but complementary approach to organic farming that mimics a natural ecosystem, like a forest, but with food plants instead of trees and shrubs. Nobody fertilizes the forest or sprays pesticides, but the oaks still make gazillions of acorns. So we’re learning to garden like a forest.
The Future of Agriculture:
Triple-Bottom-Line Beauty
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez. Finally, a business model that is not only centered on profits, but also on social and environmental impacts. It’s a triple-bottom-line business model: profit-driven, people-focused, and environmentally responsible. And it’s amazingly successful.
What Are We Going to Tell Them?
by guest blogger Coach Mark Smallwood. The simplest of our children’s (and their children’s) basic human needs are being threatened every day. What are we going to tell them?
Urban Air Pollutant Linked to Obesity
by guest blogger Wendy Gordon. A common urban air pollutant, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs for short, could be playing in our obesity epidemic. PAHs are released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, and other organic substances.
10 Ways to Spring-Clean
GMOs Out of Your Home
by guest blogger Courtney Pineau. When you look a little closer, you often find that your food contains ingredients with unwanted genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If you are ready to spring-clean GMOs out of your diet, here are 10 easy steps to help you give them the boot
Romancing Earth Day
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. This Sunday marks the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, which will probably be commemorated by a bunch of depressing articles about global warming. But celebrating and loving the earth doesn’t have to be a chore. It can be a pleasure. Here are my 5 tips for a romantic earth day.
The Importance of Trees
by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum. Trees have value beyond measure. Every aspect of our lives is touched and enhanced by trees. Here are just a few reasons why trees are so important. Help spread the word for Earth Day.
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.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
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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