It started with a mysterious email from Eric Schlosser, who wrote the forward to my book Organic Manifesto. For security reasons, I couldn’t tell anyone anything until a few days beforehand. I just had to be in Georgetown, Washington, DC, on May 4th. I had to cancel a long-planned lunch with some romance writers—but if […]
Inspiration
The Power of Emotional Healing
Y’all know me…I am quick to blame environmental toxic chemicals for almost everything. But here’s something you may not know about me…I strongly believe in the power of emotional healing. I believe that many of our aches, pains, illnesses, and chronic problems have as much to do with our body trying to communicate emotional issues […]
The Top 10 Things I Wish Didn’t Involve Plastic
Last week, to mark the end of the Rodale.com Plastic-Free Challenge, I shared some tips for reducing the amount of plastic in your life. I personally don’t think that anything is completely evil. But I do think we overuse a lot of things without thinking too much about it—and when challenged, we often invent much […]
A Whirlwind Trip to Germany
A few months ago, I got invited to be the keynote speaker at Biofach, in Nuremberg, Germany. Biofach is the world’s largest trade fair for the global organic industry. I accepted right away—not only because of the honor of being asked, but also because we have publishing partners in Hamburg, and this would give me […]
Is Pretty Hair Possible without Plastic? Yes, with These Styling Secrets
by guest blogger Leah Zerbe, online editor at Rodalenews.com It’s only halfway through the month, and already Rodale.com’s Plastic-Free February challenge has been, well, challenging. Completely opting out of using oil- and natural gas–based materials is impossible. That’s why we’re focusing on making positive changes where we can, particularly when we’re talking single-use plastics. At […]
The Power and Persistence to Create Change
While today we celebrate Marin Luther King Jr., and the change in the world he helped create, sometimes I can’t help but feel depressed about how long the change process takes. More so than a salmon who swims upstream (who at least gets to mate at the end of the swim), our efforts to […]
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 […]
This Writing Life
I have recently heard that some people wonder whether I write my own blog posts or not. I can understand why they might think that, since I am a very busy woman with lots of responsibilities and commitments (although really, could anyone else make up some of the stuff I say?!). But what you all […]
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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