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Eating lower on the food chain means moving down a few links and becoming more of an herbivore, less of a carnivore.
Generally, the smallest species are at the bottom of the food chain, while larger …
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Recycling Lies Eco-Fail
My friend has a girlfriend that he desperately wants to impress. One day when she was over at his house she asked where the recycling was so she could toss out her soda can; he told her just to throw it in the garbage and that it all got sorted out later. Eco-fail!
–Anonymous
Starting a few days ago there has been a smell in my second floor home office that was beginning to drive me seriously crazy. I moved my office into this room a week or …
Dear Annie,
I am experimenting with aromatherapy and feel it is important to use pure essential oils. How do I tell if an oil is pure?
–Sally M., IL
Dear Sally,
It is good that you are paying attention …
I am currently in the process of furnishing a new apartment and get to buy my own kitchen utensils for the first time after years of trying (with little success) to get my parents to …
Dear Annie,
I’d rather not wash all of our sweaters and comforters, but they have a stale smell. What do you suggest?–Sally, WI
Dear Sally,
There is nothing like a good shake, sun, and lots of fresh air …
Spiritual teacher Adyashanti observes that learning to feel appreciation is a hallmark of a more enlightened mind. He urges us to follow the vibrant energy in our meditations, and bit by bit we will become …
Frequent readers of mine know that I love baths. I have written a few eBooks to prove it. Baths are part of my routine so much that I hardly remember when I had my last …
Used for a main course or appetizer, making this pate will give you an introduction to cooking raw and living foods. Given that enzymes in fresh food are killed by cooking (116F), the idea of …
Melissa Breyer, one of my co-authors on True Food, introduced us to white whole-wheat flour. By using this flour she notes that one can have wholesome nutrition without the heaviness of the typical “whole wheat” …
Biocides such as fungicides, are included in paint as a preservative and to kill mold, and in wood stains to kill insects.
Milk paint and whitewash have a high alkaline content which makes them naturally …
Distracted by my life for four or five days in mid-January, I neglected to feed the birds and was horrified at how long it took for them to come back after I started up again. …
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Tenacious Teflon Eco-Fail
Off to buy a good saute pan, I was in Home Goods today, and while browsing around I was astonished and completely dismayed to see that 95 percent of the cookware had Teflon coating! What …
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Dalai Lama’s Hope for the Future
In general, I feel optimistic about the future. The rapid changes in our attitude toward the earth are also a source of hope. As recently as a decade ago, we thoughtlessly devoured the resources of …
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Rose Quartz Heart Chakra Healer
Give rose quartz as a special Valentine’s gift to loved ones. Rose quartz is known as the heart chakra stone, and it is especially nice to give a rose quartz stone that has been …
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Vinegar - Green Cleaning 101
You can’t make this stuff up: I was on a plane flying home to upstate New York from Los Angeles, and a nice Australian man sat down next to me who happened to be …
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