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3 DIY Nontoxic Garden Pest Sprays
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 8:04 | View Comments
3 DIY Nontoxic Garden Pest Sprays

A few bugs won’t hurt most plants. Sometimes simple solutions for less toxic living are there if you just think long enough. Hosing bugs off a plant is often all that is needed.
There are many …

GreenGuard Certification – Guide for Interior Products
Saturday, 17 Sep, 2011 – 3:45 | View Comments
GreenGuard Certification – Guide for Interior Products

Fall is finally on its way, which means gradually, more time will be spent indoors. People
already spend, on average, almost 90% of their time inside. Most would assume the
outdoors is where you are at risk …

Spiritual Solutions #23: Law of Least Effort, Healthy Produce
Thursday, 13 Jan, 2011 – 16:06 | View Comments
Spiritual Solutions #23:  Law of Least Effort, Healthy Produce

by Deepak Chopra and Annie B. Bond
Law of Least Effort
When you struggle against this moment, instead of knowing that this moment is as it should be, you’re actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you …

Spiritual Solutions #21: Balance Food, Exercise
Thursday, 30 Dec, 2010 – 16:23 | View Comments
Spiritual Solutions #21:  Balance Food, Exercise

By Deepak Chopra and Annie Bond
Balance With Exercise
Before you decide that hard work is the way to prevent aging, consider that “work” as defined by physics is not synonymous with sweat and strain. Exercise has …

Red Wine Stains – Easy Way to Remove
Sunday, 26 Dec, 2010 – 12:59 | View Comments
Red Wine Stains – Easy Way to Remove

There you are with your best linen tablecloth (a family heirloom) on the dining room for an elegant holiday dinner, and someone spills red wine. As you see the wine spread out through the fiber …

Easy Way to Get Labels Off
Thursday, 23 Dec, 2010 – 10:35 | View Comments
Easy Way to Get Labels Off

Trying to remove clamshell packaging can cause rage attacks, and so can trying to get price labels off of housewares. Who hasn’t had trouble removing labels from new glasses, plates, or plastic containers? Getting labels …

Chemo and the Chakras
Monday, 8 Nov, 2010 – 18:46 | View Comments
Chemo and the Chakras

If you have witnessed or experienced the suffering caused by chemotherapy, you know the horror of a treatment that all but kills even as it saves. Chemotherapy just about disconnects a person from their body, …

Top White Sink Solution? – Green Quest #6
Thursday, 4 Nov, 2010 – 14:37 | View Comments
Top White Sink Solution? – Green Quest #6

If you have a white porcelain sink and tub, the chances are that you have wanted to find a way to whiten them without using bleach, the out-of-fashion standby.
What is the matter with chlorine bleach? …

How to Smudge to Clear the Air
Thursday, 4 Nov, 2010 – 9:55 | View Comments
How to Smudge to Clear the Air

The ritual of smudging to clear out old energy and cleanse and purify your space is one that has been used by indigenous peoples for millennia.
The herbs used to make smudge sticks are usually …

Mice Solution? Green Quest #5
Thursday, 28 Oct, 2010 – 16:09 | View Comments
Mice Solution?  Green Quest #5

I opened up my garden compost barrel the other day to discover about eight mice inside! This experience prompted a lively FaceBook discussion about the safest ways to get rid of mice. I’ve battled the …