What better combination than sweet potatoes, cilantro, jalapeno’s, and black beans? This soup, adapted from the wonderful cookbook The Ethnic Vegetarian, by Angela Shelf Medearis –a cookbook with diverse recipes from Africa, the Carribbean, and …

Forrest is a frontier in the Mountain View/Palo Alto Ca. area. He lives and works green and consequently has shared his wisdom as much as possible. I am merely trying to catch up to part …

There is nothing like the heat to ripen odors. That old dog’s bed that hasn’t been washed in half a year suddenly reeks, as does the nearby carpet. The  kitchen garbage disposal might begin to …

Your flooring choices are fundamental to how healthy your home is. If your home is 2,000 square feet, then you have 2,000 square foot of flooring, too. A healthy floor will take you a long …

You can revitalize water with a technique that uses specific crystals selected for this purpose because of their energetic qualities.
Crystals store vibrations, but they also hold micro-information. Each variety of crystal has its own vibratory …

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GasLAND documentary by Josh Fox premiered on HBO on June 21st, 2010. This feature documentary debut won the 2010 Sundance Special Jury Prize, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Artistic Vision award, the Audience Award …

I loved delving into learning about healing herbs when I was writing Better Basics for the Home. What a gift to us from the herbal world, and what a loss for us that so few …

At the ocean or wishing you were there? Make a seaweed soak bath with fresh or dried seaweed and bring healing to your organs (especially your thyroid and adrenals), detox to your cells, and provide …

The citrus tree is a small evergreen tree that can produce as many as 1,500 lemons a year.
Much of lemon’s gift is that it is an acid, even more, it is an alpha-hydroxy acid, making …