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• The Christmas Fur Tree (Cute Pet Pics)

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Yesterday, we saw your cute pets match up with Dancer, Prancer, Blitzen, and Rudolph. Donned in their finest reindeer disguises, your pets looked adorable!Today’s theme: your pets and Christmas trees. Some pets are posing politely underneath the tree, while others are climbing inside or on top of it. Some are ...
  9 hours ago

• Sustain-a-Quote For Sustainable Home Design

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Designers like to have the absolute last word. One only has to watch the reality TV design shows to see how far self-assurance will get you in the design field. Wishy-washy designers don’t make the cut - Auf Wiedersehen. As more and more designers are choosing to use eco-friendly furnishings and materials, they ...
  16 hours ago

• Bring Your Living Space to Life

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  By Basia Hellwig, Yoga+The most comfortable places in our homes and towns are expressions of the way people live in them, rather than of an architect’s master plan. So observes scholar and architect Christopher Alexander, who has studied and codified these patterns of living, as expressed in rooms, buildings, and ...
  2 days ago

• Certified Frustration-Free Packaging from Amazon

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Anyone who reads my columns knows I am the last person to suggest heading out and buying gifts for the holiday season. Having said that, you’ll also note that I realize that people are people and some take longer to come around than others. So let’s say you are thinking of buying goodies for your [...]
  1 week ago

• Saving Your Part Of The Earth

  
  Healthy Lifestyle — Authority: 109
  As you sit on your beautiful and sophisticated sofa, you may think how good life can be and how clean it maybe. However, spare sometime to see the toxic junk that have placed in the corner of your basement and garage. As we all know, those small scale of wastes that you see today probably will double or can be folded ...
  1 week ago

• Give Peace A Chance: Make a Peace Wreath!

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  During this holiday season, each and every one of us has the opportunity to build peace in our lives - locally and globally. Each culture and religion celebrates the winter holidays in its own unique way. Believe me, as someone who blends together two diverse traditions, peace binds it all together.Share your ...
  1 week ago

• Toxic chemicals found in a third of children’s toys: study

  
  Eartheasy Blog — Authority: 115
  The Ecology Center, a Michigan-based nonprofit organization, and partners across the country today released the 3rd Annual Consumer Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys at www.HealthyStuff.org . Researchers tested nearly 700 popular 2009 children’s products for lead, cadmium, arsenic, PVC, and other harmful chemicals ...
  1 week ago

• The Art of Receiving

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  During a visit to Paris, my mother bought me a gift and dropped it in the mail. I didn’t receive it very well. I tore away the brown paper packaging and, at the first sign of pink, let the package fall to the floor. She had sent me a gray cotton scarf with pink flowers. [...]
  1 week ago

• Real Men Knit (with video)

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  A few years ago, one of my eight year-old male students was interviewed for a local newspaper and they asked him what was his favorite thing that he learned in school. His answer was, “Learning how to knit.” I just love teaching girls and boys to knit.For many years, knitting has been perceived [...]
  1 week ago

• Eco-Friendly, Japanese-Style Gift Wrapping

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  There are lots of ecofriendly gift wrap options out there if you’re feeling the traditional, paper wrapping thing. If you want to branch out a bit, though, you might try wrapping some gifts this year using the traditional Japanese method furoshiki. Here’s how!Rather than paper that gets tossed after a single use, ...
  1 week ago

• Homemade Picture Frames

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  We play a lot of music here. Not only are we avid listeners, my son is an accomplished musician who is always honing his craft by listening to other musicians. Before the invention of iTunes, the only option for purchasing new music was to buy CD’s in plastic cases. While some of [...]
  1 week ago

• Start an Eco Tour In Your Neighborhood and Share Your Ideas

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  This past Sunday I was lucky enough to catch the East Side Eco Tour, an open house of sorts where visitors get the chance to tour “10 forward thinking homes” in my local area. The idea, set up by Farm Feliz, a local organization thats mission is “homegrown action for a better neighborhood” is [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Kid-Friendly Dishware

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  When I first learned of the health hazards associated with plastic, I immediately wanted my children to no longer use the handy, cute plastic cups or snack bowls that made feeding them easy and safe, or so I thought.  My husband, however, was uncomfortable with the notion of letting a four year old handle glass [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Giving Up TV - Easy?

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  I tell you, killing my TV was like taking a dear desire and sending it on a rocket ship to Mars, never to be seen again. I love my reality shows, fashion programs, creative home and garden. I love my TV. My husband doesn’t. And the monthly cable bill wasn’t doing us any favors. So [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Soothing Ayurvedic Foot Massage

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  In the Ayurvedic tradition, a full-body oil massage (abhyanga) performed daily is said to work wonders for the body. But in our hectic world, abhyanga can be too time-consuming to do on a regular basis. The next best thing, says Vasant Lad, founder of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, is to massage your scalp ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 Ways To Make Indoor Air Quality Better

  
  Healthy Lifestyle — Authority: 109
  When we think of air pollution, we tend to think of the pollution and smog outdoors.  But the air in our homes, workplaces, and inside other buildings can contain more pollutants than the air outside.  Lead that gets into household dust, radon, formaldehyde, fire-retardant chemicals, and even unstable chemicals used ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Awesome Were Your Parents?

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Your parents were different before they were…well, parents. NPR recently ran an interesting story called, “My Parents Were Awesome,” highlighting a website that posted pictures of parents before they were parents. That’s it. The idea stuck in my head, but I didn’t get around to checking out the site until ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 Tips for Energy Efficient Baking

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  I don’t use my oven an awful lot, and in fact I don’t even have one at my cottage. But there is something about the holidays that demands homemade baked goods. Before you start making all those wonderful Christmas cookies and mince pies, give some thought to how to use your oven in a more [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Luggage that Lasts - and Loves the Earth

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Inevitably, it happens. The zipper no longer zips, the handle no longer handles, and you find yourself needing new luggage. Traditional luggage contains some unfriendly materials, of which the most common is the toxic plastic, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Happily, in an ever-greening world, there are luggage options that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yoga and Knitting: Knit 1, Om 1 (with pattern)

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Knitting and yoga are two ancient practices that complement each other. The relationship is easy to understand. The repetitive motion of knitting can transform the knitter into a meditative state. Knitting and yoga are both engaging practices, as they require concentration and focus. Knitting cultivates an inward ...
  2 weeks ago

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