Teaching kids how to grow sprouts in a jar combines several wonderful lessons: It is a hands-on exploration of the life cycle of plants. It is a practice in patience…
Category: Sustainable Living
Chocolate and Child Slavery 2013 Update
The prevalence of human trafficking, child slavery, and abusive labor practices in the cacao industry is surprisingly under-reported. With the average US citizen eating over 11lbs of chocolate (that’s about…
Pelvic Floor Exercises for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Everyday Life
Having a healthy pelvic floor, doing some pelvic floor exercises, and getting the pelvic floor ready for pregnancy and childbirth, as well as postpartum recovery is a remarkably overlooked aspect…
Urban Foraging and Wild Edibles: New Feature
A quick examination of an unused former flower bed at my mom’s house revealed a treasure trove of wild edibles – edible weeds, if you will. The rest of…
Caprese Salad
This is a fast and easy go-to dish for all those summer BBQs and pot-lucks. Four ingredients, this nutritious vegan Caprese Salad looks totally classy but takes almost no…
Online Summer Book Club and Blog Hop
What better way to keep the creativity flowing this summer than with an online book club / blog hop / reading group?? Reading is always an important part of my life,…
Make Your Own Homemade Lip Balms
Today is a very special treat: a guest post by the amazing Hilda Forss. Hilda Forss is a freelance graphic designer currently based in Sweden. In her spare time, she…
Recycled Hearts: Greening Valentine’s Day
Embracing a spirit of love – on Valentine’s Day or any other day – should mean more than paper hearts and grocery store flowers. Here are a few simple…
Sustainable Holidays: Wrapping Paper and Holiday Card Alternatives
Charlie Brown worried about the shallow consumerism of the holidays, but he never mentioned one of the most egregious side effects of that consumerism: massive holiday waste. Massive easily preventable…
Meat and Protein: Myths, Misconceptions, and Unnecessary Risks
You are eating too much protein. I can say this confidently because I know that the vast majority of us, US Americans in particular, are getting too much protein. If…