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Global Water Resources: Where We Get It & What We Do With It (Infographic)

February 8, 2012

Where do we get our water? What do we use it for? The answers may surprise you, and clarify why we need to focus even more on conserving our precious water resources.
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BPA-Free: Baby Gourmet Organic Baby Food

February 6, 2012

In an ideal world, parents would have time to make their infant’s and toddler’s baby food from scratch.  Actually, it’s not that hard to do if you eat whole foods yourself.  Baby can eat what you eat if you follow a simple diet; however, we don’t live in an ideal world. Even stay-at-home parents need [...]

BPA-Free: Baby Gourmet Organic Baby Food is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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Grow Your Own Vegetables With Smart Gardener – Interview Part I

February 6, 2012

Smart Gardener is an internet based productivity tool that enables enthusiastic gardeners to easily design, grow and harvest a successful organic vegetable garden.

With all the ambiquity surrounding food these days, it seems most of the food we eat is manufactured not grown, leading us to question -where does our food really come from? In most cases, there is one conlcusion: to truly have complete control on what we eat- we need to grow our own food.

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A Few Environmentally-Friendly Tips For The Big Game

February 3, 2012

Image by Triple Tri / Creative Commons The big game is almost here and if you are any kind of football fan you’ve probably already figured out who you are watching the game with, where you are going to watch … Continue reading →

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Green Game Plan For Your Super Bowl Party

January 29, 2012

As a huge Patriots fan, I’m so psyched for Superbowl XLVI and it is even better because the Patriots are playing the Giants, my in-laws’ team to whom the Patriots lost to in Superbowl XLII.

Earlier this week, the NFL and the Indianapolis Hosts too…

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Edible Weeds: 7 Recipes for Stinging Nettle (that aren’t Soup or Tea)

January 25, 2012

Eating stinging nettles – doesn’t that hurt? No, and furthermore, this “weed” is incredibly versatile… you can use it for traditional soups and tea, or recipes from a wide variety of culinary traditions.
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Aflatoxin: A Toxic Potential of Climate Change

January 24, 2012

One of the most toxic and carcinogenic threats in the human food supply is a natural chemical called “aflatoxin”; the chance that it will contaminate a crop is enhanced by drought and/or insect damage – both conditions expected to be more common with the onset of climate change.
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Corporations Can Legally Dump Toxic Waste in Fertilizers

January 12, 2012

Why would anyone choose organic gardening? Besides being a lot healthier, it is a whole lot cheaper than the alternative. Unfortunately there are a handful of very powerful multi national corporations that don’t want you to know that and they have politicians on both sides in their pocket. Now why is that so important to them? Their goal is to keep you ignorant and enslaved to having to repurchase their seeds, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. In spite of the fact that it is destroying our environment, altering our DNA and propagating and even creating new disease.

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Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks

January 11, 2012

2011′s grain harvest was massive: the largest ever. Given the number of lean years prior to it, though, the grain produced will not replenish global stocks… and, thus, stabilize food prices.
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Simple Reasons to Start a Vegetable Garden

January 10, 2012

  Image by SteveR / Creative Commons We are very fortunate to live in a time where we have nearly instant access to food of all kinds. That is why when I talk about starting a vegetable garden and growing … Continue reading →

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