6 Eco-friendly Ways to Upcycle Coffee Grounds
Many of us rely on our morning cup of coffee to get the day started. These valuable grounds however, often get thrown in the trash. However, those old grounds can be used for a variety of creative, all-natural functions. Before tossing your grounds, consider the following uses: Gardening Flowers such as azaleas, roses, hydrangeas, rhododendrons and camellias do very well with some...
People Power vs. Corporate Greed – How One City is Taking Control of Their Own Electricity
The city of Boulder, Colorado is setting an important precedent for our entire nation - by localizing energy for the purpose of drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The New Era Colorado Foundation is a grassroots organization that won a huge victory in 2011. The group defeated Xcel Energy, Boulder's dominant energy corporation, in a vote that resulted in the approval...
Stop Paying Attention to Calories, Really
For years you’ve probably heard that the secret to a healthy body was to count calories. Calorie counts are on everything now including most restaurant menus. But is all of this number crunching really worth the effort? The answer: No! And for two very important reasons. 1. Calorie Counting Won’t Make You Thin. Losing or gaining weight really isn’t that complicated...
9 Foods and Herbs that WIPE Away Aging
"You don't get to choose whether you age or not but you can choose how well you age" Longevity is big business in America today – the dream that anything is possible, even reversing our internal clocks, drives millions of people to seek out sometimes drastic measures to reduce the signs of aging. Plastic surgery, botox and other invasive procedures...
Is a Tax on Sugary Beverages Really Effective?
A new study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics has found that taxing sugary beverages in the United States could reduce the calorie intake from these beverages. However, additional outcomes showed that this strategy was not working. Researchers from Duke University, RTI International and the U.S. Department of Agriculture performed this joint study, which examined the effects of...
Infant Motrin and Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls Recalled: Manufacturing Mishaps Common
Johnson & Johnson have recalled 200,000 bottles of Motrin Infant formula because they may contain small particles of plastic that the McNeil Unit are saying came from a third party manufacturing process. The company warns parents that the Motrin may contain pieces of a plastic that are used to make Teflon coating. While there have been no injuries or illnesses...
$3.99 Gets You This: Top 3 “Real” Meal Deals instead of KFC, McDonalds and Taco Bell
“A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.” ― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal We are a fast food nation, there...
Shocking Report: 23,000 Americans Die Each Year From Poor Antibiotic Stewardship
Living in America avails us certain luxuries. Among these are clean water, food, knowledge, education and access to infection-fighting medicines. How can it be that we have such luxuries yet we are a nation with so many crippling health burdens? How do 23,000 people die each year from infections that cannot be treated with the medicine we have come...
Pink Slime Back in the News and the School Lunchroom
Schools across the country have only been in session a few weeks and already the controversy over lunch programs has begun. You may recall last year’s “pink slime” scandal in which the controversial lean finely textured beef (LFTB) was found to have been unknowingly served up to children across the country in school lunches for years. After cries of outrage...
3 Reasons to Eat Seasonally
There’s a reason certain foods are called “comfort food.” Certain dishes remind us of certain periods in our lives or times of the year. Who doesn’t have a soft spot for apple-inspired treats in the fall, fresh-picked berries in the summer or a hardy stew just bursting with winter root vegetables? There’s something just not right about blueberries in January,...
