Posts Tagged ‘Product Reviews’
NOTE: This giveaway is officially closed – congrats to Huma! - but you can still take advantage of the coupon code below until February 28, 2011!
Valentines Day is coming! Are you trying to figure out what to get your sweetie? I have a suggestion for you that won’t break the bank, you can feel good about, and unlike a piece of jewelry can be shared.
My favorite! Chocolate Caramel Crunch with Sea Salt
How about Equal Exchange Fairly Traded Chocolates?
If you hear words like “fair trade” and “equal exchange” and wonder what exactly that is, let me tell you. As defined by Etica Fair Trade.com, “Fair Trade is responsible commerce that takes into consideration the value of all people, from the producer to the consumer.The producer group agrees to provide good working conditions, safety procedures and adequate health standards for all workers.” That means that all the way from the workers in the fields picking those coffee & cacao beans to the producer bagging the beans, to everyone else involved in the production of that product until it gets to you. By choosing Equal Exchange fairly traded products, you help provide small-scale farmers the resources and opportunities they need to build a better future for their families and communities.
It’s been not quite a year since I first wrote about probiotics. I think many of you now recognize the word because probiotics are truly catching on. You may hear them being called ‘friendly bacteria’ as well.
To put it simply, it is now known that our immune system is mostly based in our digestive tract. What you do – and do not eat – affect the optimal way your digestion works as well as the strength of your immune system. When you eat poorly, you feel poorly. Your body does in fact have a tendency to get sick more often when your diet is lacking. Not to mention that exposure to pollution, second hand smoke, stress, lack of sleep, obesity and chemicals are weakening our immunity.
(This is not to criticize the parents out there of toddlers who are bringing home every little bacteria possible -and sharing the snotty love!- by hoovering up whatever they can put their mouth on. Babies and children have developing immune systems that are just going to need to go through immune system boot camp. That doesn’t mean it’s fun, I’m with you.)
Environmental factors are wrecking havoc with our health, and most importantly, the health of our children. The increase in allergies in our children is phenomenal.
I’d like you to meet Alyssa, a midwife at the Dancing Rabbit EcoVillage in Missouri. She and her family, as well as all the members of the community there, lead a life truly dedicated to doing more with less, making do with what they have, and enjoying the process of passing on their love of a simpler life to the next generation.
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A Mother, Midwife and Community member at
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
I am a mother, a midwife and a community member at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Actually, maybe I am a community member, a mother and and then midwife. Whatever the order, at any given time my life is certainly rich and full. I feel fortunate to have chosen a lifestyle that allows me to work, play and parent in a more sustainable way.
Winter is coming. I make no secret of how much I do not love being cold. I do not love the drabness that New England’s winters bring. I’m a Texas gal.
I do love the fall, though. I see it as a last chance to easily slip into comfortable clothes, work in the yard, soak up the sun. Scoot the kids outside with ease, without the battle of getting them into everything you must dress them in for snowy, cold weather. Fall, to me, is a last chance to take in vibrant colors before dreary winter grays are the norm.
Right before I left for Germany, I was in a desperate search for a laptop bag. I don’t have a cute little compact laptop, I have a 13
GreenSmart Puku bag
inch, bulky laptop. I trolled Staples, Best Buy, Target, etc, and I just wasn’t ‘feeling’ any of those bags. They weren’t me. They were either ugly or expensive. Or both.
Four days before my trip (how’s that for timing?) I was kindly offered a laptop bag to review from GreenSmart, a company that takes post consumer PET plastic water & soda bottles and turns them into all kinds of green products, such as laptop & iPad sleeves, lunchboxes, wine totes, bottle koozies, and backpacks. Why thank you, yes, I will take it and I will put it to the test.
