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Easy Pureed Seasonal Vegetable Soup
I like to spend an hour or so on the weekends making soup for the week. It’s a meditative process that helps the entire week go more smoothly. A little time invested means you will have soup to take to work for lunches and soup to enjoy for dinner...
Photoshopping, the New Alternative to Aging Naturally
They chow down the same foods we healthy middle-aged women eat: Quinoa, lean proteins, fresh organic produce, water from chic reusable Sigg bottles. They drive hybrids and raise funds for good causes, shun the direct sun, and sometimes even wear sec...
Dust Yourself Off with 6 Great Organic & Natural Powders
Traditionally, a finishing powder is an invisible way to set makeup. It can reduce shine while minimizing the look of lines, imperfections, and pores. People can wear it over makeup or on bare, moisturized skin. Some use a translucent loose powder...
Lisa Jervis’s New Cookbook: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
An obstacle people often face when trying to eat a healthy, green, reasonably priced diet is a lack of cooking skills. Cookbooks don’t always help. Most food authors attempt to teach people how to cook real food (as opposed to opening packages...
Leftover Turkey? Make a Pot Pie with Olive Oil Pastry Crust
Using up all your leftovers is a green thing to do, and this recipe will take care of all that turkey. You likely have some cream and some vegetables leftover from the holiday, too. If you don’t have the vegetables called for, use what you do have...
Greening Thanksgiving with a Doubly Good Recipe for Taters, and More!
Thanksgiving can be either a gluttonous extravagance, or one of the greenest holiday feasts. Here’s why: One of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gasses is livestock production. Turkey is faster growing than cows, so it’s more efficient fro...
The New and Improved USDA Supports Local, Sustainable Food
I never thought I’d become a Facebook fan of a government agency, but I’m now a fan of the USDA and am also following the agency’s Twitter. What’s going on here? For one thing, the USDA has done more to reinvent itself in the last tw...
8 Best Organic Eye Treatments for Dark Circles, Puffiness and Fine Lines
Eyes are the windows to the soul, right? Unfortunately, they can also be portals to everyday stress and strain. For many of us, the second we feel a tinge of stress, anxiety, or fatigue, it’s immediately plastered all over our eyes like a mask. I...
Quick and Delicious Mujaddara Recipe
Though I’m an omnivore, I eat vegetarian (or even vegan) most of the time, so that I can afford to buy the most sustainable, delicious, pasture raised meat and poultry from local family farms. For protein, I rely on legumes and eggs. I’m going t...
A Global Analysis: Is Biotechnology Really the Only Way to Solve Hunger?
As the World Summit on Food Security convenes in Rome this week, world leaders will debate how best to combat worsening worldwide hunger and escalating food prices. Biotechnology will most certainly be on the table. As a polarizing subject, biotechn...
The Complete Protein Dessert: Delicious Quinoa Spice Cake
With all the 8 essential amino acids your body needs, quinoa is an impressive complete protein. Although it has only recently made its way onto the menus of trendy fare here in the US, its history dates all the way back to 3,000 B.C.E., where it was...
Best Organic Deodorants (That Actually Work)
Life is good. We’re eating healthier, exercising more and we remember to bring our reusable bags to the grocery store. But do you feel as if something is missing? Do you ever wake in the middle of the night, wondering what final piece of the green...
Marketing FAIL: The Cocoa Krispies Immunity Boost
‘Tis the (cold and flu) season, and it’s time to stock up on immune boosting foods like oranges, garlic and Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies. Yes, that’s right. Kellogg’s is claiming that all the vitamins they’ve sprinkle...
Oatmeal Harvest Cookies
I recently read somewhere that chocolate chip cookies are the top cookies in America. Now, I used to be in the “It’s not a cookie unless it’s a chocolate chip cookie” camp, but I’ve come around. Oatmeal cookies are so much healthier and th...
Kaiser Permanente: Save Trees and Thrive
Kaiser Permanente is prescribing big doses of sustainability in the sixth season of its $50 million Thrive ad campaign. Two new ads – Emerald Cities and Connected – reinforce the health care provider’s commitment to the planet by d...
Getting Purelled: The New Fixation of an Ailing Nation
Getting Purelled is the growing phenomenon of sanitizing one’s germ-infested mitts with the alcohol-based, Johnson & Johnson product known as Purell. What’s in the name, William Safire students might ask? Pure, I imagine, denotes the...
Lentil Soup with Spinach and Lemon
It’s soup weather again. High protein, tasty lentils make an eco-friendly and satisfying meatless meal. Plenty of vegetables make this soup balanced. And lentils don’t take long to cook, so this can even work as a weeknight dinner. The lemon and...
Halloween Hangover? 5 Tips to Avoid the Scary Stuff and Stay Healthy
Mmmm. CANDY! Just smell the bowl full of those darling, little bars of CANDY. Just look at those chewy bites of CANDY! Now, walk away. That’s right. Walk away and no one will get hurt. Halloween is really one of the hardest nights to stay disc...
The Stories (and Money) Behind 10 of Your Favorite Organic and Natural Brands
I’ll never forget the time I first tried an Odwalla tangerine juice. It was back when tangerine juice was a seasonal offering, during a short window of time in January and February. I’d just finished a long uphill walk on an unusually warm winte...
From Cancer Screenings to How the Brain Remembers, Institute of Medicine Adds New Members
Being elected into The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is considered one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine. It recognizes those who’ve demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Earlier this mo...
Can Cooking a Meal a Day Keep Depression Away?
Wanna be happy and kick Prozac to the curb? Start eating your fruits and vegetables, nuts, whole grains, beans, fish and olive oil. We’ve long known that a Mediterranean diet is good for the heart, but it turns out it’s also good for the mood. I...
Fall Minestrone with Cannellini Beans and Pounded Parsley Pesto
It’s already blustery and rainy in Northern California so it’s time to break out the cold weather recipes. Here’s a healthy, easy, customizable vegetarian or vegan minestrone that allows you to use whatever vegetables you have on hand. Beans m...
Pucker Up for the Best Organic Lip Balms
What’s not to love about lip balm? In fact, a girl’s love affair with lip balm often starts very young. You were probably given a clear Chap Stick to soothe your dry lips, and naturally you pretended it was bright red lipstick. Regardless...
Here’s Your Receipt. Would You Like BPA with That?
Everyone knows that shopping can be dangerous to your bank balance. But did you know it could also be dangerous to your health? A little history. Last year, researchers in Switzerland decided to find out what happens when the flu virus is put on bank...
Seasonal Eating: Pumpkin Seed Molé Sauce
Fall is in the air and my cooking thoughts always turn to simmered meats and vegetables, with lots of warm, spicy layers of flavor. It’s also the time of year to carve our pumpkins in preparation for the ghouls and goblins. Don’t waste your pumpk...
Josie Maran on the Best Natural Makeup Trends for Fall
Green girl Josie Maran has modeled for Glamour and Sports Illustrated and she’s appeared in films like The Aviator and Van Helsing. Now she’s an eco-entrepreneur whose eponymous cosmetic line is one of the best on the market. What qualifies ...
Treating Hunger with Surplus Food Is a Tactic, Not a Solution
Since participating in and blogging about The San Francisco Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge for 7 days in September, I’m more acutely aware of hunger – both its prevalence and its unpleasantness. People have always been hungry in America, but ...
Simple Solutions to 8 Common Beauty Dilemmas
It would be grand to just roll out of bed every morning looking glamorous and fresh, but it requires serious maintenance to stay sexy. Here are eight easy and eco-friendly tricks for dealing with some of the most frustrating beauty predicaments. Tire...
5 Natural Ways to Fight the Flu
The flu is already spreading like a Malibu wildfire in my Bay Area community with dozens of kids out the first few weeks of school and contaminated parents unable to play nurse. It’s going to happen, no way of avoiding it all together, but the...
Seasonal Eating from the Farmers’ Market: Baked Apples Stuffed with Figs, Honey & Almonds
Arkansas Black, Honeycrisp, Gravenstein, Braeburn, Northern Spy, McIntosh, Gala, Empire, Winesap. It’s heaven for apple lovers this time of year. The great thing about apples is that different varieties grow all over the country – from Calif...
