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O!burger, located in West Hollywood, is the first burger joint in the Los Angeles area serving only 100% certified organic food. Everything from the buns, the sauce, vegetables, meat, ketchup, mustard, fries and salad dressing is organic.
O!burger's intent is to be as eco-friendly as possible. They use packaging that is made from renewable resources that are recyclable, compostable and/or biodegradable. Their cleaning products are green and non-toxic.
Making this video was a lot of fun.O!burger, located in West Hollywood, is the first burger joint in the Los Angeles area... more
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By downloading ShopSavvy, a free smartphone application, consumers can scan the GS1 barcode and instantly link with the grower’s profile, website, production practices and a map of the farm -- right at the point of purchase.
http://www.thegrower.org/readnews.php?id=7p1t2o4x6k5tBy downloading ShopSavvy, a free smartphone application, consumers can scan the GS1... more
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Foods that we eat have a very powerful ability to make us feel better – or feel worse. Aram and Ruben share their wisdom so you will always feel on top of the world!Foods that we eat have a very powerful ability to make us feel better – or feel... more
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Organic lawn care not only benefits the health of your grass–it also protects you, your children, pets and other animals against harmful chemicals. By following these 10 simple steps, maintaining a chemical free yard can be easier and more manageable than you think and can be done at little or no cost to you.
link: http://www.earnadegreeonline.net/organic-lawn-care-10-tips-for-maintaining-a-chemical-free-yardOrganic lawn care not only benefits the health of your grass–it also protects... more
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LA Fashion Week is just ahead, but sustainable designer, Carrie Parry revealed her line on her site to appease eager eco-fashion nerds (like us).
[Images available at the main page.]
This is the first exposure of Carrie Parry for me, and I have to say – I like it. I like the fact that silk is used to create texture that isn’t just… silk-texture. I adore the classic styling (one of Carrie Parry’s core values), and timelessness of the separates. Most importantly, though… I love the color palette. Aside from that, I have to love an indie, sustainable designer who used to design garments for the circus. Parry was involved in the costuming of England’s vintage traveling circus, Gifford’s Circus...
[More at the main page.]
http://www.awakenedaesthetic.com/2011/03/sneak-peek-carrie-parry-fw-2011/LA Fashion Week is just ahead, but sustainable designer, Carrie Parry revealed her... more
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If you have unexplained skin rashes or allergic reactions with no explanation, your skin care product just might be to blame. Also a source of woe for Mother Earth, many skin care products can produce or contain harmful ingredients.
link: http://bsndegrees.com/top-50-organic-skin-care-blogsIf you have unexplained skin rashes or allergic reactions with no explanation, your... more
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From the blog post by Alex Muse (CEO of ShopSavvy, Inc., the creators of ShopSavvy)
"More and more produce items are sporting scan-able barcodes and we thought it might be cool if consumers could figure out where a particular fruit was grown. Did you know that 27% of produce is grown by family farms? We decided to partner with Top 10 Produce to help ShopSavvy users ‘Know Your Farmer’. The program is brand new, but over the coming months hundreds of farms will be added to the system. ShopSavvy users who scan produce will find pictures, maps, Facebook Pages, Twitter feeds related to the farmer who grew the fruit or vegetable."
http://shopsavvy.mobi/2011/03/08/food-traceability-on-shopsavvy/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.Top10produce.comFrom the blog post by Alex Muse (CEO of ShopSavvy, Inc., the creators of ShopSavvy)... more
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short film i did about 2 brothers in America helping farmers in Chiapas organize and bring their organically grown coffee to market. The brothers are equal partners with the largely Indigenous farmers, and are offering an alternative to the poverty and desperation that the multi national coffee corps have subjected them to for years. The brothers are also offering their coffee at deep discount to non profit organizations to assist in fund raising efforts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toKuaI4AUv0&feature=channel_video_titleshort film i did about 2 brothers in America helping farmers in Chiapas organize and... more
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With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that have occurred just five times during the past 540 million years.With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned... more
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Get it here: http://www.ecobold.com/products/91-hankybook-3-set-paisley-green-vine-pink-lotus-patterns
We now offer HankyBooks, an organic cotton handkerchief for you and your kids at a great discount! The handkerchief books are made of super soft and absorbent 100% organic cotton pages which are bound together – therefore the name HankyBOOK- within a protective cover. No more used and dirty handkerchiefs in your pocket!
You can use the inside pages of the HankyBook for all different kinds of purposes like blowing your nose, cleaning baby dribbles or wiping off dust and dirt. There are no limits! The protective cover ensures that your hands and pockets remain clean. What is also really great about them is that they are made of 100% organic cotton, reusable and washer & dryer safe! Instead of using regular tissues that are produced by cutting down trees, you can get the reusable Hankybooks which are organic AND reusable.
Leslie Uke, the founder and inventor of HankyBooks, wanted to address the problem of tissue and clutter waste, and steer people towards a non-disposable culture. Since she has been dealing with a ‘leaky faucet’ all her life, she got frustrated with regular tissues and the resulting red nose, so she invented a practical solution.
All HankyBooks are handmade from either second-hand fabrics (used for covers only) or 100% organic fabric. So you are not just doing a good deed for your nose, but also for the environment. Hankybooks can be ordered individually or in packs of three. They offer a variety of HankyBooks such as Red Fish Blue Fish, Pink Lotus, White Paisley, Green Vine and Baby Letters. The packages of three can be one style only, or a combination of styles. So get your own HankyBook today with our coupon code that is already included in our discount price!Get it here:... more
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If you eat organic foods, there's a good chance it started here, at High Mowing Seeds in Wolcott, Vermont. OneDegreeTV visits Tom Stearns to discuss the process of cultivating, selecting and breeding better organic seeds, and how he and others in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom are helping to change the way we eat.If you eat organic foods, there's a good chance it started here, at High Mowing... more
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"Even as traditional environmentalism struggles, another movement is rising in its place, aligning consumers, producers, the media and even politicians. It's the food movement, and if it continues to grow it may be able to create just the sort of political and social transformation that environmentalists have failed to achieve in recent years.
That would mean not only changing the way Americans eat and the way they farm — away from industrialized, cheap calories and toward more organic, small-scale production, with plenty of fruits and vegetables — but also altering the way we work and relate to one another. To its most ardent adherents, the food movement isn't just about reform
— it's about revolution."
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2049255,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular"Even as traditional environmentalism struggles, another movement is rising in... more
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This collection could not be a better starting point for me, personally, to begin reviewing sustainable high-end fashion. It hits every one of my current fashion obsessions, and it comes from a designer that presented the entire collection with a history of the garments: where he personally bought the wool, who knitted the sweaters, and a reminder that “We have to have this transparent dialogue about how we’re making stuff.”
Patrick started with a perfect juxtaposition between soft femininity and an obvious masculinity – both on female models. Both looks are very covered up, taking on a sense of modesty that I see becoming a huge trend this spring and next autumn. (The hard-to-wear hemline shown above seems to be a theme in most designers’ collections.)
The details are key, here: a pure white dress shirt only half-tucked into sheer lace; a slight boat neck sweater allowing both collar bones to peek out. It’s about hinting at sex appeal; making you work for it. People think you need confidence to wear a tank top and miniskirt, but in my opinion that’s the easy stuff: just let your skin do the work for you. Long skirts and sleeves, draped jackets and loose-woven knits require you to work for your sex appeal.
(View images at the main site.)
http://www.awakenedaesthetic.com/2011/02/the-ethical-side-of-nyfw-organic-by-john-patrick/This collection could not be a better starting point for me, personally, to begin... more
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Every day, Americans grow more concerned about the food they eat. Dieting has become a popular fad, yet the health of the nation continues to deteriorate. The USDA has turned a blind eye to the patenting of life; favoring corporate giants like Monsanto and ConAgra over the family farmers of the United States.
"In one week, the US Department of Agriculture clearly demonstrated that it favors the bottom line of one biotechnology company, Monsanto, while putting the organic food industry at-risk and ignoring more than 400,000 people who expressed concerns about genetically engineered (GE) foods. On January 27, USDA approved unrestricted plantings of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready genetically engineered alfalfa and followed that on February 4 by allowing restricted plantings of GE sugar beets.
With the sugar beet decision, USDA also ignored a federal court ruling that prohibits plantings of the GE beets."
http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2011/02/08/usda-favors-monsanto-over-organic-industry-consumers/
The hope for unmodified, natural foods continue to deteriorate around the world as other countries have begun caving to Monsanto's demand to monopolize the food markets.
"The dominoes continue to fall. The European Union is expected to announce a controversial plan to allow genetically modified crops into Europe for the first time – without regulatory approval.
For now, it’s just animal feed, and it’s just crops that have been “slightly contaminated’ by GMOs. But come on, we all saw this coming, right?
First the US approves GMO crops over the objection of farmers who say they will contaminate normal and organic crops, and hurt US exports to Europe where GMOs are banned under a zero-tolerance policy.
Then the US pressures Europe to take our tainted exports anyway, because it’ll hurt our farmers if they don’t.
Europe caves and drops the zero-tolerance policy."
http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/02/09/europe-opening-the-door-to-gmo-crops/
If the FDA and countries around the world continue to deregulate the protection of life, it will soon become impossible for us to consume food the way nature was intended to be.Every day, Americans grow more concerned about the food they eat. Dieting has become a... more
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http://www.anh-usa.org/usda-says-yes-to-genetically-engineered-sugarbeets-kiss-organic-goodbye/
The US Department of Agriculture last Friday gave farmers the go-ahead to resume planting Roundup Ready sugarbeets—claiming it’s the only way to avoid a nationwide shortage of sugar!
Hot on the heels of the deregulation of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, the USDA said it would once again allow the GE sugarbeet to be planted, contrary to the order of district court judge Jeffrey S. White, who said a full environmental impact statement (EIS) needed to be done first. As the Wall Street Journal points out, an EIS of the type ordered by the judge is usually thousands of pages long and takes years to conduct. That would have kept the genetically modified sugarbeets out of the hands of farmers at least through 2012.
This would allow farmers to begin planting GE sugarbeets this spring. But the environmental and organic seed groups that originally sued the USDA said Friday they would ask Judge White to block this latest move by the USDA.
Processors say there aren’t enough non-GE sugarbeet seeds around for farmers to plant this spring. A study conducted for the sugar industry predicted that US sugar production would plunge 20% if the judge’s ban stays in place, and it appears this study alarmed food companies enough that they were able the pressure USDA into acting now. (For more on sugar and sweeteners, see our article elsewhere in this issue.)
In this case, the sugarbeets are being “partially deregulated”: USDA is permitting farmers to plant genetically modified sugarbeets this year only if they adhere to rules designed to prevent the plant’s wind-blown pollen from reaching organic fields, where its biotechnology traits could spread—though if the rules themselves prove ineffective, organic sugarbeets will be contaminated.
That contamination is what is most worrisome. The Organic Consumers Association had this to say about the deregulation of alfalfa: “[It is] guaranteed to spread its mutant genes and seeds across the nation; guaranteed to contaminate the alfalfa fed to organic animals; guaranteed to lead to massive poisoning of farm workers and destruction of the essential soil food web by the toxic herbicide, Roundup; and guaranteed to produce Roundup-resistant superweeds….” Health advocates have the same concerns about sugarbeets.
If you haven’t already done so, please visit our Action Alert page where you can write to President Obama, Congress, and the USDA, and tell them to reverse this terrible decision. Please contact them today!http://www.anh-usa.org/usda-says-yes-to-genetically-engineered-sugarbeets-kiss-organic-... more
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