Live Locally
Organic Farmers Opting Out Due To Finances
If you ate today, thank a farmer. Many of us drive to the big grocery store chain, grab a cart and start wheeling down the aisles of neatly stacked canned goods. We pass the piles of fresh produce, dewy and moist from the hose, without a second thought. How many people st...
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Good Boxes Offers a Greener Way to Move
Moving is exciting, sometimes scary, and always stressful—and packing is the worst part of it! You have to buy cardboard boxes or find clean ones. Then theres the seemingly endless taping required to build, reinforce and close all those boxes. This is followed by the hope...
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You Can Make a Difference for the Planet
A new year brings us a fresh slate. Its a time to begin again, to do it over, to be all that you can be. Its a time to revaluate if our train is running on the rails of our choosing, heading in the direction of our green goals.Do you have a green cause in your heart? If y...
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Starting Your New Year With Hope
One morning while inhaling deeply as I began my Hatha Yoga routine on the deck of our sailboat Ritmo Di Vita, I listened to the local hummingbirds, Glittering-throated Emeralds, call to one another. I knew then that this New Year was going to be unlike any other.Here in P...
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Tips for Riding Your Bike in the Winter
Nothing is more pleasant that going for a bicycle ride when it is warm out, but what about when the temperatures drop? For those of us who commute by bicycle, getting motivated to ride to work or school becomes a lot more difficult when the mercury dips. Similar to riding when...
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Supporting Local Business is Greener
Buying local foods has been a fixture in the green movement for a while now, but there are plenty of reasons to support all local business—and especially ones that also lead by example with eco-friendly business practices. Local businesses have a significant impact on loc...
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EPA Urges Americans to Pick 5 Ways to Go Green
Lifes complicated, and it can be difficult to stick with all the things you plan to do to benefit the environment. But the EPA has a great new program to get Americans to commit and stick with it.Pick 5 for the Environment combines environmental action with social media in a ...
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California Wines Get Sustainability Certification
Finding sustainably produced California wine is about to get a whole lot easier. Forbes.com reports that the Wine Institute is set to launch what it's calling the Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing Program, a third-party certification program that will make it eas...
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Newcastle Tops U.K.'s Greenest City Ranking
Shrouded in smoke and the center of ship building, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was once a major industrial center. But the city has been transformed into the greenest city in Britain in recent years, according to a sustainability audit, The Guardian reports. Newcastle was a bit of a surp...
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The Dirt! Makes Going Green in Portland Easy
Do you ever wish you could get the dirt on all the environmental events and resources in your community? If you live in Portland, you're in luck; just head to TheDirt.org. A fantastic resource for Portlanders who want to make their lives as sustainable as possible, The Dirt...
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Green City: San Francisco
Cities don't get much greener than San Francisco. The southern California city is well known for banning plastic bags, plastic bottles, and Styrofoam take-out containers, and San Francisco International Airport was the first to install carbon offset kiosks. And the Californi...
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Green City: Boston
Boston is one of my favorite cities. I love the history, the museums, the colleges, and the little unique neighborhoods that make up the large city. But I also love Boston because it's deep, dark green. From the way Bostonians get around, to where they shop, to how they buil...
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I’m a CSA Member – Now What?
You found a local CSA farm, researched it thoroughly, and sent in your membership fee. But what happens now?Well, farm differences aside, there are some standard things you should expect. The first decision you likely made was the size of your share. Some Community Supported Ag...
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Community Supported Agriculture Farms
Isn’t awareness amazing? Suddenly, we discover a whole new world right under our own noses: we buy a Volvo and suddenly, it seems, our town is full of them or, for us mothers, when we are pregnant, we suddenly see pregnant women everywhere. When something is important and relevan...
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Buy Local Maple Syrup
Sweet, sweet maple syrup! Whether you douse your pancakes and waffles with the brown liquid, or are a more adventurous sort and use it in dinner dishes, there's no denying the lure of its sweet flavor. It's also great as an alternative to sweeteners. If you've be...
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Live Local, Live Green: Houston
Living Local is all about reducing your carbon footprint by avoiding foods and products that have traveled long distances to make it into your home, but we want to highlight local farms and companies that are also making big efforts to go green. Whether it's growing or selli...
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Detox with Fresh Local Fruits and Veggies
When I was young, my Nana had the most amazing garden full of potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, peas, carrots, radishes, raspberries, strawberries . . . she even had a few stalks of corn! I ate peas from the pod, and young carrots I'd pulled from the ground and w...
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Why Try Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
Organic. Local. Seasonal. Sustainable.These are all popular keywords used prolifically by the media today. We know these methods are important, if not the ideal, but how realistic is it that the average American can support them? Well, there is a growing trend (pun intended) in ...
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How To Dry Fruit
Last fall a friend of mine was lamenting the lack of dried fruit available in the town we were living in. When she went home for the holidays, she returned loaded down with her fave wrinkly fruits and was blissfully satisfied . . . until her stash was gone a few weeks later. We ...
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Choose the Food Less Traveled
Eating locally grown foods has many benefits for your health, the environment and your community. On your next shopping venture, look at where your fruit and vegetables come from. You may be surprised to find the produce on your local grocery shelf may have traveled further than ...
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