June 2011
99 posts
Spicy Summer Fruit Chutney
Get your _ooh_ and _aah_ hat on and try theis simple, easy, and oh-so-tasty, magical chutney for all your summer fare. (Hint: It’s even better if you’re using your own fresh, garden-grown fruits and veggies.)
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Cool and Spicy Cilantro Mint Chutney
Get your _ooh_ and _aah_ hat on and try this simple, easy, and oh-so-tasty, magical chutney for all your summer fare. (Hint: It’s even better if you’re using your own fresh, garden-grown fruits and veggies.
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Ketchup
You can easily make your own ketchup from scratch. It’s a lot simpler than it sounds and you can skip the BPA, corn syrup and other nasty ingredients found in store-bought varieties. Don’t expect something identical to Heinz…. but a few tastes and you will revive your love of new flavors and delicious possibilities.
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Should You Be Eating Seaweed?
Seaweeds are a paradox—their ocean worlds are being devastated, but still they thrive. They’re highly nutritious, but they also absorb toxins—like the nuclear waste of the Fukushima meltdown—which can make them unsafe to eat. Scientists have identified seaweeds as a possible biofuel, helping to reduce our dependence on crude oil, but their procurement methods have conservationists seeking...
7 DIY Feasts For Feathered Friends
Spending a lot more time in your garden now that things are heating up outside? I _hear_ ya. Working the earth for that mid-summer tomato and zucchini payload is well worth the dirty fingernails, but one of the greatest pleasures in life can actually be enjoyed simply just by sitting back and taking in the scenery. By turning off the white noise in your brain – at least for 10 minutes – you’ll...
Yoga for Fatigue
Unfortunately, fatigue is an all too common part of life. While it’s a seemingly normal response to over-exertion, lack of rest, emotional stress and even boredom, the low energy and lack of motivation that results hardly begets any sort of turn around, you know? But, while fatigue certainly makes it hard to get proactive, there’s one little tool you’ve got waiting patiently...
Shine It Up: 5 DIY Tips to Clean Silver & Copper...
You’re just about to burst with home decorating ideas for some vintage silver dishes you scored at a flea market for a few bucks. The problem is, while you see their potential, those dishes are seriously lacking in the luster department.
Instead of you-can-see-your-reflection shine, they have a dulled-out gray finish. It could take an excavation to find it, but you know glossy silver lies...
Top 4 Cancer-Fighting Foods to Eat (and the Top 4...
Today, cancer is the number two killer of Americans, second only to heart disease. It’s estimated to hit about one in three people nowadays, a statistic which should alarm everyone into taking preventative action in their own lives. Pollution, genetics and diet are all contributing factors to how much cancer risk we expose ourselves to. While we may not have control over pollution or genetics,...
California First State to Ban Styrofoam Packaging
The state of California is close to being the first state to approve a ban on Styrofoam. The state Senate passed a bill that will prohibit vendors—mainly restaurants and grocery stores—from using the controversial packaging by July 2016. Schools would have to make the shift by 2017. http://dlvr.it/W6GNp
How to Get Rid of Summertime Pests, Naturally
Some people are naturally sweet – not their personalities, just their _blood_. A great way to prove this is to invite a work colleague with a superiority complex (or other mortally sworn_ frenemy_) to a lazy-day, summery picnic right next to a stagnant body of water. Yes, that’s somewhat evil, but there are certain things we must do in the name of science.
When they ask you why you’re...
6 Essential Summertime Superfoods
There may be no more important word in the English language than “summertime.” The long days, warm breezes, lazy sunny afternoons at the beach… it’s a perfection to savor unlike any other. And you never want to miss a single second of those magical moments; so being healthy and energized is a top priority. Say goodbye to the carb-binging of winter and feel your freshest with...
The Canine Waste Conundrum: Recycled Plastic Bags...
Caring for a canine companion is kind of like strapping on parental training wheels and learning all about your capacity for love, tenderness and understanding… not to mention your ability to tolerate randomly flung saliva, projectile vomiting and inappropriate elimination throughout a household that – for many of us — was once the sole domain of comparably ‘clean’ garden-variety dust....
10 Free Gifts for Dad
Finding a present for Father’s Day can be a challenge. What do you give the guy who taught you how to tie your shoes, how to catch a fish, how to drive and how not to dress? No doubt a proper gift for Father’s Day would be a palatial country estate with a team of prizewinning horses, or at least a steak dinner at the priciest place in town.
But, you’re broke. You don’t even have the cash...
New Study: Low Salt Intake May Lead to Depression
A study published in the current issue of the journal, Physiology and Behavior, suggests that our predisposition towards high salt diets may actually be a coping mechanism for dealing with stress, depression and anxiety. http://dlvr.it/VsmQJ
10 Easy & Natural Ways to Remove Those Dish Stains
Serving those tasty, beautifully-crafted organic meals you worked so hard to prepare on clean-but-slightly-stained dishes takes that “wow” factor you were going for down a notch. Whether you hand wash dishes or use a dishwasher, some stains just seem to stick, no matter how much sudsing and scrubbing you do. Cue the cleaning frustration.
Don’t let pesky set-in stains on your dishes and cups...
EWG Releases the 2011 “Dirty Dozen” Most Toxic...
As the biggest season for fresh fruits and vegetables rolls across the country, the Environmental Working Group has finally released _The 2011 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce_, which updates consumers on the total pesticide loads found in conventional produce on a list more commonly known as the “Dirty Dozen.” http://dlvr.it/VphKN
5 Vibrant Foods To Boost Your Memory
Remember those days (only quite recently, it _seems_) that rattling off the names of your favorite bands and their respective albums was as effortless as accurately reciting the lyrics to their entire catalog of songs or keeping dibs on their ever-changing dating and/or marital histories? Then, you noticed that – quite like your cell phone – your brain started displaying evidence of spotty...
4 Ways to Use Coffee Grounds in Your Beauty...
Most of you greenies out there will probably have heard of (or used) the tried and true method of repurposing old coffee grounds to enrich soil in your garden, but have you ever considered using the brown grinds leftover from your favorite brew to pamper yourself?
That’s right. With the correct methods, you can turn those brown dregs sitting in your coffee filter into grainy goodness for...
BPA Exposure Is Far More Damaging Than Previously...
The effects of the controversial petroleum by-product, Bisphenol-A (BPA) have been underestimated in previous tests, says a new study conducted by the University of Missouri. http://dlvr.it/VgpD2
Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide Link to Birth Defects...
In a recently released report by an international group of scientists funded by Earth Open Source, the team of researchers conclude that as far back as the 1980s, regulators knew that exposure to the glyphosate-based pesticide commonly marketed as Monsanto’s Roundup causes birth defects. http://dlvr.it/VZQn7
