Yekra Player Yekra is a revolutionary new distribution network for feature films. Unacceptable Levels Unacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of affable filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut … [Read more…]
Popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani source mainly from catastrophically dry parts of the West. —By Julia Lurie | Mon Aug. 11, 2014 6:00 AM EDT Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: there’s a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third driest year on record. The details of where and … [Read more…]
Recently I bought some Purslane plants from the local Lowes. I thought they were about the prettiest flowering plants I’ve ever seen, so I planted them in an old solar powered water fall that quit working. I didn’t want to throw the thing away, and decided I would re-purpose it into a planter. The thing … [Read more…]
What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming By Doug Gurian-Sherman on August 5, 2014 As you may have heard, about half a million people in the Toledo, Ohio area lost their municipal drinking water supply on Saturday because of possible microbial toxin contamination from Lake Erie. A combination of heavier spring rains, exacerbated by climate change, and runoff of … [Read more…]
New Analysis Concludes Organic Food Really is Healthier Are organic foods healthier, and therefore worth the extra expense? The scientific debate over this issue has raged on for many years now. I believe the answer is clear-cut, at least if you believe that toxic chemicals have the capacity to harm your health…Two years ago, meta-analysis by Stanford … [Read more…]
The Case Against Chlorinated Tap Water Could it interfere with the “good” bacteria in your gut? —By Josh Harkinson | Mon Aug. 4, 2014 6:00 AM EDT The chlorination of municipal tap water is considered one of the 20th century’s best public health ideas. The American Water Works Association credits the practice with increasing life expectancy … [Read more…]
By Thorbjorg (Mind Body Green)If you suffer from any of the following ailments, you may not be drinking enough water: fatigue, confusion, memory loss, dizziness, dry and wrinkled skin, brittle hair and nails, cold fingers and toes, constipation, eczema, headaches, urinary tract infections, and muscle pains.These are all signs of dehydration.Your body is made up … [Read more…]
(NaturalNews) Many commercial sunscreens contain toxic ingredients that actually raise the risk of skin cancer. However, natural sunscreen can get very pricey, especially if you have a large family. Here is a sunscreen that you can make at home and is nontoxic and all natural. While you are blocking the harmful rays of the sun, … [Read more…]
GET A FREE Water Emergency Treatment System With Purchase of a Multipure Drinking Water System! From July 1st through September 30th, Multipure is offering an all-new Water Emergency Treatment (WET) System for just the cost of shipping to Customers who purchase any Multipure Drinking Water System at regular price! — Or if you purchase any … [Read more…]
This year I decided I wanted a raised bed garden. I went with a raised bed rather than a ground garden for several reasons. Raised gardening beds are higher than ground level, so there is not as much bending to work in your garden. A high frame puts plants in reach of a gardener. For easy access, (about 4 feet … [Read more…]
Multipure – a Factor in Breast Cancer Prevention Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 14, 2014 A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal,Environmental Health Perspectives, identifies key chemicals in the formation of breast cancer tumors. Sponsors of the study advocate methods to limit exposure – including the use of solid carbon block filters for drinking … [Read more…]
Is It Time for the Government to Take Action on Climate Change? The recent report put out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change brings about more detailed and serious questions concerning the nature of climate change. There is a domestic battle in America today over whether or not we are in fact faced with … [Read more…]
Have you been tempted to buy a Multipure “compatible” filter to fit into your Multipure water filter? If so, you may not be getting the quality of water you think you are. Recently Zachary Rice, president of Multipure, sent out a letter to all distributors addressing the issue of imitation filters and the importance of using only … [Read more…]
How much water do you use every day? The answer might surprise you. A paper released online last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that Americans significantly underestimate their water use. Curious how my friends and family would fare, I reached out via social media and posed the simple question, … [Read more…]
As the war to force GMO companies to label their products rages on, iPhone app developers are taking matters into their own hands. By creating apps that allow consumers to determine exactly what is in the products that they buy, these developers are giving you total freedom of choice. These apps all have multiple features … [Read more…]
PURIUM’s Organic Tropic Oil earns NON-GMO PROJECT VERIFICATION! 100 years ago all food was organic. Vegetables grew from the earth. Fruit was picked right off the tree. Fish swam in pristine streams, lakes and oceans. And animals roamed free. Now, many of the things we put into our bodies are made not made by God … [Read more…]
If you, like many millions of people all over the world, are serious about improving the environment and lessening the footprint that you’ve these on our world so that things are better for the next generation is and you found it, you’re going to want to try and improve your efficiency and “green-ability” as best … [Read more…]
(Natural News) Most of the western world thinks of salt as sodium chloride — a highly refined, processed white substance that’s devoid of nutrients. Salt is so devoid of nutrients, in fact, that in the early 20th century, doctors noticed that people who ate white table salt started to suffer chronic degenerative diseases such as goiter. This was … [Read more…]
It’s estimated that more than 75 percent of the food in supermarkets is genetically engineered or contains GE ingredients. And with no federal requirement that foods with genetically engineered ingredients be labeled, how are you supposed to know what you are eating? EWG wants to make sure you have the information you need to make … [Read more…]
Plastic bags are the modern environmental scourge — piling up in landfills, polluting the oceans and choking wildlife. Now, Hawaii has taken a stand by becoming the first U.S. state to ban plastic bags at checkout counters. Hawaii has always valued the land, or “Aina,” so the step isn’t too surprising. Four of the state’s five counties … [Read more…]