low-stress ideas for living a deeper shade of green
Inspired by our recent Earth Day radio show, I did a fun Care2 post about 25 ways to celebrate Earth Day without buying anything. Here’s a little bit of that rant: Make it a non-Consumer Earth Day AND become a smart, eco-friendly consumer all year round There are millions of new wonderful ‘green living’ gadgets, [...]
After events like the recent Boston Marathon bombing or the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, my initial reaction is to be frozen as if shot in the gut with a laser gun set on stun. It’s hard to breath, to speak, to choke out words of any meaning. I will cry, watch too much news [...]
I was the youngest in my family – by 8 years – and thusly spent most of my life trying to catch up. I never loved being the baby all the time, yet always found myself attracted to older people and perpetuating my role as the youngest. But this week, the delusion that I was [...]
Bummer GDs! This seemingly innocent cup of tea got knocked over – full – onto the mixing board about 3 minutes before the show . . . GD Meg loves her tea, but geeeeeeeze! The board is in rice and hopefully recovering. Please send good dry vibes. We will be back next week – dry [...]
I think it is safe to post this now . . . Looking forward to a new age (well, at least a new year) of health, prosperity and good green fun. Other than my scheduled appearance on FOX Good Day New York on Christmas day (scheduled for 9:40am, but ya never know in the news biz), this green diva will be enjoying family more and digital interaction less for the next week or so.
Having overcome powerlessness, exercised my right to vote (and my gluts on the all-up-hill walk home from my polling place!) and let out a hefty sigh of relief that there wasn’t any serious electile dysfunction, we thought we’d be on the air last night for our postponed first show from last week, but . . [...]
We are in northern, NJ. We were hit pretty hard by Sandy, but from what I can tell, we got off easy compared to lower Manhattan, Queens and the Jersey shore. It is day 4 of powerlessness. Feeling pretty grateful for a lot of things – natural gas service, gas fireplaces, gas hot water heater, [...]
My kitchen has been overtaken by tomatoes. For the past week, the countertops have been lined with spillover from a late summer harvest. It’s a blessing, but also a real dilemma for a brown-thumb, largely kitchen-phobic girl who for nearly three decades picked the tomatoes out of everything. I love fresh produce as much as [...]
This green diva has to weigh in on all the buzz and banter about the latest study from Stanford about the lack of nutritional benefit from eating organic food. There is a lot of evidence that I wasn’t the only one irritated and quite surprised to see how this study was spun into a pro-chemical pesticide and fertilizer piece.
WARNING: this is an opinion piece. I will try to present facts, but I’m not an unbiased news source. Oh boy. Whether you are rooting for the guy who got Clint Eastwood to babble to an empty chair (Mitt Romney), or the guy who is tap dancing as fast as he can in the White House to the [...]
