My mother gave me a little book called The Better World Shopping Guide. It’s written by Ellis Jones, a professor of sociology at UC Davis. It’s not really a book, but rather a collection of tables that rate different manufacturers of products based on their corporate behavior. Corporations have the ability to affect millions of [...]
Archive for November, 2008
24 Nov
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are a few of our favorite Thanksgiving recipes… Apple Cranberry Pie Roasted Root Veggies And a new one–homemade cranberry sauce! Once you taste this, you’ll never buy the canned junk again!! Ingredients: 4 cups fresh cranberries 1 to 1 1/2 cups orange juice 5 whole cloves 5 whole allspice berries 3 cinnamon sticks 1 [...]
23 Nov
My favorite snack
I’m going to share my all-time favorite snack because I’ve been enjoying for years, often daily, and am still not sick of it. I LOVE THIS SNACK! I take plain yogurt, usually 1%. I love making my own, but I also like Whole Food’s 365 yogurt. I toss in Cascadian Farms Organic Oats and Honey [...]
17 Nov
Long but good
A friend of mine recently sent me the link to this article. It’s lengthy and covers a multitude of topics (BPA, phthalates, PBDEs, body burden, the ineffective Toxic Substances Control Act, etc.) I often discuss on this blog. My favorite sentence is this one, where the author is refering to the ability of the PBDEs [...]
15 Nov
$800 to diaper two children
My youngest recently turned one. It’s amazing how much changes in just a year. When my first child turned one, I sat down and calculated some fun numbers–all the hours of sleep I’d lost in the past year, how many ounces of mommy’s milk he’d probably drank, how many diaper changes he’d been through. And [...]
12 Nov
We passed the test!
For those of you following our radon saga, we just got the results back from our post-mitigation radon test. It was 1.4 piC/L! Well under the EPA’s safety limit of 4 and much lower than when our home was first tested (13!) Yay! We were advised to continue testing our home’s radon level (when done [...]
10 Nov
No more fear of fat
Ever since the early 90s, I have been deathly afraid of fat. I stopped enjoying cream cheese and bagels for breakfast, painstakingly peeled cheese off slices of pizza, avoided nuts like the plague, and frequently bought Healthy Choice frozen entres. I would watch in horror as my Greek grandmother poured cups and cups of olive [...]
5 Nov
Updates
House – We have been in our new home for three weeks and are finally getting settled. We have been lucky with the weather, which has been pleasant enough to open the windows almost daily. No new home headaches like I had with my last house! Radon – We had a company mitigate our high [...]
