The recent recall of hundreds of thousands of eggs and the illness of over a thousand people due to salmonella contamination is a wake-up call to the dangers of factory farming. And it’s bound to encourage more people to buy organic eggs from local farmers, or to keep their own backyard chickens.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the descriptive label given to an ever-increasing number of children – especially boys – who have trouble fitting into the school system and disrupt family life. Complaints about their behavioral “problems” include hyperactivity, poor attention span, lack of concentration, disruptiveness, clumsiness, recklessness, defiance, and irritability. As I wrote in [...]
Over one-third of all known plants face extinction. Humans are the main cause of extinction and the principle threat to species at risk. Habitat loss is the leading threat, along with introduction of alien species (this can happen deliberately in the search for pretty plants for our gardens, or unintentionally by organisms “hitch-hiking” in containers, ships, cars, or soil), over-exploitation, pollution and disease, and human-induced climate change (which has many effects, from altering migratory species patterns to causing coral bleaching). A variety of organizations are working to reverse this trend, including BGCI, an international organization of botanic gardens.
Summertime can be simple and fun without exploiting Nature, damaging the environment, worrying about your family’s health and stressing you out. Here are some articles from Natural Life Magazine’s archives to help.
Celebrating Earth Day is not appropriate. And it’s too late for symbolism. Instead, we need to push governments and corporations to make serious and drastic change in order that Earth continues to be habitable by humans.
Mainstream publications are noticing straw bale construction but Natural Life Magazine has been publishing articles about such homes for almost 20 years. Here are some links to articles from our archives and resources elsewhere on the Internet.
Symbols like Earth Hour and Earth Day are great. But it will take more than people turning off their lights for an hour a year or school kids planting trees one day a year to create that change. What are you doing about climate change today?
The time is coming when all workplaces will be scent-free zones, because an increasing number of people are sensitive to perfumes and fragrances in personal care products.
Television networks are inserting instances of green behavior into program storylines in order to attract advertisers.
Yardsharing is a way for people with garden space but no time to garden to share it with gardeners who have no space. Both share in the produce, while building community and contributing to the security of their local food supply.