Natural Life Magazine

a green living blog by Editor Wendy Priesnitz

Archive for December, 2009

Education as a Path to Sustainability

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Education is one of the topics that we regularly cover in Natural Life Magazine. That’s because we believe that making changes to how we treat and educate our children is crucial to the act of building a truly sustainable society. One of our most revered and supposedly democratic institutions uses the tool of compulsion to [...]

Green Your Holiday Celebrations

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Ideas for Christmas celebrations that are eco-friendly, healthy and frugal.

Teaching Ourselves To Change the World

Monday, December 14th, 2009

How we educate our children and ourselves is crucial to our society’s future ability to solve our environmental, social and economic problems.

Phthalates Linked to ADHD

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Phthalates – chemical softeners added to plastics to make them pliable – have been linked to symptoms of ADHD in children.

Alarm Raised About Climate Change Quick Fixes

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

NGOs release a joint statement alerting governments to the absence of any precautionary environmental and social assessment mechanisms in the draft Copenhagen agreement on technology, and claiming that the current approach poses grave threats to human health, human rights, rural livelihoods, diverse ecosystems and climate stability.

Round Houses: An Introduction to Yurts

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Originally created as portable homes by nomadic tribes of central Asia, yurts have become a symbol of a simpler, more sustainable way of life in the 21st Century.

Exiting the Fast Lane

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Job sharing as a route to working less, surviving the recession and saving the environment.