Natural Life Magazine

a green living blog by Editor Wendy Priesnitz

Archive for June, 2010

Summertime, and the Livin’ is Green

Monday, June 28th, 2010

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.

Toxic Pesticide Banned in US

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Our food supply – not to mention farming and the environment – just got a bit safer in North America. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a ban on the pesticide endosulfan – one of the last legal organochlorine pesticides, a notorious group of which DDT is a member.

Can We Boycott Oil?

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

We can boycott BP, but should also consider the other “bad boy” oil companies, and oil in general. Natural Life provides one way for individuals to begin.

Avoid Invasive Species by Planting Native

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Gardeners and farmers like to move plants to new locations for cultivation as crops or as ornamentals (or transport them by accident). And some of those plants may become what we call invasive species, damaging the local ecology by choking out native plants and interrupting the balance of Nature.