Saturday, April 9, 2011

Organic News 04-09-11


Natural recipe for life
Ottawa Citizen
She is behind Manotick's Peppermint Organic Spa, where she offers handmade skin care, nail and hair removal treatments free of synthetic ingredients created for each client's specific skin type. Cianciullo had a life-altering moment three years ago ...
MNN week in review: Environmental superlatives and living furniture
Mother Nature Network
• We can't all have the most organic farms or the lowest air pollution, but every US state is No. 1 in some environmental or public health category ... and No. 50 in another. Here's a look at each state's strengths and weaknesses. ...

The country life of a city slicker
Irish Times
Kimball is a writer who decided to trade her single life in the big city to marry a farmer named Mark and turn 500 neglected acres into an organic community farm. Seven years after her life-changing move to Essex Farm in upstate New York, ...

Irish Times
Book Review: Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, by Zsuzsi Gartner
National Post (blog)
As against Munro's organic fiction, Gartner can be said to be writing plastic fiction. Hence the aptness of the title of Gartner's superb new story collection, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives. As an organic writer, Munro's instinctive ...
Los Angeles Organic Furniture Specialty Store Announces New Line of Organic ...
Online PR News (press release)
Unlike bedding made from commercial cotton, Coyuchi bedding is made from 100% certified organic cotton, and has a loyal following among people who believe in living as naturally as possible. Coyuchi bedding is designed to comfort and rejuvenate ...
Eco-Paris
New York Times
... (organic markets) and green wine shops have opened citywide. There are rooftop honeybee programs at the Opéra Garnier and the Grand Palais. New eco-minded hotels continue to open, while old ones retrofit their facilities for low-carbon living. ...

New York Times
Green Living Show EcoMentors Youth Conference
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin
FREE local and organic drinks, snacks and a sustainable lunch! • Watch an exclusive video screening from the Planet in Focus film festival! • Win special prizes in the Green Living Show scavenger hunt! • Earn cool green rewards, certification and ...
Kiera Faber's 'Living Organics' at the MAC
Herald Review
I just had this strange thought of, even though it was dead material and organic, I kind of had a sense of it once living," said Faber about where the title of the project came from. Grand Rapids Herald-Review Print/Online Subscribers Only! ...
They don't sweat it
Business Standard
“Stress-free” in this sense, refers to the conditions in which these animals live and includes not just a greater degree of cleanliness and hygiene in their living area and special care that they eat only organic feed free of any chemicals, ...
My father, the king of thrift
Salon
Seeking even better deals on bulk food, my husband, Rich, and I just joined our rural food co-op, which gets me wholesale prices on 25-pound bags of organic flour. Membership offers another plus: Ordering food from a catalog saves me an agonizing trip ...

Salon