Archive for the ‘thoughts and opinions’ Category


Do Unto Nature Well for Your Actions Create Your Legacy

As each of us strives to exist in harmony with nature by maintaining a green lifestyle, many of our daily actions project beyond our personal benefit as we help sustain our environment. Perpetuating the green living philosophy by finding new ways to enhance our interactions with the natural environment leaving a postive legacy in our [...]

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Factory Farms, Genetically Altered Food and Potential Health Concerns

I recently visited a colleague’s blog site and read a post triggered by Michael Jackson’s untimely death due to cardiac arrest.  The post addressed the issues associated with people, their lifestyles, health background and heart disease. One of the key points made by the author focused on the relationship between lifestyle and poor health choices [...]

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Are There Chemicals in Your Household Cleaning Products?

A podcast with my thoughts on people’s perception of the word “chemical” (be patient, it may take a moment to load): [audio:meaningofchemical.mp3] Right click to download the audio MP3 file: Meaning of Chemical ================== Interesting question isn’t it? Read the short post below and listen to the podcast above and see why I believe a [...]

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What Does Natural Mean Exactly?

Yesterday’s post posed a simple question about baking soda … is it natural? After providing a little background information about the composition and sources of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), it was clear that there is a considerable amount of processing taking place in both the older Solvay process as well as the current processes to [...]

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Is Baking Soda Natural?

A simple title isn’t it? If you do a web search for that phrase, you will find link after link touting baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is an agent for natural cleaning, skin care, tooth care and the list goes on and on …. The more I thought about it however, something didn’t quite seem to [...]

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