Water | Resources
What is the cleanest and greenest choice for rubber gloves (for cleaning)?
Question from DoTheRightThing1978
Hello and thank you for the chance to get some info on this…
I have recently switched to cleaning with baking soda, vinegar, castile soap, and essential oils. My hands and skin are quite sensitive and I feel the oils very strongly on my skin. Plus, the baking soda and vinegar tend to dry out my hands quite badly, so my solution was to get gloves. However, I find this ironic! Using rubber gloves with a chemical powder inside them in order to protect my hands and skin from the natural stuff just doesn’t make sense to me! But I do need the gloves, especially for the times I am doing a massive bathroom, tub, tile, and even the walls cleaning!
Hope you can help… Thanks.
Debra’s Answer
Readers. what are your recommendations? I don’t use gloves.
Odor In Sheet
Question from Jan harris
My wonderful 100% organic cotton sheets have been washed often and now have an odor — probably from the chemicals I’m detoxing — which I’m sensitive to. Is there any way to rid the sheets of this odor?
Debra’s Answer
Readers, any experience with this?
Blender / baby food maker
Question from petercsantoro@yahoo.com
I will start to purée my infant’s first foods. For my first child, I used a glass blender, a Breville with a stainless steel bottom and blade. I need to purchase another one, and figure the glass is best for baby’s food (no BPA in glass). Would you recommend this one or is there another you like, or another product for making baby food? What about the Vitamix blender? I see that it is plastic but I believe it is “BPA” free. It seems to do a lot more than a typical blender so other than the fact that it is plastic, I like the product. Any thoughts on the Vitamix?
Debra’s Answer
I like my Vitamix a lot. The only problem for me is that the canister is fairly large and I usually am making a smaller amount of food. They have a smaller canister you might want to get.
The big advantage to the Vitamix is it’s power. I bought mine because I like to make smoothies with ice and blender ice cream and crushed ice and was having problems doing this with regular blenders.
I’ve just been very happy with mine.
30 States Introduce Toxics Legislation to Protect Children
On January 19, 30 states filed legislation to protect children from toxic chemicals in consumer products.
Read more at www.saferchemicals.org.
Logona
Over 200 products for the daily care of skin and hair for all members of the family. "Logona products utilize the highest quality, natural raw materials, such as premium vegetable oils and waxes, herbal extracts and floral distillates derived from organic agriculture and wildcrafting… Logona products must also conform to industry-leading ecological standards regarding minimal resource consumption during manufacturing, and minimal and recylable packaging for the finished products…In Spring of 1999, Logona successfully completed an "Environmental Sudit" of its entireoperation conducted under mandate of the German dederal government." Organized as collective, Lagona employs more than 100 full-time employees, and places special emphasis on social resposibility and fairness towards employees and community. Logona products are sold in natural food stores and through online vendors.
Lodge Cast Iron Cookware
“America’s Original Cookware” is made from simple iron cast in sand molds. No ordering on this manufacturer’s website, but you can see all the shapes and sizes, learn about use and care, and enjoy the recipes.
Local Harvest
Enter your zip code to find small organic farms near you that grow and sell organic flowers.
Local Harvest
Enter your zip code to find small organic farms near you that grow or raise and sell organic food.
Livingreen
A wide variety of artistic and ecological items for the home: "Coatings for walls of the lowest VOC content. Products made from recycled content that are not only clever and look great but help divert waste from landfill as well. All natural materials reconfigured into beautiful furniture and flooring. Systems for creating energy-saving and 'smart' houses. Books on what materials to use and how to use them." You'll find flooring, tile, home furnishings, energy efficiency products and lighting, paints and wallcovering, surface materials, and more.
Our Inalienable Right to Food
Just before Christmas 2010, the Senate passed ‘food safety’ bill H.R.2751, previously S. 510, that will put the FDA in control of the nations food supply.
Vermont citizens have made a declaration that the agency and government have no right to determine or restrict the food choices of the People of Vermont.
“The Vermont Resolution for Food Sovereignty”, written by the Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty, it makes a statement to the United States government and the FDA that I wholeheartedly support. That we can grow and share food is an inalienable right that cannot be taken away.
The Vermont Resolution for Food Sovereignty
WHEREAS All people are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and
WHEREAS Food is human sustenance and is the fundamental prerequisite to life; and
WHEREAS The basis of human sustenance rests on the ability of all people to save seed, grow, process, consume and exchange food and farm products; and
WHEREAS We the People of Vermont, have an obligation to protect these rights as is the Common and Natural Law; and in recognition of the State’s proud agricultural heritage; and the necessity of agricultural, ecological and economic diversity and sustainability to a free and healthy Society;
THEREFORE, Be it resolved, that We The People, stand on our rights under the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution and reject such Federal decrees, statutes, regulations or corporate practices that threaten our basic human right to save seed, grow, process, consume and exchange food and farm products within the State of Vermont; and,
Be it further resolved, that We The People, shall resist any and all infringements upon these rights, from whatever sources that are contrary to the rights of the People of the State of Vermont.
Read more at Vermont Takes Action to Resist FDA Take Over With a Resolution All Should Adopt.
