Sustainability

  • Healthy Ways to Clean Your Home

    Our obsession with cleanliness has created a multi-billion dollar industry of a plethora of cleaning products for every surface.  Rather than using good old-fashioned “elbow grease,” we have a vast array of chemical solvents to ease our cleaning burden, but in the process we have unwittingly created a toxic condition in our homes.   We have…

  • Natural Body Care Products

    The cosmetics and personal care industry includes thousands of products, many of which we use on our bodies daily.  And it’s indeed very personal.  Many people – especially women – have a deep belief that they need to use products to enhance their beauty and personal appeal.  But while these products can have a positive…

  • Pay the Farmer, Not the Doctor

    “You are what you eat.”  We’ve all heard this, and yet most of us never read the ingredients in the foods we eat.  And if we do, we have little awareness of whether the ingredients are harmful or not.  Our bodies are amazingly resilient, and can survive repeated exposure to unhealthy substances.  And yet we…

  • The New Good Life

    In thinking about how to live a more sustainable lifestyle, many of us are drawn to a simpler lifestyle.  It is thought that some of the happiest people are those that live with less, like the story of the Mexican fisherman.  In this story, an American tourist coaches a the Mexican on how he could…

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    My ReVolt Against Fossil Fuels

    I got my first chance to drive a Chevy Volt a couple years ago when I worked a few hours in a booth at the St. Louis Auto Show.  Now, this was far from the experience you might expect; I drove it inside America’s Center and was asked not to exceed 5 mph.  The person…

  • Where Does the Trash Go?

    I am pleased to head up a “Green Team” at our office.  The company I work for, Microgrid Solar, recently moved into a new and much larger office space, so I now have a private office that rivals the home office I’ve been so comfortable in the last few years.  Working everyday with a great…