Creating a Simpler, Lighter Life April Thompson

Feeling disorganized, unbalanced or out of sync? Your home may be partly to blame. “Mass-produced, cookie-cutter suburban homes are bad for us and bad for the environment,” says John Brown, a Calgary-based architect, professor and founder of Sl [ … ]

Red Wigglers Turn Kitchen Scraps into Gardening Gold Jessica Iclisoy

Your family loves to shop at area farmers’ markets, investigating greens and other veggies to make meals bursting with vitamins and minerals. Yet, it’s not always easy raising children who love to eat the fruits, veggies and [ … ]

The People’s Choice for Fresh Healthy Eggs Lisa Marshall

As I work in my home office near Boulder, Colorado, I hear a soft, “Cluck-cluck-cluck,” from outside the window. Soon, it will crescendo into a piercing, “Baaaaaaawk,” as the largest of our seven hens—a plump Rhode Island red named Rojo [ … ]

Dark and Delicious, it’s Blissfully Healthy Gabriel Constans

Did you know that more than half of U.S. adults prefer chocolate to other flavors and spend $55 per person per year to indulge their hankering? That’s a lot of chocolate— some 3.3 billion pounds annually, or about 12 pounds per choc [ … ]

Saving Energy and Cutting Waste is a Family Affair Brita Belli

Ed Begley, Jr., widely regarded as America’s most environmentally aware actor—the one by which other green celebrities are measured—has never tired of the years of effort he and his family have made in making their home as green [ … ]

Signature Dishes from the Garden or Farmers’ Market Judith Fertig

Going green—at least on our plates—has never been easier. Every season, it seems that more varieties of fresh greens are available at farmers’ markets and in selections of nursery plants or seeds for home gardeners. Not so lon [ … ]

A Good Spring Cleaning Flushes Out Fats and Toxins

 

Ann Louise Gittleman

Spring—when the natural world reawakens and bursts with renewed energy—is an ideal season to clean up our act. A cleansing diet to eliminate toxins from our body is as much a rite of spring as sweeping debris from our hom [ … ]

An Insider’s Guide to Sustainable Choices

 

Lisa Marshall

We’ve heard the buzz. America is in the midst of a food revolution. Sales of natural and organic foods are up by double digits. The once-obscure Locavore (eat local) movement has become a national phenomenon. Community supported agricult [ … ]

A Conversation with Nell Newman

 

Ellen Mahoney

Following in her famous parents’ footsteps, Nell Newman, daughter of actors and environmental activists Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, launched Newman’s Own Organics in 1993 with business partner Peter Meehan. She is also the author of The Newma [ … ]

Eight Easy Picks for Container Gardening

 

Barbara Pleasant

Humans have had good reasons to grow basil, rosemary and other culinary herbs for thousands of years. Edible herbal accents and aromas enhance the beauty and flavor of every dish they touch, be they sprigs of fresh parsley tossed into [ … ]