The holidays, meant to be a time of peace, reflection, and celebration, too often exhaust rather than uplift us. If you sometimes feel trapped by the shopping, spending, and frenzied preparations, you aren’t alone. Do you want more of what matters, not just more stuff? This year, you don’t have to rack up credit card… Read more »
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Starting Our Winter Kitchen Garden
Homegrown compost and seeds — a good mix for the Florida winter vegetable garden. We’ve already harvested cucumbers and radishes. The winter garden feast begins!
Kinship
By Ursula Le Guin Very slowly burning, the big forest tree stands in the slight hollow of the snow melted around it by the mild, long heat of its being and its will to be root, trunk, branch, leaf, and know earth dark, sun light, wind touch, bird song. Rootless and restless and warmblooded, we… Read more »
Sherry Turkle – Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology
Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us or shaping it toward human purposes, even toward honoring what we hold dear. Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, is full of usable ideas — from how to declare email bankruptcy, to creating sacred spaces, to teaching… Read more »
Could an Organic Twinkie Be Nutritious?
We tend to agree that an organic apple is more nutritious than a non-organic apple. Does it follow that an organic Twinkie is more nutritious than a non-organic Twinkie. Would we unconsciously elevate the Twinkie to the nutritional level of an apple if it had on organic label on it? Organic has become big business…. Read more »
Health and Wellness in America Report
Health and wellness is going mainstream and national marketers are taking notice. They have begun to research the health and wellness market, creating consumer profiles, including segmentation personas, that quantify consumer health aspirations and purchase behaviors. Although the research instigates expedient marketing strategies by big manufacturers and retailers, local merchants can benefit by being aware… Read more »
BoomAgers: Marketing’s Next Home Run
The largest, wealthiest generation in history is now retiring at a rate of 10,000 per day a trend that will continue every day for the next 17 years. The better part of the nearly 80 million Baby Boomers are now in the process of “reverse commuting” — shifting their focus from the workplace to the… Read more »
Benefits of Listing Your Business in a Niche Directory
A niche directory listing is one of the most effective and least expensive ways to get targeted traffic from the exact customers you’re trying to reach. Search engines put a lot of weight on topic-related backlinks, and being listed in a high-ranking niche site, which is monitored by humans, is invaluable. Wholylocal is the niche… Read more »
GMO OMG
GMOs — genetically modified organisms — pervade as much as 80% of conventional processed food in the United States. How do these miracle seeds, propagandized as the seeds to feed world, affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? These and other questions take filmmaker Jeremy Seifert to Haiti, Paris,… Read more »
The Non-GMO Project
You have the right to know what’s in the food you eat. The most common genetically engineered ingredients — corn, soy and canola oil — find their way into 70 percent of popular processed foods like breakfast cereal, cookies, chips, soda and frozen meals. Get the facts and find non-GMO choices at the Non-GMO Project…. Read more »
