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This guest article has some interesting background on organic cotton.  It doesn’t mention that conventional cotton is grown with huge amounts of chemicals, which then remain in the soil. A few years ago, I thought of doing an organic cotton clothing website, but I couldn’t find enough sites to link to on the internet. Here’s one good place for organic cotton t-shirts:

Many of their designs have an organic option. — I buy organic cotton when I can. –  Zana

Organic Cotton – Leading a Return to the Simple Life

By Randy Pope

In the 1961 movie, “The Graduate”, a young Dustin Hoffman asks his college professor, upon graduating from college, “What do I do now?” To which the professor whispers, “plastics”. At the same time that the revolution against modest clothing captured the minds of America’s youth America began its love affair with synthetics. Now nearly one decade into the 21st century some of the aspects of the simple life are experiencing a come back. Read the rest of this entry »

A TV show on drought, fires, dust storms, and the future got me thinking. We stopped watching it part of the way through, as it was too sensational and just seemed meant to scare people.

It painted a very bleak picture of the future of the planet worldwide, and no doubt much of what was covered is possible. I hadn’t heard about the potential for plagues of locusts from Africa to cross the Mediterranean and strip bare southern Europe around 2025, but that’s the sort of thing that was presented.

My husband and I talked about the future after we gave up on the show. We thought of our god-daughter, now 4, and the other kids we know in that age group. She’s the little girl in the logo for this site. Read the rest of this entry »

This post originated on Yahoo Answers. I have consent to use it here on the blog. It is organized so that the question is in the blog post section, and the answers are in the comments part. Feel free to add your own thoughts.

I sift through the material I find there, to look for things that I think deserve wider dissemination. So this page is powered by Yahoo! Answers. — Zana

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I have been reading a number of articles about changing to hydrogen cars and how it would result in a decrease in pollution. While it is true a hydrogen car would be a number of times cleaner than a regular gas car, I have a few doubts about how clean the hydrogen making process would be.

If hydrogen is obtained from water, wouldn’t it require a great deal of energy to get the hydrogen out of it? Wouldn’t the energy required to do this come from oil and the more traditional non-green energy sources?

Overall, is the process for obtaining enormous amounts of hydrogen overall green at all?

Barbara Kingsolver opened my eyes to the locavore (local eating) movement and the importance of getting as much of your food as possible from nearby sources.

I love this book. I must have read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle three or four times, always savoring different aspects. As you can see below, not every oneone agrees with me, but that’s to be expected. I highly recommend it, now available as hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, you name it.

• ISBN13: 9780060852566
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they?d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Do you make your own cosmetics? It’s an enjoyable way to save some money and to try out different formulations in small batches to see what really suits you.

This is an area where you can be as conventional or as purist about ingredients as you wish. Some recipes that you will see do  use petroleum-based oils, some don’t. Some use dairy products, some don’t.

Here is a book at Amazon that includes a lot of easy formulations to make your own cosmetics: Organic Body Care Recipes. I looked at quite a few books before choosing this one to feature. It has some of the best ratings, yet there is also criticism of it. People will always disagree, I know, and opinions run strong on the topics of what is natural and suitable! I also looked around at some of the top websites listed for this subject, but none of them really jumped out at me.

These recipes are evidently pretty easy. To find out more, click on the book cover:

We just watched a one-hour documentary on TV called the Garbage Revolution and that link takes you to their site. A couple in Canada agreed to keep their garbage in their garage for 90 days, except for the “wet garbage” or organics, which fortunately did include the diapers produced by their third child, still a baby. Still, the smell in their garage got pretty bad, and there was one vivid shot of maggots. Read the rest of this entry »