Day #2 of Water Week: Green Washing

Mar 23, 2010 | Go Green

Tweet When life hands you lemons, there is often an opportunity to make lemonade. Last week, one of my daughters cleaned her room by overloading our wash machine with all the clothes that had been festering on her floor. This overload of laundry caused my 10+ year old...

Water: The Best Beverage

Mar 22, 2010 | Better Health, Go Green

Tweet In all of my years as a health professional, teacher and consultant,  I’ve been telling patients, clients and students the same thing about what to drink.  It’s really simple. Drink water. As a dentist in private practice, I worked hard to convince...

Resilience

Mar 15, 2010 | Go Green

Tweet re·sil·ience Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ Function: noun 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change...

Michelle & Jamie, Let’s Talk About Oil

Feb 11, 2010 | Better Health, Go Green

Tweet Things are looking up when it comes to the health of our kids. Two days ago, Michelle Obama announced a comprehensive initiative to end childhood obesity in a generation. The program, Let’s Move includes a broad base of smart ideas, like eliminating food...

Slow Cooking Up a Solution

Jan 25, 2010 | Better Health, Go Green

Tweet The more I learn about building movements, the more I appreciate my Crock Pot. My  handy slow cooker has taught me much about fixing good food for my family  along with the fine art of patience and persistence. This morning, I popped loads of veggies into my...

What’s Cheap Oil Got To Do With It?

Jan 24, 2010 | Go Green

Tweet I’m not talking about the kind of cheap oil that goes into Girl Scout Cookies and other forms of industrialized junk food. Its the oil that comes out of the ground that I’m thinking about! Created tens of thousands of years ago from prehistoric...