I am a soap person. I love to try out new soaps, especially those sold at Whole Foods. The Whole Food stores near our home have truly amazing selections of soap. One of my more recent finds is True Body Soap.
The origins of True Body Products go back to a series of water-cooler sessions with [...]
Years ago, I was a coffee person. Everyday, I drank many cups of coffee. Still, when I became pregnant with our first child, I stopped. Somehow, I knew all that caffeine was probably not good for a growing baby. Although I still have a very occasional cup of coffee, I now drink tea. If you [...]
Years ago, when I worked as a community reporter, I covered a story on the raising of chickens in factory farms. I was appalled to learn about the horrendous conditions that must be endured by the vast majority of US raised chickens. I had already given up eating red meat. After that lecture, I stopped [...]
I’ve said this before. When you purchase non-Fair Trade coffee, you are allowing coffee buyers and coffee producing companies to make huge profits at the expense of impoverished coffee farmers. Fortunately, there are increasing numbers of companies selling Fair Trade organic coffee. One of these is Higher Ground. It is 100% fair trade, organic, and [...]
About a week ago, Dakota, our lab puppy, destroyed my husband’s last two warm hats. He had nothing to wear on his walks in the woods. So, while picking up his daily coffee at Whole Foods, he noted that the store sold Cagoule Fleece hats. These are made from 85% post-consumer recycled fibers obtained from [...]
Coffee. It sometimes costs several dollars for a cup. But, you probably already know that in most instances the coffee farmer, who often lives a barely subsistence life, receives only a tiny fraction of that amount. All too often, numerous middlemen — between the farmer and the consumer — take a disproportion amount of the [...]