50 Shades of Green: More Than Skin
After sitting with founder and CEO of La Ishá Natural & Organic Skincare, Sharon Gnatt Epel, I had a hard time defining her. I’d probably place her qualities somewhere in between that of Mother Theresa and Oprah: successful, humble, and genuine – although I have a feeling she might describe herself as a realist and...
50 Shades of Green: To Nuke or Not to Nuke?
From leftover lunches, lean cuisines, and ready-made meals nuking food is the norm for meal times these days. While a common place practice, radiating your morning Toaster Strudle is still a fairly new concept. The first microwave, invented in 1947, by Percy Spencer was somewhat accidental, while studying magnetrons the inventor noticed a nearby snack...
50 Shades of Green: GMO 101
OMG, GMOs WTF? Genetically modified organisms are being talked about more and more these days, the subject gaining popularity by the many controversies surrounding the topic. A genetically modified organism is exactly what the title infers- an organism that has been genetically modified. If you can think of it, scientists have probably tried to genetically alter it...
50 Shades of Green: The Taste Factory
Where do you imagine your food comes from, if you even think about it before you eat it? My first thoughts are gardens, trees, and farms- but if we are truly being honest with ourselves it probably comes from a factory not much unlike that of Willy Wonka. The delectable side dishes: Rice-A-Roni, Hamburger Helper...
50 Shades of Green: Rumblings of a Ruminant
We’ve all heard of mad cows, cattle who are infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurodegenerative disease that causes the spongy deterioration of the brain and spinal cord. When the outbreak first took flight, little was known about the orientation of the disease. The cause has since been determined, that when you feed a normally herbivorous...
50 Shades of Green: Fodder for the Feed
If it walks like a chicken, sounds like a chicken, and looks like a chicken, then one should be able to safely assume it’s a chicken. What happens if that’s not the case, what if the chicken is more like the radiated and mutated three eyed fish from the Simpsons, then the more marginally envisioned picturesque chicken...
50 Shades of Green: MPB meets MVP
You may recall an article from last October covering Corbin Clay, a seasoned Denver craftsman vying for your votes in GQ and Ketel One “A Gentleman’s Call” competition. The tally’s in and this local artisan beat out more than 12,000 contest entrants along with four other semi finalists, receiving $100,000 to invest in his own wood working...
50 Shades of Green: Mother Manufacturer or Mother Nature?
It’s no surprise that Oreo’s or Coca Cola or anything that comes packaged with its convoluted ingredient labels are manufactured, but what about fish, or fruit and veggies, or milk even? Would it surprise you that corn grown in the 1950′s contained 150 IUs of vitamin A (international units) compared to today’s corn only containing 201 IUs. Or...
50 Shades of Green: Green Eaters’ Mantra
In a time before there were designer farmer markets and natural/organic sections (Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Sprouts, etc…) food was organic, it wasn’t gown in waste sludge with pesticides and genetically modified. Food wasn’t colored, dyed, filled with additives and preservatives, scented, irradiated, packaged and then labeled as a food like substance. Food used to...
50 Shades of Green: Out with the old…
And in with the new… We’ll get organized this year, lose weight, exercise more, stress less, be nicer to our neighbors, and start recycling or some other various resolution that leads to the elusive path of transcendentalism. I’m not going to try and convince you that you should start recycling as part of your New...
50 Shades of Green: Time for a Change
As an expectant mother you never want to hear about one more chemical laden product that you need to avoid, the list is never ending: soaps, lotions, clothing, bottles, toys, laundry detergent etc… So imagine my angst when I heard a rumor about diapers containing toxic chemicals. My first thought was my initial guilt over...
50 Shades of Green: More Myrrh
Frankincense and myrrh, known as one of the gifts presented to the baby Jesus by the three wise men and a popular Christmas time scent, this precious liquid has been around for thousands of years. During biblical times the liquid was literally worth its weight in gold and throughout history has played a role in...
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