Archive for December, 2009

The True Cost of CFL’s

By tianareeves • Dec 22nd, 2009 • Category: Health Highlights, Uncategorized

Compact Fluorescent  Lights have a heavy environmental and health cost and may not even save energy when the total cradle to grave footprint is factored in. CFL’s require 16 times more energy to produce than incandescent bulbs. The majority of electrical energy used to produce CFL’s  comes from coal burning plants in China.  This is [...]



Nature’s Order for Getting Well

By tianareeves • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Fitness and nutrition, Health Highlights

Everything in nature has an order and a rhythm. According to author Donna Gates of “The Body Ecology Diet” many people are not getting well because they have not understood or followed the order the body requires for wellness. The foundation of health and the number one step is to create a hearty inner ecosystem [...]



H1N1 Fatality Rates-An Overreaction?

By tianareeves • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Health Highlights

Experts say the rates of death and serious illness from H1N1 are far  from the levels initially predicted by the pandemic alert. In early  November 2009, Harvard University researchers released their findings which showed H1N1 related deaths have so far been the same or lower compared to regular flu. Data for 2009 from the US  [...]



The Paint-Less Coca-Cola Can

By edlau • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog, Features, News

Who says big business can’t help out the environment?  Let’s see if Coke is willing to make this change in their marketing and production.
It’s a seemingly small change but considering the amount of Coke being sold each day, reducing the production and recycling process by a single step and removing the amount of paint used [...]