Green Foods to Supercharge Your Health + 6 Green Foods to Eat Today
Green foods can be the answer for super health! Green foods are power packed with nutrients—energizing, detoxifying, rebuilding and immune strengthening.
What is BHT? Food Additive Banned in EU, Not in US
What is BHT, and why is it still allowed as a food additive in the US, when it’s banned in the EU?
Is there lead in your chocolate?
You might expect to see cocoa, sugar, cream, and even soy in your chocolate…but lead?!
Dumpster Diving, Food Waste, and Fighting Hunger: Rob Greenfield Shares His Story
Find out what led me to go around dumpster diving in the first place on this Green Divas Radio Show Green Dude segment. Then read on for more details.
The Best Bottled Water is Cheap, Safe, and Clean
What’s the best bottled water? It comes from the tap and goes into your reusable bottle!
Rocket Stove: Changing Lives with Efficient Cooking
A “rocket stove” sounds like something you’d expect to see in a science fiction movie, or even on a real space flight.
Where does that Earl Grey tea come from?
Tea is one of those commodities that should be subject to Fair Trade standards and in my humble opinion should be organic and non-GMO as well — for the enjoyment and health of the tea drinker as well as those who work on the farms, which are often in faraway places where the potential for unsafe and unfair practices has been common.
Green Diva Holidays: Eco-Friendly Foodie, Gift & Decorating Fun
Had an excellent ramblin holidaze show this week in the Green Divas Radio Show studio and am thrilled we were able to record AND podcast finally!
7 Ways to Become a Water Conservation Hero
Our Green Dude Segment was with Green Dude Antonio, who is a water purification expert with Pur2o. I’m always surprised by how much I actually don’t know and probably don’t want to know! Anyway, that segment inspired this post about water and water conservation.
6 Tips for Creating a Green Diva Kitchen
Morning shows are fun, but they are kind of rough on a Monday morning! I have a new respect for all those morning show professionals who do it 5 days a week! We had a great time with Ebru Today talking about getting greener in the kitchen. I kept my tips to things that were relatively easy, …
The Mother of All Grains for a Gluten-Free Rice Alternative
I don’t know about you, but all this news about arsenic in rice is a bummer for this gluten-free green diva! I LOVE rice, and it is the basis of most of the grain alternatives I’ve turned to to avoid gluten – ugh. Now, I realize that not ALL rice is laden with arsenic, but this is all a good lesson in not relying heavily on any one type of grain or food too heavily – moderation and variety are probably always key to balancing out some of the harmful effects of any one food.
In Season Now: APPLES!
When did apple picking become such a competitive sport? We went out with a couple of the kids and our grand kids this past weekend, and when we pulled up to the farm driveway and saw lots of official looking men with flags to direct traffic and that cars were already overflowing into a new parking field at 10am, we kind of knew we might be in for a serious adventure.
Green Divas & Dudes Prefer Organic Food
This green diva has to weigh in on all the buzz and banter about the latest study from Stanford about the lack of nutritional benefit from eating organic food. There is a lot of evidence that I wasn’t the only one irritated and quite surprised to see how this study was spun into a pro-chemical pesticide and fertilizer piece.