I didn’t start out as an environmentalist. I started out helping urban kids in trouble and I burned out, going to way too many funerals and court cases that turned out badly. I was just trying to get my own health back. I went to these retreat Centers in Marin County, and it was a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I do holistic healing and health. I’m in the process of getting my license for holistic consultation and prescribing. I grow my own herbs, dry them and bottle them. I’m learning from trial and error as I go along. With my first child I made some mistakes with the holistic stuff. Puma my daughter she’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The economy is in trouble, but we already knew that. So what’s new? Well, 144 top economists were surveyed by the New York University School of Law and most agree climate change is a threat to the United States and the global economy. 84% of those surveyed agreed the effects of greenhouse gases on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: “man, woman and child” by Tracy Collins I chose this photo because sometimes I think we forget why the environment is important and who we take care of the environment for. Former Special Advisor for Green Jobs to the White House Van Jones was and I’m sure still is a strong advocate for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo credit: Getty Images LAS VEGAS – AUGUST 11: Van Jones with the White House Council on Environmental Quality tours a LEED-certified building on the UNLV campus during the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 August 11, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Political and economic leaders are attending a two-day summit to discuss a domestic policy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Publisher Merriam-Webster has offered new words for 2009 to be entered into their dictionaries. “Many of the new words address: concerns about the environment (carbon footprint, green collar), government activities (earmark, waterboarding),” and “pop culture (docusoap, fan fiction, flash mob, reggaeton)”. This year it seems there is some controversy though and not just from grammar […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: solar panels on a 15th century old manor by Eric Delalonde Van Jones, founder of Green For All, has been an advocate of what we as of late have rather casually been calling “green jobs”. My understanding is that green jobs include what is called retro fitting and building weatherization upgrades. In their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here in my first post on So Fresh and So Green I would like to shed some light on why I got into this in the first place and what you can expect here. What I’d like to do here is make this site a crossroads for ideas and information. So I’ve divided things into […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
