Posted on 05 July 2008
Recently, after I reviewed another book on greening the fashion world, the publisher sent me a note saying that she had seen my site www.goodcleanlove.com and was going send me another new book she thought I would be interested in: Sex Secrets of Porn Stars.
I wondered if she had actually read anything on my site.
After [...]
Tags: Families
Posted on 18 June 2008
When I think of summer, I have this picture of long lazy days by the water, listening for the distant voices of my children while I wander off into a great book, quietly stepping into some new ways of thinking or sharing in the stories of life that change us just by hearing them. Ana [...]
Tags: Education, Sustainability
Posted on 06 June 2008
I was in our local hospital emergency room the other night. I was comforting my 10 year old daughter awaiting a surgical repair to her broken and dislocated arm. All the rooms were full with some degree of trauma and pain. This is not exceptional, emergency room visits occur over 114 million times a year [...]
Tags: Families, Sustainability
Posted on 27 April 2008
Well, Jez and I are now back from honeymoon and back to reality and our wedding day, although only two weeks ago, now seems like a distant happy memory. Wow, it flew by so past but that’s probably because we had such a fantastic time!
This post is just going to be brief but after so [...]
Tags: Families
Posted on 26 April 2008
Not long ago, after agreeing to review another book for GGG on greening the fashion world, the publisher sent me a note saying that after reviewing my site www.goodcleanlove.com, she was also going to send another new release that she thought I would be interested in; “Sex Secrets of Porn Stars”. I wondered if she [...]
Tags: Sustainability
Posted on 09 April 2008
As mine and Jez’s big day approaches and most of the preparations in place I thought I would steal a little time to reflect and share my experience in planning our eco and ethical wedding.
Right from the start we wanted our wedding to reflect our everyday values and beliefs, how we live and work. Although [...]
Tags: Fair Trade, Families, Gardening
Posted on 06 April 2008
Walking into your bedroom should make your heart rate slow down. It should be the place where you sigh deeply and your whole body relaxes. The bedroom is your nest. A singular space that both regenerates you on a cellular level every night as you sleep and provides the environment and impetus for physical intimacy. [...]
Tags: Sustainability
Posted on 25 March 2008
Have you ever considered whether good lives have to cost the earth? Well a diverse group of people have considered the question and their answers were documented in a book (with the question as the title) edited by Andrew Simms and Jo Smith.
Before I started reading the book I already had an answer to the [...]
Tags: Media, Sustainability
Posted on 20 February 2008
It isn’t just “in your head” anymore, an international study of two million people from over 70 countries confirms what many of us have always assumed: the happiest times in our life span make a “U” and with the “up times” early and late in life. In the middle of the dip are our middle [...]
Tags: Families, Human rights & peace, Sustainability
Posted on 15 February 2008
I think the day after Valentine’s Day is as good a day as any to let green girls know about a green wedding competition!
Ethical Weddings member and environmentally committed videographer, Jennifer Sabini Evans of BeanTime Productions is offering six hours of her time to 4 US couples who are having a Green Wedding in 2008!
To [...]