Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are you have a pretty good idea that plastics are destroying our environment. Whales ingest plastic bags thinking its food, birds getting tangled up in it, dolphins suffocate when it gets caught over their blowholes. We’ve managed to create a giant floating island (or maybe it’s more [...]
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I know this is a post that people have been curious about, so here it is. I wrote a few weeks ago about our plan to eat the placenta after Kaiya’s birth. It was much less labor intensive than I had expected and with a little help from my mom, we had the placenta cleaned, [...]
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I don’t usually re-post blogs from other websites, but this one by Tim Ferris (you know, the 4 Hour Work Week Guy?), is important for everyone to read. I’m a big advocate of knowing where our food comes from, be it the eggs that we fry up with toast for breakfast, the milk that we [...]
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We’ve taken Charlottetown by storm! Last week we were interviewed by local reporter, Steve Bruce, about our lives without a fridge. This story has sparked quite a debate online, which you can check out here. Enjoy!
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Like many products that fill the store shelves, dish soap is full of chemicals that are detrimental to our health. I pulled the list of ingredients off of Palmolive Dish Soap out of curiosity, here’s what I found. Not only does Palmolive have 12 ingredients, most of which I can’t pronounce, but it also has [...]
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In April I posted about the benefits of barefoot running and began incorporating barefoot and minimalist shoe running into my routine. After pushing through some setbacks, I’ve built up enough strength In my legs and feet that I can now comfortably manage about 15 miles a week without shoes. I’ve enjoyed the feeling of the [...]
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Sunday evening was winding down and after a hectic weekend, all I wanted to do was lie on the couch and not move. I had been scrolling through Project Free TV looking for a documentary to watch and for some reason or another, felt compelled to click on the link, “Run from the Cure: The [...]
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Long gone are the days of perfectly chilled food. As you know, we unplugged our refrigerator in January in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint and for the challenge of doing something slightly radical. It’s been 5 months now and while its been rough going at times (think frozen milk in February and stinky [...]
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I’m sure I don’t have to convince you that things like bleach and Draino are bad, not only for us, but for the water systems they contaminate. But even if we know something’s bad, there’s the convience factor and all that damn marketing that have made these products staples in our homes. But it doesn’t [...]
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