Safe Soap

Keeping your family germ-free while reducing your dependence on petroleum- and chemical-filled products is a difficult endeavor. Lately it seems as though petroleum byproducts and corn syrup derivatives are in most products, even when they don’t seem necessary. Petroleum is often found in various fuel types, plastics, detergent and many other daily household products. The effort to shrink [...]

The Treehugger’s Guide To Hangover Prevention

So it turns out a dinner of samosas and four dirty martinis doesn’t make for a pleasant night’s sleep. But, after years of drinking and all the usually hangover helpers, I think I’ve stumbled upon a secret. If you are prone to tossing your cookies, or detoxing, shall we say, after a few too many [...]

Entrepreneur Profile: Little Duck Organics

A recovery from the worst recession in about seven decades may not seem like the ideal time to start a new food business, but Zak Normandin forged ahead. With a Just Do It kind of attitude, the New Hampshire-based professional and co-founder of design house Redwood Concepts started an organic dried fruits business called Little [...]

NYC’s New Museum Gets Swanky Cafe

Modern downtown art institution the New Museum has partnered with Flatiron’s City Bakery to offer amazing cafe food within the contemporary museum. The brainchild of City Bakery Founder Maury Rubin, sustainable bakery Birdbath supplies beverages and food for the museum cafe and also handles catering. Birdbath is a sustainable bakery with locavores and organic consumers [...]

Monsanto, BASF To Add GMO Wheat

Agricultural giants Monsanto and Germany’s BASF announced on July 7 joint plans to make genetically modified wheat. The addition will be the fifth in their collaboration, which already includes corn, soy, cotton and canola. According to the new agreement, the two companies will invest about $1 billion during the collaboration. The duo will focus on [...]

Fruit Kids Will Eat: Snacks That Pass Our Test

Getting kids to eat fruit or vegetables after the age of two usually involves juice(s) or fruit disguised as fun snacks. Parents seeking healthy snacks can now add Funky Monkey freeze dried fruit snacks to the list of suitable lunchbox additions. Made from 100% fruit, the snacks are gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, peanut and tree nut-free. [...]

10 Trends To Hit Grocers In 2010

The 10 trends to hit supermarkets this year include more environmentally friendly plastics, skincare-cum-clothing products, energy and relaxation drinks, and the use of bamboo across many categories, according to Datamonitor’s Product Launch Analytics report. Among the strange predictions are meat-flavored products, such as Das Lolli Man Bait (meat flavored lollipops), Mo’s Dark Bacon Bar and [...]

Beauty for Peace

Kiss My Face has demonstrated that every company need not wait until Breast Cancer awareness month to get involved in the global community and support worthy causes. The launch of Peace Soap shows KMF is not only a trendsetter in the beauty business, but it is also a socially conscious company. KMF had natural products on the market years [...]

The Organic Bender

If you’re planning to get sloshed, why do you need the booze to be organic? The answer depends on the person. But, if you are willing to pay a few more bucks for organic fruit, eggs or milk, why not for your booze? Need we remind you that alcohol is made from fruits and vegetables? [...]

The New Dairy Alternative: Hemp’s Future

A milk alternative hardly seems cause for protest or legislation but in the case of hemp, all of the above are justified. One might liken the resource as a criminal put in jail without a fair trial, convicted with DNA evidence, for the natural resource has the potential to be as successful as bamboo when [...]

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