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    Food, Inc. – Nature as throughput

    I and several like minded girlfriends got together last night to view the movie, Food, Inc.  The FDA is in the midst of passing laws that involve trying to keep our food safe.  Even if you live in a vacuum, the news of tainted food is getting to you. It’s been in peanut butter, poultry, spinach, tomatoes, beef to name a few. If you are a soap and/or cosmetics maker, you are aware of cosmetics being lumped into this same bucket. It is only recently that the subjects have been separated a bit.   Food, Inc. was not as graphic as I was expecting yet the pictures helped drive home the point.…

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    Eco-Tie Dye, working out the kinks

    As the summer fades and school starts, kidlet and I are feverishly marking off things on our summer list of things to do.  One neat art project on the list is Eco- Tie Dye Tshirts that we saw on the show Emeril Green.  While we most certainly are cooking show fanatics, Emeril Green is not one of our usual shows.  I happened on this particular episode on Eco- Birthday Parties because of Jenn Savedge of  “The green parent“.   She mentioned on her facebook page that she was featured in this particular Emeril Green show. Did you know that Jenn is a former park ranger? Neat thing I didn’t know about her!  Anyhoo, off to the…