Today’s consumer has a wide variety of personal care products to choose from. Soaps, shampoos, creams and lotions come in an extensive range of prices and all promise some sort of improvement to your appearance.
However the potential risks are often overlooked or dismissed. Choosing a safe product that is also eco-friendly is particularly difficult because there is no common regulation that would help a consumer …
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All summer I’ve been hunting for a place to learn how to tighten my brakes and tune my gears – and now I’ve found one!
The Bike House, a newly formed co-op dedicated to helping all people work on, learn about and enjoy bikes, has a free bike clinic every Saturday. From 1-3pm at Qualia Coffee in Petworth, stop by to get your …
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Food for Thought: How Big (Bully) Business Rules the Roost(er)
According to the website for the film Food, Inc., “…filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has …
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Meal in a Box?
One of the delights of participating in community supported agriculture is not knowing what food you’ll get from week to week. One box from your farm may contain bok choy, broccoli, garlic scapes and other goodies. And another may hold cherry tomatoes, shallots, eggplant and more. These welcome surprises can inspire delicious experiments, and one experiment is to put everything together in one dish without a …
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It is hard to find people who don’t like traveling. Traveling gives us opportunities to see new places, to make new friends, to broaden our horizons and to escape from every day routine. With our current economic situation, some of us might have been forced to cut our vacation short and …
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