Sounds True: A Spiritually Minded Company

Sounds True: A Spiritually Minded Company Built on Serving Purpose, People and Profit

In 1985, Tami Simon only knew she wanted to build a company that would put spiritual wisdom directly into the hands of people who needed it. She didn’t know exactly how she would do that at the time, but 26 years later, her idea has become a successful multimedia publishing company offering books, audio recordings, downloadable media, CD’s and DVD’s. Every item offered seeks to inspire the transformation [...]

Sustainable Summer Reading List

Top Book Picks to Enhance Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle

If you’re ready to start stocking up on great books for your summer reading list, we have a few suggestions.  From gardening and decorating to crafts and fiction, these sustainable living books will keep you entertained by the pool, on the beach, or while you’re relaxing in the backyard.

Gardening and Landscaping

Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman:  Learn how to enjoy fresh, organic vegetables year-round from your own backyard.

Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies by [...]

Sci-Fi Goes Green with New Novel, "Pollen"

The first ‘eco-super hero’, a friendly visitor from outer space, has come to warn humans of the impeding doom we have created through our lack of environmental concern in the new sci-fi thriller, “Pollen and the Ring of Harmony” by Francis T. Perry Williams.

Geared toward young adults, as well as sci-fi lovers of all ages, “Pollen” blends truth with fiction to bring a powerful wake-up call to the world. Pollen treks across America to bring his message to the [...]

Eco Chic Design by Emily Anderson

When it comes to green lifestyles, there’s often a pretty serious aesthetic schism: on one hand, there are the crafters who prefer to make almost everything by hand, and on the other, high-end green consumers purchase luxury products with sustainable pedigrees. For those who long to bring the worlds of DIY and eco-chic closer together, designer Emily Anderson is a welcome voice of experience and innovation.

In 2007 she published a book called Eco-Chic Weddings, advising couples about how they could [...]

Flexitarian: Mostly Meatless

Back in the ’60s and ’70s, when vegetarianism was first catching on in the United States, the term was used more loosely than it is today. Any modern vegetarian, used to being offered fish or chicken by well-meaning hosts, will tell you that this word usage just isn’t practical.

Today, vegetarians generally agree that they won’t eat any food with a face. Still, with more and more households interested in the vegetarian movement but not willing to forgo meat entirely, there’s [...]

The Next Generation of Green Connoisseurs

For parents raising children in this day and age, the challenges are incredibly new and different from those just a generation ago. No generation in history has experienced as much technological growth or the increased availability of products that can be purchased to keep our children busy. From video games to television, cell phones to the internet, the children of today are growing up in a world less connected to nature than ever before. As wildlife artist Robert Bateman said, [...]

The My Natural Dr. Seuss Collection Brings Organic Playtime to Suessville

Eco-friendly plush toys and nontoxic infant accessories are the perfect way to share the literary gems and legends of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss Enterprises has partnered with Hosung NY, Inc to bring Seuss fans and eco-conscious parents an all natural, chemical-free collection of affordable and adorable Seuss-inspired toys.

The My Natural product line is an extension of the Lorax Project, the Seuss eco-initiative that promotes environmental awareness and helps to support earth-friendly living. Scheduled for launch in the [...]

REAL FOOD IN SCHOOLS DAY

We think of Labor Day as a time to consider the working lives of adults, but this September 7th, why not do something active for the working lives of children? Slow Food and other local organizations are sponsoring a National Action Day to Get Real Food into Schools. In case you don’t know it, the national school lunch system is in need of serious overhaul. Jan Poppendieck, whose prior work has been on emergency food, non-profits, government accountability, and hunger, [...]

Lawns, Weeds, and Good Reads

It’s the end of the summer and you have a little bit more time to read something inspiring before the pace picks up, but you’ve got this expanse of grass that needs attention. After all, the neighbors are starting to notice that you’ve fired the landscaping service, ditched the chemical enhancements, and started pushing that reel mower around for exercise, giving up half way through after making an interesting circular pattern through the knee-high dandelions.

Well, Nancy Gift knows how to [...]

Dean’s Beans Brews Justice

Fair trade coffee is more visible, possible, and drinkable these days. At the same time, questions remain about how much of the mainstream daily grind is sustainably produced (most big coffee companies are better at marketing their fair trade than actually implementing it). And if you’re like a lot of green advocates, you want your coffee to have a local footprint, too. That’s the best approach, but if it’s not possible, consider creating your own blend from the Kings of [...]