December 2011
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How To Find Your Purpose
Category: Balance
1 in 10 adults take antidepressants.
That number is surprising. In fact, the same research found that only a third of the people in the study with symptoms of depression are taking medication. That is a huge percent of people in the world that are depressed.
This information has me thinking about life, purpose, and the real reasons for depression.
I don’t have all the...
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3 Skills Your Kids Learn From Cooking
Often people feel stressed and hurried during the holiday season. With all of the to-do lists, wrapping presents, sending cards, making treats and preparing meals, it can feel like you have less time with your children. However, you can include your children in accomplishing your tasks. You can spend quality time with your kids or grandkids and get things done. It may take a little longer, but...
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Apple Browned Butter Bread
Everyone that knows me knows I am a proponent of the “slow” food movement. Â I love buying seasonal, local (when possible) Â ingredients and making real food. Â I believe in traditional and, whenever possible, organic ingredients making nutrient dense wholesome food my family will love. Â I don’t believe in “low-fat” for the sake of “low-fat” and this...
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Treat Your Body Right During the Holidays
This is the time of year when it is easy to lose track of our healthy eating practices. We make exceptions for overeating and eating things we wouldn’t normally put in our bodies because it’s the holiday season. Then, when January rolls around, our bodies feel sluggish and heavy, and we regret our unhealthy decisions. This holiday season, consider fasting to help maintain your...
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Giving the Gift of Health
During the holidays it can be very difficult to find that perfect gift. Often it seems that our friends and family have everything the need or want, and that special, thoughtful, something eludes us. North American shoppers plan to spend an average of $646 dollars on Christmas this year, according to American Research Group, Inc. Put your gift dollars to work and give thoughtful presents, that...
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Merry Christmas from The Organic Blonde Family
We are having an amazing Christmas this year! We didn’t do a lot of gifts this year but the spirit of Christmas has really taken over our home. We came back from a trip to Georgia (the country guys, not the state) and were reminded of what Christmas really means, something very easy to lose track of living in an Islamic country much of the year.
We came home, put up our tree with our...
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The Environment vs. The Economy
In the past few years, as the global economy has struggled, Northern Americans’ priorities have shifted. Does higher unemployment effect how people care for the environment? Will we be able to resuscitate the economy and transform how we care for the environment? The answers seems to be yes and no.
Two Factors
In the United States, there are two big factors in the environmental protection...
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Hydroponics and Sustainability
When we shop at the grocery store for fresh produce you see a variety of labels including organic, and hydroponic. You may have wondered what exactly hydroponic means and if there is a difference between organic and hydroponic, or if one is better than the other.
The most basic definition of hydroponics is the act of growing plants with water instead of soil. The science of hydroponics uses...
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Fair Trade Coffee
It is a daily ritual of many North Americans to wake up and turn on the coffee pot. Some people drink a cup a day and others drink multiple pots of coffee every day. According to globalexchange.org, “The United States consumes one-fifth of all of the world’s coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world.” But while the coffee is brewing and the aroma wafts through the...
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Earthships
The last article in our series on housing discussed, the Tiny House Movement, going smaller in order to go green. The Tiny House Movement is revolutionizing the way people think about space and what their needs truly are. Another form of eco-conscious housing is called the Earthship. Earthships consider the systems already occurring in nature and devise a way for housing to fit into those systems....
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Eco-Conscious Neighborhoods
The last few weeks we have been discussing eco-friendly housing. Individual houses can do a lot to care for and preserve the environment, but can whole neighborhoods? There are a few communities around the United States that are seeking to be environmentally conscious as a collective body rather than only individual homes.
What makes a neighborhood eco-conscious?
Cars
Let’s start with...
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Cancer as Business?
Cancer is a scary, invasive disease that infects an incredible amount of people. Most of us have experienced the devastating impacts of cancer, either through our own experience or walking through it with a friend or a relative. There is hope, treatments are becoming significantly more effective and a cure is may be on the way. Unfortunately, cancer may also be a money making enterprise. The same...
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Arcanatura Tick'd Off Review
My pets are my fur babies. I want them to live for a very long time and consequently I feed them an organic diet and use the highest quality products I can find to bathe them, supplement their diets and provide them with soft organic cotton beds for them to lay around when they aren’t sleeping with me. There are many companies that provide pet products claiming to be healthy and natural...
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Love in a Cup: Italian Hot Chocolate
It has always confounded me how any self respecting chocolate lover could think about opening up a packet of “hot cocoa” powder, mix it with water and call it hot chocolate. I have never quite “gotten” the idea of making hot chocolate with anything other than milk and real chocolate. It’s just never occurred to me to make it any other way. Italian hot chocolate or...
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$200 Holiday Cash Giveaway
The Organic Blonde, Nurtured Beauty, and Urban Roots Market are doing one last giveaway in time for last minute holiday shopping. Last minute gifts or fresh ingredients for a family dinner, whatever you need to make this holiday season healthy, happy and special, an extra $200 is up for grabs.
Entry is open World Wide 18 and over. You MUST have a valid paypal address that can receive money to...
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Which Christmas Tree is Greener?
There are people on both sides of the Christmas tree debate, some claiming artificial trees are more environmentally friendly, and others choosing the real thing. It seems most research is showing that cutting down a fresh tree each year is actually better, but when we account for everything that goes into getting a tree in our home, be it real or fake, things quickly get murky.
In the United...
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Proud Co-Host of Battle of the Leading Men
I am so honored to be asked to co-host in the Battle of the Leading Men Co-Host Party. I look forward to this contest every week and it won’t take long until you are hooked too! Enjoy!
You didn’t know that you could find a romantic retreat on a Mom blog, did you?
Welcome to Battle of The Leading Men!
Your Romantic Getaway…
Would you like to play?
Caution!…Shirtless...
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Spirit Beauty Lounge $50 Gift Card Giveaway
Spirit Beauty Lounge is one of those online boutiques that I say I am going to buy a few things I need and end up buying half the store. Last time I shopped, I went looking for an eyeliner I needed and $400 later, I had a shopping cart full of products I couldn’t live without. This is an organic beauty and lifestyle shop you will not be able to resist.
With lines like RMS Beauty (our...
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Five Ideas for a Green, Meaningful Holiday Season
Every year it seems like the holiday season sneaks up and finds me unprepared. When this happens, I respond to all of life’s demands by letting other people and circumstances dictate my actions, instead of taking time to plan how I want to spend the holiday season. By the time January rolls around, I am drained. Meaningful, organic, healthy holiday traditions are the things that keep me...
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MJs Herbals Salves Review and Giveaway
I have just found the HOLY GRAIL of healing salves in 5 little pots. I’m not even exaggerating one little bit. MJs Herbals are little miracles in each pot!  As you all know, I test every product I review and recommend and this has to be one of the best.  Each pot is handcrafted using the purest most active ingredients available.  Every one of the salves is multi-use heals and nourishes...
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World AIDS Day
We at The Organic Blonde support today and World AIDS Day. Join ONE.org, a grassroots advocacy and campaigning agency dedicated to creating new opportunities to heal poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa, and (RED), an organization that harnasses the power of companies and people to help fight AIDS in Africa, along with The Organic Blonde and millions of others around the...
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Kaia Naturals Bamboo Cleansing Cloth Review and...
I don’t know how many women I have tried to convince to give up their facial cleansing cloths and switch to something much more natural than the chemical laden monstrosities I believe all conventional wipes (those things that look like baby wipes) should be banned with their ingredients being some of the most irritating  and potentially toxic chemicals in the cosmetic industries.  One such...
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Win $200 Paypal Cash for the Holidays
This is the season we all have been waiting for. Many people are showing love and appreciate to all loved ones this season. Is been a long journey from the month of January to December, and we still remain grateful for all your supports and contributions on the things that makes us happy. One-moment-in-time, Makobi Scribe, The Organic Blonde and 7 other wonderful blogs are giving away $200...
