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Sneak Peak! Summer Edition 2010 of That’s Natural!
Saturday, June 12th, 2010The Garden Project Survey
Saturday, March 13th, 2010By: Kara Finger
Abstract-
From October 2009 through December 2009, using non-probability sampling tools including an online survey, a paper survey and personal interviews, data was collected from the citizens of Pueblo, Colorado to determine if there was an interest in and/or desire for curbside recycling, composting and community gardens. Results strongly indicate there is an interest in participating in and a willingness to support these programs. Recommendations as a result of this project include making any subsequent recycling program as convenient and inclusive as possible for every household. It is also recommended that those interested in creating successful recycling programs provide education and most importantly model desired recycling behavior and encourage friends and neighbors to follow suit to create the most successful outcomes.
For the rest of this story and study, see Page 3 of That’s Natural! Quarter 1, 2010 – here: http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web
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Good Health Naturally – Exercise
Saturday, March 13th, 2010By: Darlene Hopkins
If you ask most health professionals, “which is the more important, diet or exercise?” they will say, “exercise!” Why? Because your body replaces each and every cell in your body at least once every six months. Most are replaced every three months. If we are exercising our cells are healthier therefore they can uptake more nutrients. It all seems so simple. I quote from Dr. Henry S. Lodge.
“You choose whether those new cells come in stronger, or weaker. You choose whether they grow or decay each day from then on. Your cells don’t care which choice you make. They just follow the directions you send. Exercise, and your cells get stronger; sit down, and they decay.”
Read the complete story on Page 7 of That’s Natural! Quarter 1, 2010 here: http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web
Health Care Reform
Saturday, March 13th, 2010By: Carl Borden
Wow, this health care reform bill is exciting, such big changes to our health care system. OH wait it really seems to be a reform for better ways to pay for insurance, not to really improve our Health and wellbeing. I am not sure, nor is any one else, what this reform will truly bring, we can theorize and debate until we are blue in the face, but the truth is we will not know how it will truly work out until it is implemented in to our lives. Then we will know. One thing I do know is that to really reform our health care system, we need to start at home, “We The People” are the only ones that can really improve our health care.
We need to start at home, we need to make the effort to make positive changes in our health and create a Wellness System not, a wait-until-you’re- really-sick system. What if we used our wonderful technology as the emergency backup system for our health and we depended much more on natural means for maintaining our heath? Mankind has used natural healing since he has been on earth, it obviously works, we are here. Ancient man has survived unbelievable health concerns and for the most part he only had the human touch and his healing intentions to help him get through it. Those benefits are still here today, most likely called alternative/complimentary medicine, (a more natural way of healing and maintaining our health). What if we all used all the natural sources of healing first, then if needed progress to the use of our modern technology.
Read the whole story on Page 7 of That’s Natural! Quarter 1, 2010 – here: http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web
Sustainability From the Start – The Simplicity of Sustainability
Saturday, March 13th, 2010By: Angela Beery
When I think about sustainable living, I think about simplicity. It was Leonardo DaVinci who said “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Living sustainably not only makes sense – it’s simply genius! It follows the laws and order of the universe. It obeys the “House Rules” plaque my great-grandmother has posted on her bathroom wall – “If you sleep on it – make it up. If you wear it – hang it up. If you drop it – pick it up. If you dirty it – clean it up.” Sustainable living is the ultimate common sense.
The simplicity of sustainability makes life easier and more economical in all areas – including when it comes to raising young children. It’s easier because you need less. It’s more economical, again, because you need less. Raising a sustainable-minded family proves that less is indeed more.
You can read the rest of the story on Page 6 of That’s Natural! Quarter 1, 2010 – here: http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web
Forest Gardens, Part I
Friday, March 12th, 2010By: Becky Elder
Talk with a tree. Have tea with a shrub. Listen to a flower… Plants can help people maintain a spiritual relationship with the planet. Let the work of living mulch, worms and the soil organisms satisfy a gardener’s heart.
Care for the earth, care for people and share the abundance are the base ethics of permaculture for living sustainably on the Earth and sharing the wealth of the organic. Forest gardening holds that philosophy connecting back into nature. Like French-intensive gardening, a forest garden is packed with food and function to make small produce big and works to increase the output of the land while improving the land’s health. These gardens can be beautiful and walk in tune with meditation gardens, children’s gardens and xeriscapes.
Read the Entire Story on Page 9, That’s Natural! Quarter 1, 2010, here: http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web
Transition Town
Friday, March 12th, 2010By Brian Fritz
The first training for Transition Town in the United States took place in Boulder, Colorado, in September 2008. Since then there have been multiple Transition Town Initiatives emerging throughout the country, with 15 of those in Colorado alone.
The Transition Town Initiative was developed in the United Kingdom in 2006 by Rob Hopkins, a permaculture teacher, as a practical model for allowing communities to reduce their dependency on a fossil fuel-based infrastructure, develop greater local resilience and re-localize the community resource base. This includes all areas of the community resource: food and energy production, security and access, local economy, health care, education, transportation, etc
See the complete article on Page 10 of That’s Natural! Quarter 1 of 2010 here:
http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web