Weekend Reading

Time to play catchup on your reading...take the weekend to bone up on the organic, eco-fabulous and natural things going on in the world around you.

San Quentin Prison in San Francisco has the official first prison vegetable garden in California! What a wonderful way to use the earth available their as well as teach patience. Read the article here.

On March 28th Earth Hour will begin at 8:30 pm. Guess what NYC landmarks will be apart of this wonderful statement? Click here to find out

6 HUGE baby bottle manufacturers agree to stop making bottles with BPA plastic! Click here to read details and find out which brands you'll soon be able to purchase again.

Icelandic singer Bjork unveils a new Documentary with the environment at its core, read this article and find out where to see it...

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Kiehl's & Brad Pitt Serve It Up Right

Brad Pitt, no stranger to good deeds has partnered with Kiehl's to create a 100% biodegradable Aloe Vera Liquid Body Cleanser that benefits the environmental initiative Make It Right, which you may know as Brad Pitt's New Orleans re-building efforts to help Hurricane Katrina victims get in their own homes, environmentally sustainable that is. Here's a link to the Make It Right website, I urge you all to take a moment, check it out and do what you can to help, it's a great organization: http://www.makeitrightnola.org/

*100% biodegradable
*100% post-consumer recycled bottle
*No parabens, SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) or dyes
*Cradle to Cradle certified (has reached the criteria which assesses the environmental and human effects of products based on the following: 1.The product has minimal-negative environmental impact 2. Product packaging has been approved for recycling or composting 3. Product is made/manufactured using renewable energy & socially responsible uses of water)

Not only is Brad Pitt a wonderful actor, father and philanthropest, but now he's reaching out to extend his environmental initiatives to Kielh's, only expanding his empire, and a good one indeed!

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