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Apple cider vinegar + honey = natural cough remedy

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:44:12 +0000

I found this home remedy for cough and it worked so well that I wanted to share it with everyone. The first night I tried it, my son threw up a bunch of phlegm after 5 minutes which helped him get cleared up. About an hour and a half later, I gave him another teaspon before going to bed and within 5 minutes he was asleep (it usually takes him at least 30 minutes to do that)! Although he had the rapid shallow breathing due to his history of asthma, he didn’t cough during this first night and was able to sleep the entire night. He only needed 2 nebulizer treatments to control his asthma symptoms*. On the second night his asthma symptoms were gone and really slept well – even eliminated his snoring (a chronic problem due to stuffed sinuses). By day 3, he had an occassional cough – not as frequent, severe or lingering like his previous experiences (lasts for at least 2 weeks). He was even able to play basketball and spend a day outside. I only had to give it to him in the morning and before going to bed. I usually give it every 3 hours until cough is gone. Here’s to green living and good health. SAY NO TO DRUGS! *Please do not take this as a cure to his asthma symptoms. I only used this to control his cough. I have been using other approaches to control his asthma and allergies all of which I believe have currently helped him recover quickly. Should his symptoms not improve with his doctor prescribed rescue medications, we are prepared to contact his doctor/take him to the ER …

Natural Building How-To: Making Earthen Plaster (PART 1)

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:48:23 +0000

Lately, there’s been a lot of building work going on around Dancing Rabbit. So for this episode of Dancing Rabbit TV, we’re taking the opportunity to provide a “how-to” natural building lesson, an in-depth video about earthen plastering techniques and application. Tamar guides us through every step of the way, showing how easy it is to make natural plaster from just a few simple ingredients, and both making and mixing the plaster, and then applying it to a natural home wall. (Watch PART 2 of this video here: www.youtube.com

Building a Natural Nursery

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:43:47 +0000

Watch and learn with Sara Snow about making your nursery as natural and green as you can with small steps. A few tips can start you on the path to more green living for you and your baby.

Green from the Ground Up: A Sneak preview behind the scenes at the Natural Products Expo

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:46:46 +0000

Boston, MA: Melissa and Greenopolis TV are in Boston for the Natural products Expo – and maybe a Red Sox game? OK, so Melissas a Dodgers fan, but everyone should be a fan of the products and process at the Expo. This is a conference that walks its talk. Conferences and conventions generate an enormous amount of waste – from cardboard to cups to CO2. Natural Products Expo works to change all that by recycling everything – shipping crates and cardboard get recycled, all organic waste gets composted with local farms. Everything that can be reused or recycled is. The exhibitors model green living too – vendors like Kiss My Face build their booths using recycled metals, plastics and paper products – most of it post consumer, stuff that you and I have already gotten use out of. Save Your World products help conserve rain forest – the vital lungs of the earth that generate oxygen and absorb vast amounts of CO2. They use products sustainably derived from the rain forest, which gives it a higher economic value than cutting and burning it. They also practice fair trade relationships with the farmers and native peoples who produce their raw materials for their products, ensuring them a living wage and preservation of families, communities, and cultures Besides, using natural products is fun, is good for your body and soul, and help support businesses that support the planet. Melissa will be reporting on the people and events from this expo, in her own inimitable style and flair …

Natural Remedies : PMS reliever : Do It Gorgeously Green

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:45:16 +0000

Ny Times Best selling author, Sophie Uliano of Gorgeously Green and her new book DO IT GORGEOUSLY, shows you how to make your own non toxic, inexpensive pain relieving period pack . www.gorgeouslygreen.com

re-HOME Sustainable Homes and Natural Building Meetup Group, Mud Plaster Party

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:47:21 +0000

This is one of the good things about living in Southern AZ. We have access to some really wonderful people doing sustainable building and willing to teach others about it. Marcia Gibbons was our hostess and she taught us how to create a mud plaster on the interior and exterior of walls, amongst other things. Anyone interested in green homes, sustainability, green living, and natural building, this video is worth the few minutes.

Science Day at Yardley’s Grey Nun Academy explores natural and mechanical themes (VIDEO)

Fri, 14 May 2010 07:44:13 +0000

Science Day at Yardley’s Grey Nun Academy explores natural and mechanical themes (VIDEO)
From worms to big green environmentally-friendly SEPTA busses, Science Day at Grey Nun Academy had something for everybody.

5. Climate Change — isn’t it natural?

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:06:32 +0000

More urban myths about climate change are busted as I look at the Earth’s climate over the last 500 million years. What causes it to change? Since carbon dioxide was much higher in the past, why do climatologists say higher CO2 now poses a problem? And of course there’s the familiar myth that CO2 can’t influence temperatures because the climate was much colder in the past when carbon dioxide levels were much higher. REFERENCES “CO2-forced climate thresholds during the Phanerozoic” — DL Royer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Dec 2006 “Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate?” — N. Shaviv and J. Veizer, GSA Today, 2003 “Bathymetric and isotopic evidence for a short-lived late Ordovician glaciation in a greenhouse period” — Brenchley et al, Geology; April 1994 “Reconciling Late Ordovician (440 Ma) glaciation with very high (14X) CO2 levels” — CROWLEY TJ ; BAUM SK, Journal of Geophysical Research 1995 “An atmospheric pCO2 threshold for glaciation in the Late Ordovician” — MT Gibbs et. al, Geology; May 1997 “A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician.” — LR Kump et al, Palaeoclimatology alaeogeography Palaeoecology 1999 “Long-lived glaciation in the Late Ordovician? Isotopic and se- quence-stratigraphic evidence from western Laurentia” — MR Saltzman,SA Young, Geology; February 2005 “Solar Activity Over the Last 1150 Years: Does it Correlate with Climate?” — I. Usoskin et.al, Proceedings of The 13th Cool Stars Workshop …

Natural Forests of Arabia (Yemen) اليمن

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:46:02 +0000

الجمهورية اليمنية أو اليمن وهي تقع جنوب شبه الجزيرة العربية في جنوب غرب آسيا. يحدها من الشمال السعودية ومن الشرق عُمان. لها ساحل جنوبي على بحر العرب و ساحل غربي على البحر الأحمر.يشرف اليمن على مضيق باب المندب و لديه عدة جزر في البحر الأحمر و بحر العرب أهمها جزيرة سقطرة . كانت حتى عام 1990 تتشكل من دولتين عرفتا باسمي الجمهورية العربية اليمنية في الشمال وجمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية الشعبية في الجنوب Land of the Queen of Sheba… where coffee was discovered and its famous port of Moka. even though most of yemen and arabia is a desert, there are part that are green, al mahra provence with its hoff forest along with oman s salalah area (both are one big forest along both countries arabian sea border) are the only mist forest in the world. these area gets get hidden from the sun for 3 to 4 months every summer called khareef. Bura’a Forest in Al Hodieda provence along the red sea is the only tropical forest remaining in the arabian peninsula with alote of wild life, the most famous are the babuns and the arabian tigers (slightly smaller then the african type) they are very rare astemated at less then 200 in yemen and another 100 in oman, saudi, emirates, and jordan. last tiger caught for breeding project was in 96 and 98 and was sent to sharjah uae tiger breeding center. soctora will be declared a unesco preservation site in 2008 to save its many plants and animales that are only found here. there are more the 300 plants that are only found on the island the most famous of which …