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Categories: Bellisima Green Challenge

• Footprint Friday: Bellisima Green Challenge: Start An Inspirational Movie Night!

  Last night, Bellisima Living teamed up with Collage to show another thought-provoking film–our third in our summer movie series. We had a circle of women in attendance who all found the movie full of powerful and insightful messages. The film, How To Cook Your Life, by German filmmaker Doris Dörrie, documents a summer in the [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: What’s the Hidden Cost of Cheaper Food?

  As shown in this short video, in the U.S. we spend over 15 percent on healthcare—the most of any country, yet we spend the least on food. Most wealthy countries, like the U.S.–and followed by the U.K., Denmark, and Hong Kong–use a small percentage of their household expenditures on food. Those countries that spend the [...]

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• Footprint Friday: Bellisima Green Challenge–The Future of Food

  Have you had an opportunity to see “The Future of Food” yet? This was not a movie that made it to your local theater, but it continues to impact those of us who get an opportunity to view it. It was produced in 2004 to shed light on the GMO food industry. As stated at [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: A Mouse In the House!

  One evening before I left for Italy, we discovered a baby field mouse in our house. It had apparently entered through the back door along with our cat and dog. My daughter Alix was awakened by our cat making sounds she’d never heard before and realized Smokey was chasing and batting around this baby mouse. [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: Take a Walk On the Wild Side!

  Today my challenge is for all of us to get outdoors this weekend and take a walk on the wild side.
  Where I live in Colorado–at about 6300 feet–the wildflowers are in bloom. A few weeks ago, I and my family discovered a wonderful ridgeline trail near our home. We’ve made it a point to walk [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: Continued Awakening

  It’s so easy to find ourselves living with a sense of despair as we contemplate what is happening to our planet, especially when we consider events such as the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But despair equates to disempowerment–a place which leaves us fearful, hopeless, and victim-bound. So how can we awaken [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: Awakening Me, the Dreamer

  This weekend I will be involved in the training required to become a facilitator of Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer Symposium. I am excited, awestruck, and nervous as I become a part of this monumental bridge of past and present to create a sustainable future for all life.
  As I’ve been reading my preparatory materials, I’ve [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: I Say a Prayer for the Healing of the Earth

  After many posts about actions to take to aid in the healing of our planet over this past month, I have felt the need to pause for the last week and just allow all of that information to settle in. I also wanted time to sit with Jeff Graef’s beautiful affirmation for the Earth. Today [...]

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• Wellness Wednesday–One Day to Earth Day: Precycling and Purchasing Recycled!

  In addition to the 3 R’s–reduce, reuse and recycle–there’s a wonderful word to add to your vocabulary and to put into action in your life: PRECYCLE! While recycling can be very helpful for the environment, precycling can reduce waste before it gets to that point. Precycling is actually preventing and lowering the amount of waste [...]

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• Intuitive Tuesday–Recycling, Recycling, and More Recycling?

  As we continue to look at our recycling efforts, I want to interject one idea worthy of consideration. Environmental advocates are calling on manufacturers to consider the entire life cycle of products from manufacture through disposal and to create products that don’t need to be dumped at the end of their lives into a landfill, [...]

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