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Categories: Bellisima Green Living

• 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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• Happy 40th Anniversary of Earth Day!!

  Today, in honor of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, I offer an affirmation written by Jeff Graef. It is appropriate today to visualize the Earth in all Her splendor–healed, vibrant, and glorious. Please enjoy it, share it, and visualize it!! May we make every day Earth Day as we all work towards the healing [...]

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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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• Magical Monday–More Thoughts on Recycling!

  Sometimes deciding what or how to recycle an item can be difficult. In this post we’ll look bioplastics, biodegradables, and compostables. Tomorrow, we’ll look at plastics, electronic waste and paper.
  Oftentimes, the terms bioplastics, biodegradables, and compostables are used interchangeably. They do not really all mean the same thing however.
  Let’s start with biodegradables. What exactly [...]

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• Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: Last of the 3 R’s–Recycling!

  Recycling comes last in our prioritization of the 3 R’s (remember: reduce first, reuse second, and recycle third). Although recycling is good for the environment, reducing and reusing are ideal. Recycling still requires energy and can add pollutants to our air and water. So, before you add something to one of your recycling bins, take [...]

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• Tasty Thursday–Bellisima Cucina “Earth Day” Recipes: Quinoa With Lemon and Zucchini

  Here is another wonderful recipe from Whole Foods using quinoa! I love the nuttiness and crunchiness of this ancient protein-rich grain! You can toss with shrimp (wild-caught please) or place the shrimp on top of a quinoa “bed.” This is an easy dish to prepare using grains and produce from the earth. Cooking and preparation [...]

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• Wellness Wednesday–Honoring Rachel Carson Today

  Rachel Carson–biologist, writer, ecologist–was born on May 27, 1907 and died on April 14, 1964, exactly 46 years ago TODAY.
  In her 56 years of life, Rachel Carson was always connected to nature. In her adult life, she did much to help laypeople understand the interconnectedness of all life. She worked and wrote to bring [...]

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• Intuitive Tuesday–Worldwide Book Reuse!

  A little more about reusing… When it comes to the 3 R’s, the priority of our actions should be first to reduce. As I blogged about last week, reducing our consumption is the optimal choice for supporting a more sustainable planet. Next best to reducing consumption, is reusing that which already exists. Reusing is preferable [...]

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• Magical Monday–Reuse!

  A few years ago, Consumer Reports revealed a startling statistic. An investigation found that New York City’s Department of Sanitation collects over 700,000 tons of reusable “garbage.” If this has happened in one city, isn’t it likely to be happening in many other towns and cities as well?
  A lot of what gets defined as [...]

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