Food As Medicine: A True Farm-To-Hospital Food Program

St. Luke's Rodale Organic Farm

Rodale Institute and St. Luke’s University Health Network launched a true farm to hospital food program. The Anderson Campus at St. Luke’s has over 300 acres of farmland, much of which had historically been farmed conventionally with crops like corn and soy. The hospital administration recognized the impact that providing fresh, local organic produce could have on patient health and approached Rodale Institute to transition the land to organic and farm vegetables to be used in patient meals as well as in the cafeteria.

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Robert Redford Is Voice of the Redwood

Robert Redford - Voice of the Redwoods

Robert Redford — playing The Redwood in our Nature Is Speaking film — sums up the incredible life history of redwood trees, which are older and bigger than most living things on Earth.

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How to Raise Brave Girls

How To Raise Brave Girls

If you have a daughter, there’s nothing more important you can do to enable her to thrive in life than helping her grow into the bravest version of the woman she has it in her to be. Here’s How.

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Loliware: (Dis)Solving Our Disposable Cup Problem

Loliware founders Leigh Ann Tucker and Chelsea Briganti

“Loliware was born because, as designers, we wanted to have fun getting super-creative with a material, but we have a bigger vision that Loliware will replace a percentage of the plastic cups destined for the landfill.”

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Embrace Your Crazy!

5 Rules for Women Entrepreneurs

According to a Cox Business study, 61 percent of women entrepreneurs started a business to be their own boss, and more than 50 percent became entrepreneurs to have greater control over their future. So, what holds more women back from taking the plunge?

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Julia Roberts Made One Of The Most Powerful Videos Ever

Nature Is Speaking

While many of us may take it for granted, the planet we live on is the very foundation of all life as we know it. Home to between 10-14 million species of life, we share this planet with billions of others that have an equal stake in maintaining the planet. It is for this reason that many have come to be cautious about the impact we have on many creatures’ natural habitats. Issues such as deforestation and water/food contamination have a significant impact on the quality of life for animals. In many cases, this can become an issue of life or death.

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Women Of Green Founder Carolyn Parrs on PBS

Carolyn Parrs on PBS NM In Focus

Earth Day this year was officially Wednesday, April 22nd. Did you get your green on? Well, it’s not too late. I’ve seen in recent years Earth Day transform into Earth Week with green activities and events spread out over many days. Now if we can only get that kind of effort happening the remainder 51 weeks of the year, that would be progress!

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WEDO: Women find strength in collaboration

Women celebrate at Earth Summit

It began simply. A group of women friends worried about the world, a group of women activists determined to be the change they wanted to see.

Led by U.S. Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920-1998) and activist/journalist Mim Kelber(1922-2004), the group decided to use the 1992 Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) as a springboard toward achieving their long-term goals of gender equality and environmental justice in a sustainable world.

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Now You Can Kick Monsanto in the App


In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The formerMicrosoft MSFT +0.6% programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe barcodes to check whether conservative billionaire industrialists Charles andDavid Koch were behind a product on the shelves.

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Solar Mamas


They can’t read or write but a couple of brave Bedouin women from Jordan travelled far and wide to help their villages become solar powered. The biggest struggle yet may be with their husbands: We’ve covered this hopeful story of Solar Mamas, Bedouin women from Jordan who went to Barefoot College to learn how to solar power their villages. We’ve interviewed the women from solar mamas, and have reviewed the film Solar Mamas, a documentary movie about their journey.

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