LuxEco Living Founders, James and Nancy Chuda, To Be Featured On CNN’s “Toxic America”
By: Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEco Living.
Walking around plush suburban America in Hazmat suits because the environment is saturated with toxic chemicals? Well, maybe we aren't too far away from such a scenario-...
She’s Crafty, and She’s Just My Type
By: Linsley Oaks, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
I have a friend who knits. A lot. She is better than any machine. She gets consignment work frequently as well as knitting gift items for...
P.M.S. Is More
By Bernadette Bowman, Comedienne and LuxEco Advocate who writes the LIFE GOES RETROGRADE series.
UGH.
It’s PMS Week. I cannot tell a lie. I have the chocolate smeared keyboard to prove it.
To help me (and him)...
Seane Corn: Off The Mat Into The World
By: Lewis Perkins, Founder of Women Are Saving The World Now and LuxEco Advocate
Article via Women Are Saving The World Now
Last week, I had the honor to speak with yoga practitioner, teacher and activist,...
Australia Leads Cancer Recovery Through Wellness with $68.9m in Funding
By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEcoLiving.com
When fighting cancer, we often think of disease management through any number of Western medical practices. But wellness takes a key role in healing and maintaining the healthy...
Water Water Everywhere
By: Linsley Oaks, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
Propaganda can do good when properly executed. I vividly remember a cartoon aired on Sesame Street circa 1985. It was a spit screen of a little boy washing...
Reviewing The Book of Awesome
By Lacey Szczepanik, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
It only requires around 60 seconds of listening to the news to conclude that it’s pretty bad out there. Natural disasters, man made wars, economic crisis, it seems...
Your Marriage May Last Forever But Your Dress Doesn’t Have To
The trend towards low-cost "throw away" fashion has resulted in a stratospheric increase in sales. However, according to Ecouterre the results have not been so flattering to the environment. Using Britain as an example...
April Showers Bring May Flowers, Summer Drought and Seedlings Sprout!
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Granted, there is an abundance of vegetation that only thrives during the rainy season or in mild warmth. Now that we find ourselves in the cool heat of...
Everyone Will Be a High Wire Act In The Future
By Lush Huxley, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
...Or so implies a new technology by Kolelinia lab the brain child of Bulgarian designer Martin Angelov. The lab has conceptualized an answer to traffic congestion in the form...
A Match Made In Green Heaven
By Janine Johnson, Founder of Green Wave and LuxEco Advocate
Where do you start in telling your tale? Typically it’s an introduction, and so this is my introduction. Hi, my name is Janine. ...
Bravo Betty!
By Nancy Chuda, Founder of LuxEcoLiving.com
Betty White makes 88 look like a new-aged hippie whose secret is more than just getting good dietary fiber. She’s on a roll… and it’s not exactly a Kaiser.
For...
Breathing Easy With Bhakti Ware
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Yoga mat. Check. Pony-tail. Check. Comfy and easily removed flip-flops. Check. Bhakti Ware…Check? “Wait, what is Bhakti Ware?” You might ask. And it would be a worthwhile question.
The eccentric...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
By: Linsley Oaks, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
Modern Western man (and woman) has evolved into a very private creature. We no longer roam large territories in herds; instead we are isolated in our ‘little boxes...
±2°C: A Far Eastern Inconvenient Truth
By Lush Huxley, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
Move over Al Gore and make room for the ladies. The Western world isn’t the only hemisphere freaking out over the climate crisis. In the Taiwanese documentary “±2°C” global...
Losing Taste, Redefining Creative Process
Photography: Lara Kastner for Metropolis
In each of our lives, we are given a unique set of gifts, challenges and even obstacles. They say that the truly happy and successful people are...
Revisiting Gratitude: This Much I Know…One Year Later- Part 2
By Bernadette Bowman, Comedienne and LuxEco Advocate who writes the LIFE GOES RETROGRADE series.
My apologies for being a few days late with my third installment.
Last week was a doozy. I was told that my...
A Powerful Journey to the Old Mountain
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
A five-day, four-night trek on the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu is more, in many ways, than you ever bargained for. First of all, looking at pretty...
epOxyGreen Interiors: Form, Function and Fabulous
Green interiors are now innovative, elegant and easily available in every pricing category. epOxyGreen, a 5,000-square foot showroom featuring sustainable flooring, carpeting, recycled decorative splashes, tiles, paints, plasters, countertop and cabinets, sinks, decorative panels and plys,...
A Tribute to Dr. Stanley Greenspan
By: Emily Lynne Ion via Heathy Child Healthy World on Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Today, the Healthy Child family is mourning the loss of an inspirational pioneer and beloved member of the community, Dr. Stanley...
Bicycling and Recycling in West LA With The LAGreensters
By: Annie Huang, LuxEco Living Marketing Assistant
People bike for many reasons such as exercising, commuting from one place to another, or simply just touring around the neighborhood for fun. And my biking reason for last...
“H” for Hollywood, “H” for History, “H” for Health and “H” for Hope!
By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEcoLiving.com
After months of rally efforts, raising donations and even conducting neighborhood bake sales, the Hollywood sign has finally been saved from certain doom by real estate developers and...
Makini Howell: Vegan Queen
By Rachel Sarnoff, Writer and Founder of EcoStiletto.com and MommyGreenest.com and LuxEco Advocate
Who can get Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler, Jenny McCarthy, Daryl Hannah, Gus Van Sant, Matthew Cera and twenty or so...
Wherever I Go, There I Am
By Lacey Szczepanik, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
At the age of 28 I find I’ve lived the majority of my life trapped inside a head that never shuts up. I think and think, analyze and...
Re-Viewing Gratitude
By Bernadette Bowman, Comedienne and LuxEco Advocate who writes the LIFE GOES RETROGRADE series.
This week marks the one-year mark of my being out of work.
Out of work since working pretty much non-stop for the...
The One, The Many, and the Balance
By: Linsley Oaks, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
Running across a field might seem like the last thing anyone should do after slinging $12 dixie cups of liquor to festival goers for 12 hours, but hey-...
How Deep is Your Green?
By: Linsley Oaks
Green is the new pink, black, and red. And I am not talking about runway spring fashions. I'm talking ecological wisdom and awareness. Green has permeated every sector of our society: there...
Chemical Creepers: Don’t Wash Your Liver In The Sink!
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
The largest organ in, or should I say on, our bodies…the epidermis. It is defined by the Online Encyclopedia Britannica, “protective outermost portion of the skin.” So if...
Up a Stream With A Broken Chinese Paddle
By Lacey Szczepanik, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
I was born into a generation which, when it comes to consuming products, ‘Built to Last’ was long pushed aside for ‘Built to Trash’. In an age of...
Life Goes Retrograde
By Bernadette Bowman, Comedienne and LuxEco Advocate who writes the LIFE GOES RETROGRADE series.
Fire! Aim! Ready!
Or as Willie Wonka would say, “Strike that. Reverse it!”
Especially this weekend when, once again, my pretties, Mercury...
Leading A Green Movement, One Well-Heeled Eco Step At A Time
By Rachel Sarnoff, Writer and Founder of EcoStiletto.com and MommyGreenest.com and LuxEco Advocate
I’m a journalist by trade and I’d been writing about fashion and beauty for about 10 years before I realized that something...
All For One
By Nancy Chuda, Co-Founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke predicted that America's worst recession in decades would likely end this year before a recovery gathers steam next year.
The...
Chemicals Are Stealing Our Children’s Future
By Nancy Chuda, Co-Founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World.
This Earth Day, April 22, 2010, marks the 19th anniversary of the passing of our only child. Colette Chuda was five years old when...
METHOD, More of an Organism Than an Organization?
By Lewis Perkins reposted from “Semantic of Sustainability” - FastCompany.com
So I think we can all admit by now that “green washing” is a thing of the past and most consumers are savvy enough to...
SANAA Partners Win The Pritzker Prize
By Margret Debanne, Art Historian and LuxEco Advocate
With yesterday's naming of SANAA Partners as winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, Kazuyo Sejima has joined Zaha Hadid as a female Prizker laureate. The prize...
