Prevent Cancer in Your Pet
By Lacey Szczepanik, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
I have two beautiful pet babies; Diggs, my proud, empathetic and cautious boxer, and Mo, my silly, sleepy Staffordshire terrier. I take my role as their guardian very seriously. When my pet Diggs was two years old, he was diagnosed with mast cell tumors, a form of cancer prevalent among boxers. I was devastated. I went through all the stages of grief. Denial; “Excuse me Mrs. Veterinarian, my dog has a small ‘bump’ on his side. Bump. Not lump. Lumps are scary. This is simply a ‘bump’.” Anger... directed more at God than anyone in particular. I lost Diggs’ brother much too early in life and found it cruel to be faced with another premature goodbye. Bargaining. Depression; full on who-needs-food and why-would-I-get-out-of-my-pajamas-or-leave-the-house-when-I-could-sit here-and-stare-at-my-beautiful-dog kind of depression. And finally Acceptance, and by acceptance I mean he’s alive today and he’ll be alive tomorrow SO THERE. Maybe the anger and denial are still sprinkled on top of the acceptance. A shocking 20-25% of our furry four legged pets end up dying prematurely due to Cancer. (Perdue University Department of Veterinarian).
Mary’s 8 Holiday Tips for Green-Gifting the Senior on Your List
By: Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEco Editorial Assistant for Resplendent Repurposing series
If you have seniors on your gift list, you may be struggling with what to buy them. The best, and greenest answer may be: Nothing, as in no-thing.
It’s the old story: What to get the person who has everything? Most older people have more junk than they’ll ever need – and are trying to get rid of it. Very often they’re downscaling, going from a multi-bedroom house to a smaller one, an apartment or into assisted living. The last thing they want is one more dust-catcher. So don’t buy them any, unless they’ve specifically requested it. (Ever wonder what percentage of landfill contents are made up of unwanted gifts? I’ll bet the number is staggering.)
Travels with Journey: Kimpton’s Argonaut in San Francisco is a 4 Paw Hotel
Travels with Journey- Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco
Sleepless in San Francisco
It was 6:00 am in the morning. Duty calls! Journey had already consumed 5 bottles...
If I Could
Hands by Guido Daniele
Hands by Guido Daniele
By Florence "Flip" Ross, LuxEcoLiving Advocate and Contributor
If I could bring the planet Earth, back to its natural beauty
If I could sing its praise, and make the world assume its duty
If I could make the industries clean up their foul pollution
Our air, our water, would be clean, and would be the solution
If I could force our corporations to help clean up our planet
From an Apple to Cloning
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1511, fresco, 480 cm~ 230 cm (189.0 in ~ 90.6 in)
By Zhenya Gershman, artist, educator and LuxEco...
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...
The Brazilian Court hosts a Green Dream Wedding
By Nancy Gould Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
The Brazilian Court turns a spectacular wedding into a...
Ride em Cowboys
Introduction by Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
The horses have it! Today, in Louisville at the...
Why Indie Publishing Beats a Mainstream Book Deal
By Alanna Brown, a LuxEcoLiving Advocate, creator of Brown House Online, and author of Moonpennies
The gatekeepers are gone. The agent, the editor, the lawyer,...
New World F.E.S.T. – Festival of Eco-friendly Science & Technology
The New World F.E.S.T, going on October 7, 8 and 9 celebrates eco-friendliness and forward-thinking science and technology.
Come down to the beaches of Santa...
Hay, It’s Worth a Try
By Molly Rovero, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
After the deluge of oil began glutting 504,000 to 798,000 (12,000 to 19,000 barrels) gallons per day into...
LOHAS – Lifestyles Of Health and Sustainability – Networking Event
LOHAS Second Annual Los Angeles Networking Event & Reception - Provides Forum for Green Business Leaders.
LOHAS, the producers of the annual LOHAS Forum is...
Quit Fracking Around with Our Children’s Health
What the Frac? Pollution from the use of thousands of chemicals to derive natural gas from shale is threatening the health of our children...
Seasonal Eating: The Best Nature Has to Offer
By Kerin Van Hoosear, LuxEco Editorial Assistant and author of Seasonal Cooking with Kerin
Before the advent of refrigeration, seasonal living wasn’t an aspiration,...
Eco-Fashion Trends Over the Years
by Jessica Borges, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
As you’re staring blankly into your “so last year” closet full of drab clothing that you just can’t bear to...
Captain Planet Seeds Students to Grow a Greener Future for Agriculture
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
Santa Paula California Limoneria Ranch
An Afternoon in the Orchard Celebrating Sustainable Agriculture
Not...
Green Lightning. Go, Green Lightning.
Green Lighting
By Lush Huxley, Editorial Assistant LuxEco Living
On a bright and sunny Wednesday in Los Angeles, I am sitting in a pleasant backyard under...
Antonelli’s Cheese Shop in Austin Texas is a real love story
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
"We've been asked many times, "Why a Cheese...
±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...
Is Antimatter Real?
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Physics; somewhere over the rainbow.
What in the World Is a Higgs Boson?
Peter Higgs, an Edinburgh University professor, discussed the particle that bears...
BP Puts New Cap On Broken Well To Stop Oil Spill
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
It seems BP has finally begun to make good on weeks of promise to fix the Deepwater Horizon wellhead that has been gushing crude oil into the Gulf Coast. It has taken nearly 3 months for them to initiate a plan that might hold back the oil, but at last, crews worked through the weekend and fitted a new 150,000-pound cap to the wellhead on Monday. They began tests Tuesday, which may take up to 48 hours, to see if the cap will be strong enough to temporarily contain the oil and gases.
History reveals orchids are orchidellic
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Orchids can be orchidellic
Santa Barbara International Orchid Show
And...
Two Tales from the Tavern infuse Hope Faith and Remembrance: Sarah Lee Guthrie Johnny...
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of HealthyChild Healthy World
Santa Ynez California
Courtesy of Jeremy Ball
A Magical Night! Tales from...
A treadmill desk can increase your lifespan: Take worry and stress out of work...
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
How walking can add years to your life
What...
Chef Pinks Bacon and Brine is Mighty Fine: One of the Best Tastes in...
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Solvang California, Bacon and Brine
Chef Pink and Courtney Rae are...
Safety In The Summer Sun
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
The hot sand between your toes, the refreshing cool water splashing against your legs, the high sun warm on your face. Summer is approaching fast and the beaches beckon us in all their golden glory. But before you rush off in your swimsuit, take the necessary precautions to make sure you have a safe celebration of this season.
Healthy Child Healthy Pet: Safer Toys For Pets Linked To Phthalate Free
Healthy Child Healthy World provides parents with information that can prevent many childhood diseases. Our research team is powered by Environmental Working Group's comprehensive database which provides cutting edge scientific research which links human health to exposure to chemicals in the environment.
Curb Your Consumerism
Yay if you recycle!!! But there is more to the story!
Annie Leonard's "Story of Stuff" is pure genius! Take 20 minutes out and think...
Peace: War Is Not Healthy For Children and Other Living Things
In a times of great tumult, we are reminded of the calls for peace echoed by 1960's activists: War Is Not Healthy For Children and Other Living Things
AMP founders with two Congressional Representatives, from left: Gloria Vanderbilt, Lenore Breslauer, Felica Bernstein, Joanne Woodward and Barbara Avedon
By Nancy Chuda, Co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World and Co-Fouder and Editor in Chief LuxEco Living
On March 19, 2011, my mother, Lenore Breslauer would have been 88 years of age. She passed on the eve President Bush declared war on Iraq, March 20, 2003. US military invasion of Iraq, "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was a coalition forces cooperative. Approximately forty other governments, participated by providing troops, equipment, services, security, and special forces, with 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers. Additionally, 70,000 Kurdish military troops joined forces.
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...
Clean Energy Versus Oil: The Economy, The Environment, And The Future
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Needless to say, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has devastated the United States’...
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...
Antibiotics and Food Production: Are we Feeding a Health Crisis and Squandering the Cure?
Author of Family Dinner and Producer of Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David shares her concern about antibiotics in food production and what that means for the overall health concerns.
By Laurie David, Author, Producer and LuxEco Advocate
Originally posted on Huffington Post
I worry. A lot. My worry gene works overtime. A doctor once told me it's called an "overactive checker" (or as I like to think of it, my OC). As far as afflictions go, it's not terrible. OC's are good to have around. They see danger from miles away. They pay close attention.
Motherhood can be particularly tough on OC's. We know too well that there's no such thing as "out of sight out of mind." But over the years I have come to terms with my checker, and now consider it a trusted friend. It was my checker that helped me raise my kids with a minimum of cuts and scratches, rear three dogs from eight-week-old puppies, and eventually opened my eyes to the looming dangers of global warming. It's the same trusted checker that is screaming, "Wake up! Wake up!" on the issue of antibiotic resistance.
PART 1: Laura Turner Seydel Visits the Green Home Under the H
Nancy Chuda, co-founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World, proudly introduces LuxEco Living TV! Our first guest is Laura Turner Seydel, a wonderful mother, eco-advocate and the daughter of CNN's Ted Turner. Check out the interview to hear Laura share her insight and passion for an eco-conscious world, free from chemicals and toxins.
New Advances in Microbiology Look Promising; Microbiologists Embark On a Microbe Mission
Scientists with the National Institutes of Health are on a mission—being called the Human Microbiome Project—to find out what these microbes do exactly. Which ones are fighting for or against us, and how might they have the potential to counteract disease?












