August
By: Florence Ross, author, poet and LuxEcoLiving contributor
August
August ends the summer season
But we celebrate it for another reason
We have a more important view
It...
How Ingenious
By Florence “Flip” Ross, LuxEco Advocate
We are all familiar with the saying “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” but when I travel through Israel I can’t help but think “When in Israel, do as the Israelis do.” How remarkable they are at accomplishing the impossible.
When they tried to build a harbor in Ashdod, they called in all the experts they could think of to help them do it. The experts from Holland (whom for sure they thought could accomplish this, since their country too was below sea level) told them it was impossible. Imagine their disappointment, but not to be deterred they said: “Okay, we’ll do it ourselves,” and do it themselves they did.
Where can you find some of the best cheese in the world? The Cheese...
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
I was craving cheese. Not just that typical stinky cheese you find...
Rwanda: Preserving The Future
Traveling is a look into culture, tradition and history. Learning about Médici's Renaissance Florence might give you a more profound appreciation of art, religious...
Start Something That Matters Most: Ben and Blake Two Good Soles
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books,...
Side Effects of a Human Error; What To Expect After The BP Oil Spill
By: Molly Cimikoski, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Before the April explosion of the Deep Water Horizon, I could hardly get through a Dawn dish soap commercial...
Nature Even Sc-Fi Couldn’t Out-Bizarre
Someone sent me an amazing article from WebEcoist who presented some of the most moving and beautiful photographs of nature's awesome phenomenons that have...
The Rangeland Trust Celebrates a Legendary Milestone and Honors Stephen Hearst and the Hearst...
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
California leads the nation in having preserved one of the...
Nature is Art
By Florence "Flip" Ross a LuxEcoLiving contributor and advocate
It is such a beautiful world, have you noticed the various hues?
When I step out the...
Windstars Best Boutique Cruise in the World: Get On Board Wind Surf Spanish Symphony...
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The Lorax Movie Denies Children A Universal Truth
By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful...
Empowerment of Women In Africa: Francine LeFrak Fortifies A Stealth Vision Fashion Forward
By: Francine LeFrak, Founder of Same Sky, a company that handcrafts glass bead bracelets made in Rwanda and LuxEco Advocate
My dream is for the empowerment of women and eradication of poverty. In 1994, 1 million people were murdered in 100 days in Rwanda. I spent eight and a half years trying to produce a film about this massacre-- I wanted to tell the story of this genocide. Ultimately, the film never got produced. I was still left with the passion to shed light on this important story. By that time, my focus had also turned to the empowerment of women and girls. It was with the mission of helping the women in Africa that Same Sky was born.
Berti Borrell Designs a Green Hat to Envy
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Have you ever had a center stage moment when you...
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...
No More Stinky Rose Water: Buy Orchids and Let the Love Last
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
I've been fascinated by the long lasting power of orchids....
The Santa Ynez 3rd Annual Polo Classis Kicks Off and Perpetuates the Carlos Gracida...
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
Buelton California at the Circle JB Polo Ranch photo credits LuxEco Living...
The Poisoning of our Planet: A Dog’s Lifesaving Journey Helps Save Lives
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
We had a terrible scare!!! Journey, our 18 month old adopted yellow...
How Green are E-Books and E-Book Readers?
By Alanna Brown, a LuxEco Living Advocate, creator of Brown House Online, and author of Moonpennies
We all love the feel of a new paperback...
Did you say Jellyfish?
Picture of the week
A Lions Mane Jellyfish, the largest jellyfish in the world! They have been swimming in arctic waters since before...
Helping to Stop Deforestation
Did you know that:
We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14%...
The Great Green Wall vs. the Great Sahara Desert
By Jessica Borges, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
Move over Great Wall of China, the Great Green Wall is coming and it’s much more colorful and eco-friendly. In an effort to subdue the advancing Sahara Desert and lessen drought in Africa, the Great Green Wall will consist of a band of trees over 4,000 miles long and nine miles wide.
Google knows we just need those eggs!
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Saying goodbye to a feathered friend
We lost her yesterday. It...
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.
Parenting for Peace by Marcy Axness, PhD: A Book Review
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World.
It...
Kabang Creates Hope for Dogs throughout the World: Meet Karen Kenngott the Nurse Who...
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
Travels with Journey, The Hallmark Inn Davis, California
"The capacity for hope is...
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...
Journey Does Vegas: Vdara is a Pet-Friendly 6 Paw Hotel
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and co-founders of Healthy Child Healthy World
Las Vegas Nevada, City Center, Vdara/ Travels with Journey
Our...
Meet Adam Moskowitz one of the worlds greatest cheesmongers
By Nancy Chuda founder and editor-in-chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
The Worlds Greatest Cheese and Cheesemongers
Before Adam Moskowitz found his...
Helping Haiti through “Agape”
Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, has galvanized a community of thousands of followers in his trans-denominational movement.
Beckwith's ability to...
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...
This Could Be Our 1989
You might think that the greatest political, cultural, economic shock of our lifetimes, right here in the USA, would unleash a torrent of salient and incisive commentary. There's been some good, some confused, some angry. But mostly what I've seen is a kind of mouth-open shocked.
‘What Would the World Be to Us, If the Children Were No More’: Cancer...
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Prevention through education is worth more than cure
In 1991, two...
The Many Husbands of Ganna Walska
By: Nancy Chuda, co-founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World
"One need not be in California long before he feels his soul beginning to stir. The air is magnetized...the consciousness awakens ...the soul must speak." Ganna Walska, the flamboyant opera singer who wrote those words in her memoir, had not merely tired of New York. After a six-week stay in the Hollywood Hills in 1940, the 53-year-old Mrs. Walska truly believed that her destiny lay in this "sunny land" where "people are decidedly more interested in your being than in your pocket."
LuxEcoLiving4U: Roblar Winery’s Posh Private Affair
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
"You step into the main greeting room and you know...













