From the category archives:
There are some really bad kids toys out there. Jaw droppingly bad. And when I saw this one on Finding Summer’s Anti-Consumerism Link Farm post, my jaw did drop. I could see this being useful for budding documentary film producers putting on a home re-make of Supersize Me, but otherwise I wouldn’t be welcoming my [...]
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In the North American context, there always seems to be a battle between processed foods and whole foods. Processed foods are convenient, but full of sodium, sugar, preservatives, unhealthy fats, food colouring, and all sorts of crap you can’t pronounce. On top of that, there is the packaging the kills the environment and also harms [...]
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Since we arrived here in Berlin, our lives have changed in many ways. We’ve moved from the country to the city, from English/French to German/Turkish, from a large home to a small apartment. One consequence of this change is that we are leading a much simpler life in many ways. We don’t have a car, [...]
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Welcome to the April Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting advice! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing letters to ask our readers for help with a current parenting issue. Please read to the end to find a [...]
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A few days ago, I wrote about how I despise the McDonald’s and Coke sponsorship of Olympic athletes. Today, I want to share a few better Olympic sponsorship videos with you. American Ski Champ and Organic Farmer: Bode Miller Hockey Players and Egg Farmers of Canada: Hayley Wickenheiser and Kim St.Pierre Thanks to Lisa from [...]
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Earlier this week, Canada welcomed a new hero into its hearts. Not only the winner of our first gold medal during these Olympics, but the winner of the first Olympic gold ever won by a Canadian on Canadian soil, and a genuine good human being too. Alexandre Bilodeau is just the type of person I [...]
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Last week a mother found an industrial staple in her son’s Gerber Graduates pasta. This week, the Canadian Stroke Network gave its Salt Lick Award to Gerber Graduates. According to the press release [emphasis mine]: Two of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence – the Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods & Materials Network [...]
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There was a twitter party tonight where Kraft was promising to donate 50 boxes of Kraft Dinner (KD) for every tweet with the #bluebox hash tag. The goal was to reach one million boxes of KD being donated. Kraft’s donation drive, in conjunction with Feeding America, uses the slogan “Share a Little Comfort.” The thing [...]
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Today is Blog Action Day 2009. Last year’s theme was poverty and I effortlessly wrote a long post about our Empathy Deficit and how it is preventing us from making poverty history. This year’s theme is climate change. Just a few days ago I was listening to Tim Flannery on CBC radio talking about his [...]
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This is one of a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and analyzed. [...]
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