Greening Your Closet
New Trends in Eco-Fashion

Six designers were in the spotlight at a fashion show in Anaheim. They all wanted their clothes to pop, but they also all had three things in common: concern for the health of the planet, the health of consumers, and the health of the people who make their clothes. The result is something called eco-fashion that gives "green" a whole new look.

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Eco Skin Collections

Greening Your Household
Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products

When most of us think about air pollution, we tend to conjure up images of billowing smoke stacks and toxic auto exhaust. But it turns out our indoor air may be much more polluted than what's outside. So many of us these days are paying attention to "greening" our homes from the inside out.

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Greening Your Roof
The Power of Solar

See what it takes to make the wheel on your utility meter spin backwards! Even when the Hanks family is home, Eric says their rooftop panels cut their energy bill from almost $200 a month to about $35 dollars a month. Installing the system cost about $12,000 once state and federal tax credits were factored in. Eric estimates that they'll recover that investment in about four years even though they live in a place where the skies are often overcast.

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What's It Mean to Be Organic?
From Congress to Your Kitchen Table

We hear a lot these days about the benefits of being organic, but what does that really mean? And how does organic compare with products that call themselves “natural”? We interview Chris Kilham, a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, renowned ethnobotanist and author of 14 books. He knows a lot about the category of certified organics because he helped create it when he lobbied Congress to pass the Organic Foods Production Act of 1991.

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The Organic Center

The True Value of Organics
Proven Benefits of Organic Foods and Farming

There is a common myth that organic food is for the elite, it’s a luxury item, and in tough economic times it’s something that should perhaps go by the wayside. But Dr. Alan Greene, a nationally-known author, clinical professor of pediatrics at Stanford University and member of the board of directors of The Organic Center, tells us that we need to think about our well-being from a long-term perspective. Investing today in organic food and farming, he says, helps us to stop borrowing against our futures, both in terms of our personal health and the health of the planet.

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The Organic Center

Health Benefits of Organic Food
Understanding the Scientific Evidence

Dr. Alan Greene is a pediatrician, a nationally-known author and an expert on the growing body of scientific evidence about the true value of organic foods. He says the health benefits of organic is actually a pretty big issue, and it falls into two categories: getting less of the bad stuff, and getting more of the good stuff. Organic foods are grown without the use of toxic synthetic pesticides, genetically modified seeds, without cloning, without antibiotics, and without chemical fertilizers. On the plus side, organic foods are shown to have 25% more nutrients than conventional.

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How to Get Youngsters to Eat Organic
Raising Kids with Nutritional Values

You might call Jesse Cool an organic crusader. She’s been a pioneer in the world of organic cooking for 30 years. A prolific author and owner of three San Francisco-area restaurants featuring organic food, Jesse’s raised a family of her own and has no illusions about the challenge of promoting a healthy diet in a world of processed foods. Helping kids really connect with healthy ingredients is something Jesse says is well worth the effort.

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Organic Baby Food
Avoiding Overprocessed Ingredients

When it comes to meals with our kids, it’s very important to start them out with the healthiest foods possible. Our organic nutrition expert, Dr. Alan Greene, tells us that nutrient quality from conventional agriculture is on the decline. He also explains why parents don’t want overprocessed baby foods that could lead to a taste for processed foods as a toddler and as an older child. Plus, the EPA has determined that babies are more vulnerable to chemical toxins than adults because they consume more pound for pound.

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Organic Soy
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part I

About two thirds of the fat consumed by Americans – vegetable oils or animal fats – is soybean oil. And soy protein isolated from soy meal is about 98% of what is fed to our livestock. Soy is second only to corn in pesticide use in the United States. Beyond this, soy leads the way in genetically modified organisms. That’s why Dr. Alan Greene, a noted pediatrician, author and organic food expert says switching to organic soy is a significant step for reducing toxicity in our diets.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Corn
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part II

Choosing organic corn means skipping most conventional foods. In fact, more than 4,000 U.S. products contain corn as an ingredient, and that doesn’t count all the corn used in livestock production. More chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used on corn than any other crop, and most corn (over 50 million acres in the U.S.) is genetically modified. Switching to organic corn, according to Dr. Alan Greene, is not yet an easy thing to do, yet it could do wonders for our health and our planet.

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Organic Peanut Butter
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part III

More acres in the United States are planed in peanuts than any fruit or any vegetable or any nut. According to the National Peanut Board, peanut butter is the main use of peanuts in the United States. About the time peanut allergies began to get more common, many of us started thinking about peanut butter as an overly sweet, high fat, unhealthy food. However, it’s really the other ingredients in most conventional peanut butters that are unhealthy, from corn syrup and hydrogenated fats and pesticides.

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Organic Catsup
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part IV

Turns out catsup has an important nutrient called lycopene, and is one of nature’s most powerful antioxidants. In some studies it’s been shown to prevent cardiovascular damage and cancer, and helps to prevent and heal damage in our cells. Tomatoes are one of the top 10 sources of lycopene in our diets; more than 80% of our lycopene comes from tomatoes. Researchers have recently discovered that on average organic catsup has 57% more lycopene than its counterparts, and double the total antioxidants – a big nutritional difference.

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Organic Apples
The Case For Two Apples a Day

Researchers say if American women would just eat one apple a day that could be enough to halt the rise in breast cancer. Two apples a day can drop cholesterol from 240 to just under 200! They key qualifier, according to Dr. Alan Greene, is that we consume organic apples because they have higher levels of all good polyphenols and phytonutrients.

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Organic Potatoes
More Than Just a Side Dish

When he was in medical school, Dr. Alan Greene was taught that potatoes are essentially empty calories. But it turns out they can be a nutritious, low-calorie high-fiber food with good glycemic index, and that have important vitamins and minerals and other phytonutrients we’re just beginning to discover – including something called Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) which creates a powerful anti-aging affect.

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Organic Wine
Reserveratrol in Red Wine Grapes

Reserveratrol is found naturally in its highest levels in red grapes, especially in red wine grapes, and the amounts that are present in red wine are actually high enough to make a different medicinally. When tested, organic red wines averaged 32% higher in reserveratrol than conventional wines, and has been shown to have anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-aging effects, as well as brain protective effects. Drinking organic wines not only help us avoid nasty chemicals, is also helps farm workers and their families.

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Organic Milk
It's All About the Cow

There’s more to a glass of milk than meets the eye. Dr. Alan Greene suggests you choose organic milk every time. A noted pediatrician, author and board member of The Organic Center says hidden from view is where the cow came from, the dairy where the cow was milked, and the acres of cropland where the feed for the cow was grown. When we’re buying a glass of conventional milk, says Greene, we’re buying into a whole system of chemical agriculture including antibiotics, synthetic hormones, pesticides and genetically modified animal feed.

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Trace Minerals from the Sea
Countering the Effects of Depleted Farmland

The depleted condition of much of our farmland is a growing concern for many scientists. Lots of foods we eat today just don’t have the nutrients they used to. That’s especially true for one important ingredient: trace minerals. Nutritional expert Mary Mulry tells us how trace minerals are actual building blocks of our nutrition and are essential to our health, and that sea vegetation provides an abundant source of trace minerals that actually mimic what is in the human blood stream.

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Mission Organic 2010
Promoting Organic Foods and Farming

With the rise in organic foods, it may be a surprise that U.S. organic foods account for only 3 percent of total sales. Increasing that percentage would have a huge impact on all of us and the planet we all share. Mission Organic 2010 is a movement that is aimed at increasing the adoption of organics from the current 3 percent of overall food sales to about 10 percent by 2010. We’ll check in with James D. White, a senior executive with a growing organic brand and board member of The Organic Center, to see how the Mission Organic 2010 campaign is doing.

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