Whole Foods Market and Chef Ann Cooper, the nation’s “Renegade Lunch Lady,” have joined forces and launched a new “School Lunch Revolution” campaign along with a helpful website, The Lunch Box. This is a national campaign created to help parents and schools revolutionize and improve the way children eat. According to the CDC, “One in three children born in the year 2000 will have diabetes, and 30 percent of them are overweight, and that the cost of treating diabetes in the United States is estimated at $174 billion each year.”
Our schools aren’t helping. Over 30 million children eat federally funded [...]

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Join the School Lunch Revolution

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On July 30, BlackLight Power announced a commercial license agreement with Maryland-based Akridge Energy. BLP will allow Akridge to use their energy producing process for generating electricity in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Colombia, up to a maximum continuous capacity of 400 MW.

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When it comes to organics there are foods you should always buy organic and then some that are on the fence. I’d say that Halloween pumpkins are way on the fence. Why even bring this up – I mean it’s only flipping August. Well, the best way to get an organic pumpkin on the cheap (organic pumpkins can cost a lot) is to grow your own. However, if you grow your own, you’ll need to get going asap.

Let’s look at the cons:

Organic pumpkins are large, heavy, and can cost substantially more than non-organic.
Organic pumpkins are free from pesticides, but in [...]

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Pros and cons of organic Halloween pumpkins

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