Tag: environment
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Whole Foods Market is helping and harming the environment
By: Gloria Stovall Where do you buy your groceries? Is your preferred place to shop living up to its “eco-friendly” and “green” standards or causing harm to the environment? Businesses and organizations are exceedingly influential with the proven capability to both positively and negatively impact the environment. For example, Whole Foods Market, with an impressive…
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The vegan lifestyle is also about sustainability
By: Gloria Stovall I hope and pray you are thriving, taking time to reflect on the positive and good things in your life, enjoying the vegan lifestyle or considering going vegan. I am doing well as the Good Lord has been so good to me, and I am so blessed and thankful for His grace…
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Cultivating a Healthy Environment: Starting at Home
Guest Blog Entry is by Rich Johnson of Better Healthier Life. In our pursuit of a sustainable and flourishing planet, the role of individual households cannot be overstated. A healthy environment is not solely the responsibility of governments and industries; it begins at the grassroots level – within our own homes. By making conscious choices…
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How to Handle the Pressures of Climate Change
Guest Blog Entry is by Mark Harris of Awareness Toolkits. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to deny or ignore the negative impacts of climate change, greenhouse gases, and global warming. Harmful emissions are taking a toll on the environment and posing a serious threat to the sustainability of the planet. If you worry about climate change and the…
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The harmful effects of litter
By Gloria Stovall Litter harmfully affects the environment in numerous ways, and even though all states have littering laws that make the act of littering illegal, people insist on doing it. Sadly, almost 80% of roadway litter is from motorists and pedestrians and it is no surprise littering is a deliberate act as people litter due…
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Vegans should get tax breaks for helping save the planet
By Gloria Stovall Vegans are significantly helping to save the planet simply by living a lifestyle that abstains from the exploitation of another living being and should get tax breaks. I will explain. Did you know that changing the foods you consume will have a huge impact on your carbon footprint by reducing pollution, preserving the…
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18 reasons why you should stop consuming dairy
By Gloria Stovall To say the dairy industry and I do not like each other is an understatement, to say the least; but that was not always the case, as I grew up devouring dairy by the ton…milk, cheese, cream, butter, ice cream, yogurt and everything else that contained dairy; but once I began to…
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Vegans are not vegetarians and vegetarians are not vegans
By Gloria Stovall More often than not, when I go out to eat and inform the waitress/waiter that I am a vegan, I am usually given the options of dishes that include cheese, eggs, seafood and sometimes poultry. When this happens, I try not to lose my patience; and politely reiterate that I am a…
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Vegan athletes who are powered by plants!
By Gloria Stovall Results speak for themselves as the vegan diet has proven to be the most beneficial, effective, advantageous, disease fighting, ethical, humane and environmentally friendly diet on the face of the planet. The vegan diet has also proven to be exceedingly beneficial for athletes as the powerful protein and plant compounds in a…
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Contrary to popular belief, the vegan diet naturally yields high quality protein
By Gloria Stovall Words simply cannot express how beneficial, rewarding and amazing the vegan lifestyle has been for me for the past 13 years; so when people ask if I would ever consider going back to consuming animals and animal products, I passionately tell them without any hesitation whatsoever, “absolutely not!” There is a wealth…
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