Tag: health and wellness
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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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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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Valentine’s Day Special Edition: Featuring romantic recipes from Gwen Kenneally’s The Plantastic Cookbook
By: Gloria Stovall I am feeling a bit romantic even though I do not have a Valentine this year, but even so, I still wanted to share a handful of delicious, easy to make, vegan, plant-based romantic recipes from Gwen Kenneally’s newest cookbook, The Plantastic Cookbook, for you and your Valentine; and if you do not…
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Blossoming in the Vegan Market: Growth Advice for New Businesses
Guest blog entry is by Mark Harris of Awareness Toolkits. Vegan-friendly businesses are at the intersection of compassion and commerce, representing a growing movement toward sustainable and ethical consumption. Success in this niche requires expertise in customer service, marketing, strategic structuring, networking, sustainability, and ethical sourcing. Your entrepreneurial journey in this promising market starts with…
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Vegan leather is ethical, attractive and affordable
By Gloria Stovall When I first became a vegan sixteen years ago, vegan fashion was the last thing on my mind as I was merely concentrating on the vegan diet instead of the vegan lifestyle; but as I matured as a vegan, if you will, I began to embrace the complete vegan lifestyle as opposed…
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Come to Chicago for authentic vegan food!
By Gloria Stovall Chicago is most definitely, without a doubt, the greatest city in the world, regardless of what the critics and negative news syndicates say about Chicago, I genuinely love Chicago, and would not want to live anywhere else in the world. The only other city that comes close to the awesomeness of Chicago would…
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32 disturbing facts the animal agriculture industry does not want you to know
By Gloria Stovall For those of you who are not vegan, I wholeheartedly recommend watching live documentaries about animal welfare in the animal agriculture industry, so you can know firsthand how you are significantly contributing to the most horrific animal abuse and cruelty on the face of the earth. There are literally no words to describe…
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My favorite vegan protein powders on the market
By Gloria Stovall When I first went vegan 15 years ago, vegan protein powder was not nearly as popular as it is today, not to mention the diverse variety of appealing flavors that are now available. Back then you only had two flavors, chocolate, and vanilla, and that was about it! Today, in addition to chocolate and…
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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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Vegan chocolate cake with vegan chocolate buttercream frosting
By Gloria Stovall Featured above is one of the most yummy, exquisite, mouthwatering, rich, moist, chocolate vegan cakes I have ever tasted in my 15 years of being a vegan; and to make this delightful vegan cake more irresistible, it was smothered and covered in a luscious, creamy, smooth, sweet, vegan buttercream chocolate frosting that…
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