Hello everyone! As you all know, the new year is approaching, and this means one thing: New Year’s resolutions. This year, though, you have some help with your resolutions: Lollihop! Lollihop is a fantastic service that provides hand-picked healthy snacks right to your door every month. It’s the new way to snack healthy. We know that finding delicious healthy snacks is difficult, but it doesn’t need to be. That’s why…
ABOUT THE FILM:Many advanced civilizations vanished because they did not take care of their soil. This film is about a new, progressive, and advanced practice of agriculture, that will regenerate the soil. With Regenerative Agriculture we create healthier food, build communities, and most importantly increase the top soil. Top soil, the skin of the earth, is where the life of the plant exists, and that is where our food comes…
By Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati: Sitting in my office in downtown Boston I stared out the frosted glass and dreamt of Italy. A small farm filled with animals wandering in green pastures, clucking at my heels, waiting eagerly to have grain and hay thrown into their troughs. One more month, and I would be volunteering on a small organic dairy farm nestled in the pristine Italian countryside. While I had been…
In a frozen dinner first, the new Candle Cafe Frozen Meals support Farm Sanctuary’s lifesaving work on behalf of neglected and abused farm animals! Inspired by the chefs and recipes of New York City vegan restaurants Candle Cafe and Candle 79, and in partnership with The Hain Celestial Group natural and organic foods company, the Candle Cafe Frozen Meals follow the restaurant’s mission to better the individual and the planet…
Hemp or Cannabis Sativa is a tall, vigorous annual that has been grown and used throughout history. Its closest relative is the hops plant. Hemp has many benefits to us all and is kind to the planet. Used as a strong, yet soft fabric, a substitute to virgin tree pulp in paper, an alternative to petrochemicals in plastics, an option as a fuel source, a moisturizing cosmetic, a healing drug…
“Just wanted to drop a note and say thanks. I’ve reached my goal of 15-20 pounds (I lost 20!)and feel great! Today’s bike ride was a strong 100 miles that wouldn’t have been the same 20 lbs ago.” -Matthew, AZ “I have lost fourteen pounds so far since starting Gobble Green’s Challenge. Not only am I losing weight, which has never been easy for me, but I can feel my…
THE BEST IN THE WORLD: Vegan wrestler makes it to the top against all the odds Professional wrestling. A battleground for larger than life personalities, superhuman feats of athleticism, and pageantry, circumstance and theatre amped up beyond belief. Say what you will about the performance art of professional wrestling, you cannot deny that there is simply nothing like it. From the boys’ club that dominated the genre in its infancy,…
From the comic strip by MC Miller and Jen Hernandez, “Plant Life” (with permission): For more from Plant Life, see: www.veganmainstream.com/category/plantlife What’s your take on this issue? Do you keep leather clothing that was from before you went vegan?…
From the comic strip by MC Miller and Jen Hernandez, “Plant Life” (with permission): For more from Plant Life, see: www.veganmainstream.com/category/plantlife…
by Sadie The Intrepid Herbivores While following a vegan lifestyle is easy for many, it has its challenges for others. When you’re at home you can cook for yourself, you know all the best restaurants and grocery stores in town and you find your groove and revel in it. But when you travel, particularly to a foreign country, and ESPECIALLY one you’ve never been to before and whose language you…
With just a few weeks until Brisbane’s environmental festival, Green Earth Day takes place, the not for profit environmental awareness Green Earth Group is preparing to guide others towards planting the seeds of change needed to ensure that we are protecting our environment for future generations. Green Earth Day will take place on Saturday 12 March at the Albion Peace Centre: 102 McDonald Road, Windsor. This wide ranging family-friendly festival…
A Takeover of Healthcare Reform By Alan Roettinger The cost of treating diseases has been a scandal lately. Truthfully speaking, the debate is all about medical insurance, not healthcare. The real issue driving the national argument remains largely unacknowledged. Healthcare is our own responsibility, and to the extent that we’ve failed to take care of our health, we’ve opted to place that responsibility solely on the medical profession, like careless…
By Sarah Taylor, Author, Vegan in 30 Days What do you say when people ask you why you eat a veg*n diet? It’s certainly not a common diet in our society and, to many, it may seem next to impossible to endure. You may know why you’ve chosen to eat a vegetarian/vegan diet, but can you explain it eloquently to others? Many people take two extremes when questioned about their…