Author: Erin Elizabeth

For every beautiful island around the world, there is a dark and disgusting problem- millions of plastic bottles, caps, bags, etc. strewn all over the shores, littering the beach. Plastic pollution is now threatening to make these beautiful spaces disappear altogether. But this crisis had a spec of hope in an inspired surfer in Bali named Kevin Kumala, “I was with a friend sitting outside a bar and we were seeing hundreds of motorcyclists wearing vinyl ponchos,” he recalls. “It clicked that these disgusting, toxic ponchos would be used a few times and then discarded, but they would not...

For the last several years, something strange has been going on in Oklahoma. While the occurrence of earthquakes in the state usually hovers between one to three quakes annually, Oklahoma is now averaging one to three significant earthquakes per day. According to a newly released USGS earthquake risk map, Oklahoma is now just as likely as San Francisco to experience a disruptive, damaging earthquake over the course of the next year. However, unlike San Francisco, Oklahoma’s heightened earthquake risk is not the work of any natural phenomenon, but rather a man-made one. Unlike most earthquake-prone states in the U.S.,...

We here at Health Nut News LOVE the earth and anything that can help to heal it from the damage we’ve already done OR prevent further damage from happening. So, it goes without saying that we love recycling and that’s why we wanted to share this story with you. With the desire of seeing the city’s recycling rate rise to match the national average, Denver Recycles, a division of Denver Public Works, is helping people “sort out” what can and can’t go into the recycling bin. They hope to see Denver divert at least 34 percent of the household...

We are SHOCKED and saddened to report that on March 2nd, Amish farmer (and father and grandfather) Samuel Girod- who we have reported on before– was found guilty by a federal jury for making and distributing herbal products on his family farm. The FDA requires manufacturers of defined drugs to register their facility with them and the Girod farm is not registered. He will be sentenced by a judge on June 16 at 10 a.m. Watch this video I made below: In the end, the government charged Girod with conspiracy to impede an officer, obstruction of a proceeding before an...