Author: Erin Elizabeth

Thank you, Oprah! After recently interviewing the US president of the Humane Society, Wayne Pacelle, Oprah pledged to participate in meatless Mondays and asked her huge fanbase to do the same! You can watch her entire interview below. Wayne Pacelle appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show, Super Soul Sunday, to discuss the connection between humans and animals. In fact, and I LOVE this, Pacelle discussed with her the “schizophrenic” type relationship we have with animals; we proclaiming that we LOVE them while continuing to exploit them for food, fashion, and entertainment. In the interview, Pacelle offers Ms. Winfrey advice on small ways...

For many people, the idea of living self-sufficiently makes them want to cringe. For others, they can’t wait to get “off the grid”. But while people’s comfort level with self-sufficiency runs the gamat, most people understand the more you can do for yourself- the better. Home farming, canning, sewing, raising chickens, etc, has all become more popular as of late and I don’t imagine it will slow down anytime soon. And a family in Los Angeles is doing that exact thing, in an urban environment; the Dervaes family, who live 15 minutes from the city, have turned their 1/10th...