Whenever you mention organic most people immediately think of food. Truth is that you can lead a very ‘organic lifestyle’ these days from food and clothes to beauty essentials. With September being Organic month, we’ve had a look at some of the many products out there which are produced according to organic principles. First up: bath and beauty.
Your skin is the largest organ of your body and whatever you put on it can be absorbed – much like you are what you eat. As people have become more interested in using more naturally sustainable products in their lives we’ve seen a growing number of organic skincare and beauty products hit the market – and they’re not too badly priced either! However, unlike food, there are no legal standards to follow for organic beauty products so if you’re really after living an organic lifestyle you should check each product before you buy it. Look out for brands that follow the COSMetics Organic Standard, or Cosmos-standard and will be labelled with one or more of the following:
Here are our four picks from the bunch that lets you introduce a bit more ‘naturalness’ into your bath and beauty regime: (more…)
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September 28, 2011 | Categories: eco, Hospitals, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Business, Cosmetics, ECOCERT, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Human skin, Lotion, mantrameds, Moisturizer, Organic certification, Registered nurse, Shopping, Shower gel, Sustainability, sustainable | 1 Comment »
By Sarah Campbell
scampbell@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — During a recent afternoon at Millbridge Elementary, school nurse Sharon Beck held a blood glucose monitor steady while second-grader Kayla Woods pricked her own finger.
The two chatted until the device beeped, an indication the results were ready.
Kayla’s blood sugar was high, so Beck asked the type-1 diabetic a few questions.
“What did you have for lunch?”
“Did you eat all of your lunch?”
“Wasn’t your blood sugar low this morning?”
It turns out Kayla ate almost every bite of her burrito lunch that day.
After Kayla returned to class, Beck called her father to give him a heads up.
During the call, she asked when the 7-year-old’s next appointment with a doctor was and suggested checking to see if her diet needed to be adjusted.
But most days Beck isn’t around to help Kayla with her blood sugar checks, leaving the school’s administrative assistants to handle the task.
Each week, Beck travels between Landis Elementary School, Millbridge Elementary and Knox Middle.
And she’s not the only one. (more…)
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September 19, 2011 | Categories: eco, Hospitals, lifestyle, manufacturing, Nursing, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Nurses Association, Business, environment, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care provider, Hospital, jack miller., jerry wheeler, mantrameds, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing school, organic, Organic cotton, Registered nurse, School nurse, School nursing, Specialties, United States | 1 Comment »
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August 31, 2011 | Categories: eco, Hospitals, lifestyle, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Business, Clothing, eco, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, green, Health, Health care provider, Hindu, Hinduism, Hospital, jerry wheeler, Mantra, mantrameds, Medicine, Mother goddess, Nurse, Nursing, organic, Organic cotton, Organic farming, Organic food, Place of worship, practice green health, Product design, Shopping, United States | 6 Comments »
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- Eating 4 stalks of celery per day can help reduce high blood pressure?
- Broccoli and cauliflower are powerful cancer fighters?
- Strawberries can help prevent constipation?
- Eating between ½ and ¾ cups of beans per day has been shown to improve blood sugar control?
- Having gas and stomach cramps? Try a cup of basil tea!
- Dehydrated from diarrhea? Eat a banana to replace important electrolytes like potassium!
- Eating less meat protein can help ease joint tenderness and swelling?
- Eating 1 ounce of rice can get the serotonin flowing?
- Food allergies may play a role in ear infections?
Join Eva Stanley, Dipl. Ac for this fun and informative lecture on Food As Medicine! We will also be discussing how food sensitivities affect your digestion. Refreshments will be served
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Intimidated to change your diet? Be on the lookout for an upcoming field trip with Eva to our local Whole Foods Market! She will be your guide to help you find your way around the store and answer your questions so you can make better choices for your health.
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August 26, 2011 | Categories: eco, Hospitals, lifestyle, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability, Uncategorized | Tags: Business, Candidiasis, Charlie Munger, Denver, Eating, eco, Economic value added, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Food, Health, Nurse, Nutrition, organic, Organic cotton, Registered nurse, Russell 3000 Index, Shopping, The Related Companies, United States, Warren Buffett, Whole Foods Market | 1 Comment »
To innovate, you don’t need big, abstract ideas, just a fresh approach and some tools to help plot your successful execution.
That’s what you’ll get in a superb new book called Design for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers, by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie.
Ogilvie is the CEO of Peer Insight, an innovation strategy consultancy. Jeanne Liedtka, a professor and former associate dean at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, previously served as chief learning officer for the United Technnologies Corporation.
Designing for Growth is an illustrated guide that shows how to translate “design thinking” into practical, everyday tools. As the authors note, “Design thinking can do for organic growth and innovation what TQM did for quality – take something we always have cared about and put tools and processes into the hands of managers to make it happen.” In reading the book, it struck me how useful their tool would be in the publishing industry where ebooks and handheld readers have blown up the publishing value proposition.
To unpack the process of good design and apply it to a business problem, the authors start with a process of four questions, What is, what if, what wows, and what works? Essentially, these are translated as: (more…)
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June 30, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Business, Design, designthinking, E-book, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Kaiser Permanente, Knowledge Management, mantrameds, organic, Publishing, Publishing and Printing, scrubs | Leave A Comment »
Heather Atwood
Taylor Wells, 45, eats only raw vegan food. The younger of her five children, Phoenix, 4, and 14-month-old twins Dakota and Montana, who are still nursing, have never eaten cooked foods in their young lives.
Taylor and husband Phillipe converted to a raw vegan diet after 7-year-old Sage was born, but waited for a while before introducing a completely raw food diet to the children.
For skeptics, Taylor, Phillipe and kids stand out on the urban streets only for being enviably fit and attractive. No anemic, sandaled vegan cliches here; Taylor is powerful, petite with shiny blond hair and a gleaming smile; Phillipe has a square jaw and steely arms. They drive the kids to softball in a green mini-van, have roomfuls of plastic toys for all the kids, and wink at 13-year-old Madison’s occasional Starbucks frappuccino with friends. (more…)
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June 28, 2011 | Categories: manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs | Tags: Agriculture, Best practice, Coconut oil, eco, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Food, Green Power Partnership, Lifestyle Choices, mantrameds, New York City, Nurse, organic, Organic Farm, Organic food, practice green health, Raw foodism, Registered nurse, scrubs, Shopping, sustainable, Vegetarian, Vegetarianism | Leave A Comment »
Whether you’re a new nurse or a seasoned nurse, it’s always intriguing to take a look back at the history of the nursing profession.
This list provided by carenurse.com illuminates the day-to-day tasks and regulations pertaining to the life of a nurse in 1887—before routine charting was even invented.
1887 Nursing Job Description (more…)
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June 21, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, eco, environment, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care, History, mantrameds, Nurse, Nursing, organic, Organic farming, Organizations, Patient, practice green health, Registered nurse, scrubs, sustainable, United States | Leave A Comment »
By PAULA SIROIS
Some of us love cleaning, some of us hate cleaning and a subset of us haters, really hate – with a passion and all-consuming disgust – everything to do with cleaning. I fall into the latter group. I’m also a green freak, cheap freak and health freak. Kind of makes keeping house tough. But I also have a stubborn gene, which has allowed me to maintain my standards and clean my house. Here is my three-day plan to makeover your approach to cleaning:
Day one – Stockpile: It’s time to toss the heavy-duty chemical, don’t-breathe-in-while-cleaning supplies. After you’ve detoxed, head to the closest store to pick up your new, green, cheap cleaning provisions: baking soda, vinegar, lemons, limes, oranges, a bottle of vodka, some sea salt and a couple of scrubbing brushes. No, I’m not proposing baking while drinking. You’re collecting safe and effective tools of the cleaning trade: Vodka is a great disinfectant that doesn’t leave streaks; sea salt replaces abrasive scrubs; and vinegar can clean just about anything (and if you add some baking soda, you’ll have a great big bubbling scrubbing mix). Drop in the juice from the fruit and everything smells natural, healthy and clean. (more…)
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June 21, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, Business, eco, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, mantrameds, Organic cotton, Organic Farm, practice green health, recycled, Registered nurse, scrubs, sustainable | Leave A Comment »
Scotts Valley, CA
The Camp Recovery Center’s medical director is opening up a new range of treatment options for men and women suffering from drug or alcohol addiction.
Amy Solomon, M.D., is a board certified family physician with more than 10 years of experience practicing medicine. In addition to serving as medical director at The Camp, she has her own integrative medical practice in Ben Lomond, Calif.
Since joining The Camp Recovery Center, Dr. Solomon has expanded the drug rehab program’s treatment offerings to include complementary and alternative therapies, herbal remedies and amino acid therapy. Included in treatment are two yoga sessions per week, twice weekly detox acupuncture groups, and individualized recommendations to replenish the body’s natural amino acids and nutrients.
“One of my goals is to bring addiction treatment at The Camp into a more integrative space,” said Dr. Solomon. “Building on the highly effective program already in place, clients can now choose from a full range of conventional and alternative therapies until they find what works for them.” (more…)
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June 21, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, American Nurses Association, Business, eco, environment, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care, mantrameds, Nurse, Nursing, organic, Organic farming, practice green health, scrubs, United States | Leave A Comment »
By Ashley Primis
Food Network chef Tyler Florence never overlooks the little things in life.
In 2009, he whipped up Sprout, a successful organic baby food line (available at select Wegmans and Whole Foods), and just this month, he released a kid-focused cookbook, Start Fresh: Your Child’s Jump Start to Lifelong Healthy Eating (Rodale Books), geared toward parents who are busy but who actually have tastebuds.
We couldn’t resist this crowd-pleaser remake, nor the fact that you get a complete meal on one pan. (more…)
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June 21, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs | Tags: Agriculture, American Nurses Association, Baby food, Business, Denver, Florence Nightingale, Food, Food Network, Health care provider, Home, Hospital, mantrameds, Nurse, organic, Organic cotton, Organic farming, practice green health, scrubs, sustainable, Tyler Florence, Wegmans, Wegmans Food Markets | Leave A Comment »
What we eat. What we purchase. What we wear. What we drink. How much we exercise. We set lofty goals for ourselves and then spend a large part of our time striving to attain them. What takes so long to get to where we want to go is that nothing is easy. Choices have to made. Some of the choices can be very difficult to make. To eat local or eat organic? Low VOC paint or recycled paint? Where do we obtain our drinking water from? What kind of furniture should we buy? What kind of disposable goods should we use? Paper or plastic?
These decisions are not only reserved for our private lives. They are becoming increasing imbued into the fabric of our business decisions. Trying to make the right decision isn’t so easy. But we don’t just want to be right. We want to be just, as well. Our conscience no longer allows most of us to choose convenience and cost OVER quality, safety and healthfulness. But what is right is dependent of the set of criteria that one values. (more…)
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June 17, 2011 | Categories: Nursing, organic, scrubs | Tags: Agriculture, eco, Florence Nightingale, Health care provider, mantrameds, organic, Organic cotton, Organic farming, practice green health, Registered nurse, scrubs, sustainable | Leave A Comment »
School nurses have to handle everything from acute problems like splinters and sprained ankles to chronic issues such as asthma and diabetes. They manage school physicals, deal with crisis counseling, keep track of immunizations and promote healthy lifestyle choices.
Communicating with Parents and Teachers. School nurses should consider contacting both parents and teachers via email with healthy reminders such as cold and flu prevention, proper hand washing techniques and advice for parents on keeping sick children at home. Encouraging feedback and regular communication helps keep everyone on the right track to health.
Natural Care for Injured or Ill Students. Although school budgets don’t always allow for organic and natural wellness products at schools, illness can be avoided with some very basic activities. Sheramy Vandernat, RN, BSN, offers these tips for nurses on how to keep kids healthy at school:
1. Encourage good hand hygiene
- To give kids an idea of how long it should take to thoroughly wash their hands, teach them to sing Happy Birthday or their ABCs twice while scrubbing. (Incidentally, the same singing idea applies for teeth brushing, although it’s much harder to sing with a toothbrush in your mouth.)
- Visit the CDC‘s website for the recommended hand washing technique.
- Teach parents and students that bottled hand sanitizers are intended for use when soap and water are inaccessible, not as a replacement. Although hand sanitizers are convenient, kids should still wash their hands with soap and water at the first opportunity for a more effective job. Also, be sure to use natural soaps over antibacterial ones, which almost always contain the precarious chemical triclosan or triclocarban. Both of these chemicals have been found to be endocrine disruptors and wreak havoc on our waterways. (more…)
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June 17, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Band-Aid, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eco, environment, Florence Nightingale, green, Hand washing, Health, mantrameds, Medicine, Nursing, Parent, School nursing, Student, sustainable, Teacher | Leave A Comment »
By Reed Miller
Madrid, Spain – Previous studies on the influence of coffee consumption on cardiovascular disease have shown conflicting results, but a new analysis from the massive Nurses’ Health Study suggests that coffee has no effect on the cardiovascular risk of women with known cardiovascular disease [1].
“The results of this study support the idea that people with heart disease who drink coffee do not need to stop drinking it, because this beverage does not increase their risk of having a fatal event,” study lead author Dr Esther Lopez-Garcia (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) told heartwire. The study is published online May 13, 2011 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Lopez-Garcia and colleagues note that heavy coffee consumption was shown to increase the risk of sudden cardiac death in a population case-control study [2], but another study of all-cause mortality in patients hospitalized for acute MI found a strongly protective effect of heavy coffee consumption after three months but not at four years [3]. A three-year study found no association between the cumulative consumption of nonfiltered coffee and the risk of a second cardiovascular event [4], and a 10-year prospective study in Sweden found that filtered coffee consumption in the year prior to an acute MI appeared to reduce the risk of all-cause mortality after the event [5]. As reported by heartwire, a small study in Germany showed that drinking coffee improved markers of subclinical inflammation and oxidative stress, while increasing HDL-cholesterol levels. (more…)
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June 17, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, organic, recycling, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Nurses Association, Cardiovascular disease, CVD, eco, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care, Health care provider, Heart disease, Myocardial infarction, Nurse, Nurses' Health Study, Nursing, organic, Organic cotton, Organic farming, Organic food, practice green health, Prospective cohort study, sustainable | Leave A Comment »
By Brian McNeill
After six years of planning, designing that included feedback and testing by doctors and nurses and $89 million worth of construction, the new eight-story patient tower at Boone Hospital Center will open next month.
The expansion on the southwest side of the medical complex began with the building of a parking garage and a facelift for Williams Street. The county hospital built 90 years ago has gradually become a major regional medical center.
The new patient tower has 128 beds — 40 for intensive care patients and 88 for medical and surgical patients — and it’s totally changed the way employees, doctors, visitors and patients get around to different departments, units and testing areas.
Even the 1921 time capsule has a new home.
If you’ve been to the hospital before and come to the open house on June 26, you’ll notice the transformation as soon as you step through the main entrance.
Gone is the small lobby with a cramped area for patient registration. The hospital’s old lobby will be renovated into a bistro area. (more…)
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June 17, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, American Nurses Association, Boone Hospital Center, Brian McNeill, Business, eco, Education, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care, Health care provider, Home care, Hospital, Intensive care unit, jerry wheeler, mantrameds, Medicine, organic, Organic cotton, Patient, Plastic bottle, practice green health, recycled, sustainable, Williams Street | Leave A Comment »
By Nedra Rhone
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Annette Rubin was pregnant with her first son when a scary thought entered her mind. If it wasn’t safe to color her hair during pregnancy, what about all the other products she put on her skin each day? She posed the question to her husband, Dr. Jason Rubin, a family practitioner, who admits he didn’t have a good answer.
“I said, the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] has jurisdiction over cosmetics, I’m sure they require something,” Rubin said. But they didn’t. The U.S. government does not regulate cosmetics or personal-care products at all. “The FDA standards on medication are amazing, but with cosmetics they take a different approach,” Rubin said.
So Rubin and his wife, a cosmetics industry veteran, launched Belli, a line of personal-care products for pregnant and nursing women (and babies) that avoids ingredients linked to birth defects. “It makes sense if an ingredient has a link to a birth defect, why not find another that doesn’t have a problem?” Rubin said.
The Washington-based brand, manufactured by Advanced Bio-Technologies in Suwanee, is just one example of a company seeking to help consumers make sense of the complicated issue of safety in personal-care products. (more…)
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June 10, 2011 | Categories: Nursing, organic, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, Beauty, Belli, Consumer, eco, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Health care provider, mantrameds, Natural Products Association, Nurse, organic, Organic Farm, Organic farming, Personal care, Plastic bottle, Registered nurse, sustainable, Whole Foods Market | Leave A Comment »
The sun is blazing, farmers markets are popping up everywhere and all you really want to do is go lie on a beach somewhere. Yes, June has arrived.
During the spring and summer it is easier than ever to get a hold of fresh produce. With all of the choices out there, That’s Fit narrows down a list of three of the best for you — and most delicious — superfoods for the month of June. Whether you’re making yourself a packed lunch for work, hosting a dinner party on your deck or having a picnic, these three foods can be easily added to your June diet.
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Although figs are available year-round, they add a little something extra to an early summer meal. They also happen to be chock full of fiber, calcium, potassium and iron. Although figs do contain some calories, they are extremely low in saturated fat, sodium and cholesterol. According to Katherine Brooking, registered dietitian and co-founder of AppforHealth.com, “[Figs] are often overlooked, but they are so so good for you!” (more…)
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June 9, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, American Nurses Association, Business, Dietary fiber, Eating, eco, environment, Ficus, Florence Nightingale, Health, Kale, mantrameds, Nurse, Olive oil, organic, Organic cotton, practice green health, scrubs, Sustainability, United States, Vitamin B6, Watermelon | Leave A Comment »
Sharon Tan is the Chief Executive Officer for Grains Handler Philippines Inc. and Executive Assistant to the Chairman and President, Foremost Farms Inc.
How did you get into organic foods?
I look for organic food because, for example, my children like chicken, so I give them free-range chicken. I buy organic gulay, berries, nuts, organic chicken, pork and eggs, even for breakfast.
Sometimes I succumb to my children’s preferences and buy them hot dogs and burgers, but only very rarely. (more…)
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June 9, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, organic, recycling, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, Benguet, Business, Education, environment, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care provider, mantrameds, Nurse, organic, Organic cotton, Organic Farm, Organic farming, Organic food, Plastic bottle, practice green health, Registered nurse, Sustainable Agriculture, United States | Leave A Comment »
By STEVE BROWN Capital Press
SALEM, Ore.—Organic studies haven’t traditionally been offered at land-grant universities, but these aren’t conventional ag students.
Aspiring farmers arriving on campus these days may come from big cities in addition to rural areas, and some are as interested in organic and small-scale agriculture as production farming.
“These kids come from the whole range,” said John Reganold of Washington State University. “Some have farmed for generations and want to learn organic, maybe shift part of the family operation to organic.”
Reganold, WSU regents professor of soil science and agroecology, advises students who major in organic agriculture. (more…)
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May 31, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, organic, recycling, scrubs, Uncategorized | Tags: Agriculture, American Nurses Association, California, Community-supported agriculture, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Nursing, Organic Farm, Organic farming, Organic food, Sustainability, sustainable, Sustainable Agriculture, United States, Washington State University | 1 Comment »
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May 26, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, recycling, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Business, Clothing, eco, environment, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care, Health care provider, jerry wheeler, Look and feel, Mantra, mantrameds, Nurse, Organic cotton, practice green health, recycled, Registered nurse, scrubs, Shopping, Siddhi, Sustainability, Textile, United States | 1 Comment »
By Jessica Chevalier
Healthcare accounts for just under 6% of the flooring industry’s annual $4 billion in commercial revenue, making it the smallest market segment. As the current and forthcoming growth of the healthcare sector is well documented, this may come as a surprise. However, flooring in the sector is expected to last and is often used ten or more years before it is replaced. Therefore, while the number of healthcare facilities may be increasing, replacement needs are low. Over the next years, however, significant growth is expected, from 249 million square feet of consumption in 2010 to an anticipated 355 million square feet in 2014, according to Market Insights/Torcivia.
The healthcare sector is divided into two segments: the acute care market and the long-term care or senior living market. The senior living market is a complex system, composed of many different types of care facilities: retirement housing, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care and rehabilitation. Though not all residents in this market are necessarily senior, the phrase “senior living” is used as a blanket term for the segment. Younger individuals with brain trauma or physical needs that require long-term care may live in the rehabilitation wings. In the past, much of the design budget for the senior living market was spent on the independent living units. Today, people expect all levels of care to have a polished residential or hospitality feel. (more…)
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May 26, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, manufacturing, Nursing, recycling, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Assisted living, Baby Boom Generation, Best practice, Business, Clothing, Continuing care, eco, Environmentally friendly, Florence Nightingale, Health, Health care, Health care provider, jerry wheeler, Long-term care, mantrameds, Nursing home, organic, Organic cotton, practice green health, recycled, Registered nurse, scrubs, Senior Health, Sustainability | Leave A Comment »
Eighty percent of baby products contain toxic or untested chemical flame retardants, according to a new study of products such as car seats, changing pads and portable cribs
Four brands — BabyLuxe Organic, Baby Bjorn, Orbit Baby and Boppy — say their products meet California’s standards.
One-third of products, which also included nursing pillows, contained a chemical called chlorinated tris, which was removed from children’s pajamas in the 1970s because of cancer concerns, though the chemical was never banned, says a study released Wednesday in Environmental Science & Technology.
The Environmental Protection Agency has said there is a “moderate level of concern” about links between tris and cancer, developmental problems, reproductive problems and other health concerns. The Consumer Product Safety Commission also has found that tris “may pose a significant health risk,” spokesman Scott Wolfson says. (more…)
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May 26, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, recycling, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Arlene Blum, California, environment, Flame retardant, Florence Nightingale, Health, Hospital, jerry wheeler, mantrameds, Nurse, organic, Organic cotton, Organic Wool, practice green health, Product (chemistry), Registered nurse, scrubs, sustainable, United States, USA Today | 1 Comment »
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Rhode Island Red chicks for sale at Rick’s Saddle Shop in Cream Ridge. / BRADLEY J. PENNER/staff photographer
The Cost of Keeping Chickens
Chicks: Range in price from $2 from catalogs to $10 per chick from feed stores like Rick’s Saddle Shop, varying based on breed and age.
Food: $15 per 50 pound bag, which feeds 10 chicks for 2 weeks, according to Rick’s Saddle Shop manager Kurry Walsh.
Coop: $300 for wood and chicken wire to build your own, or $500-$1,200 for pre-fabricated wood coops.
Eggs: Free, compared to conventionally grown eggs, $2.59 a dozen, and organic eggs, $4.79 a dozen, at Foodtown, Freehold. Hens lay one egg per day for the first two years of their lives.
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May 25, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, Nursing, recycling, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Bird, Business, Chicken, Chicken coop, eco, eggs, environment, Environmentally friendly, Farm, Florence Nightingale, Health care, Health care provider, Hobby farm, jack miller., mantrameds, New Jersey, Nurse, organic, Organic cotton, Plastic bottle, Poultry, practice green health, recycled, scrubs, Sustainability, sustainable | Leave A Comment »
By Aliza Wasserman
Courtesy of Inna’s Kitchen
Despite our best intentions to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable, healthy food and the critical role of cooking it at home, we know that the majority of unhealthy calories and the largest increase in food consumption over the past 50 years has occurred with food purchased outside of the home, according to the Keystone Forum on Away from Home Foods. One might wonder: why are Jewish food establishments not working to create more healthy and sustainable menus?
While there are a few options, like those at last week’s Deli Summit, they’re mainly located in the sustainable food meccas of New York and Berkeley. Last week, that list grew one restaurant stronger with Inna’s Kitchen, a new player in the Boston Jewish food scene. Opened last week by Inna Khitrik and her son Alex, Inna’s Kitchen is a new Jewish deli in Newton Centre focused on sustainable healthy Jewish foods from a variety of cultures. (more…)
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May 25, 2011 | Categories: recycling, sustainability | Tags: American Nurses Association, Clothing, eco, Environmentally friendly, Equal Exchange, Florence Nightingale, Health care, Home, Hospital, jerry wheeler, Jewish cuisine, Jews, mantrameds, Meat, New York, New York City, organic, Organic cotton, practice green health, Registered nurse, sustainable, United States | Leave A Comment »
Well, that depends on the question.
Of all the things I write about — energy, the greening of business, the politics and policy of climate change, geoengineering — food is by far the most emotional. With near-religious fervor, people debate the merits or demerits of, broadly speaking, two ways to produce food.
The first can be described, depending upon who’s talking, as big, fast, modern, conventional, industrial, intensive, chemical, genetically-modified, processed and global. It’s the system that delivers most of the food that most Americans eat. (more…)
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May 25, 2011 | Categories: Hospitals, recycling, sustainability | Tags: Agriculture, American Nurses Association, Clothing, DuPont, environment, Fertilizer, Florence Nightingale, Genetically modified food, Health care, jack miller., jerry wheeler, mantrameds, organic, Organic cotton, Organic farming, Organic food, practice green health, Sustainability, sustainable, Sustainable Agriculture, United States | 1 Comment »
