Holistic Living articles:

The True Cost

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Cheap fashion rides on the back of workers—predominantly woman and often children—in countries such as Bangladesh and India who earn less than $3 a day and live with toxic byproducts of manufacturing.

Stink!

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The chemicals in fragrance are known to cause infertility, birth defects, diabetes, learning disabilities and cancer, and can mutate DNA. Yet because of the fragrance loophole, the manufacturers can completely hide these ingredients.

A Community Garden to Fill My Empty Nest

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The garden masters are old, and mostly cranky. “It’s past nine. You can’t water past nine, city rules. If it were my rules, you’d be out.” It was 9:15. I stopped watering and smiled. I have a vegetable garden, my first.

Genetically Modified Salmon Are Approved

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They say it is as safe for humans as farmed salmon, [but] considering the hazards of farmed salmon—viruses, saturated fat, disease, antibiotics, sea lice, 11 times more dioxin than wild salmon—it’s not much of an endorsement.

The North Pond Hermit: 27 Years in the Woods

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“With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant… I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free.”