In Short:
Those assholes trying to ruin the environment and our health at the same time Monsanto has been trying to pass genetically modified alfalfa to the USDA. This has incredibly horrendous effects on our organic food industry as a whole.
Please take (literally) 10 seconds to sign the petition and help stop this pending approval.
Go to Food Democracy Now to sign. Thanks!
Recently addicted to Peet’s peppermint hot chocolate (for shame! I know…), I was waiting for my sugar rush and browsed the tea section. In said tea section, I noticed a tea called “Ancient Trees”.
Since the label exclaims “Rare Teas”, I got worried. So google helped me find the corporate head quarters mailing and email address! My email went as follows:
Jenn – “Does the ‘Ancient Trees’ tea in fact contain ancient trees (old growth none the less)? That would really suck. Please advise. Jenn Segale”
Peet’s has not yet replied.
If you would like to ask them, the address is:
Peet’s Corporate Offices
Mailing address:
Peet’s Coffee & Tea
P.O. Box 12509
Berkeley, CA 94712-3509
Home Office
1400 Park Ave
Emeryville, CA 94608
Toll-free phone number:
800-999-2132 in the US and Canada
(From Mexico and countries outside of North America, please call 510-594-2950)
Email: webmail@peets.com
**Ohhh, and to help save ancient old growth trees – don’t buy this tea and donate here
70% of the processed food we eat is genetically modified. The coffee you drink at Starbucks. The meat you eat almost anywhere. And almost 90% of what you buy from Safeway – including gum, toothpaste, and diapers. For more info watch this movie.
Get ready to cry and barf at the same time.
Greenwashing is used everyday by thousands of companies, and is pretty easy to spot if you have your eyes open. For example, do you really think Shell oil company is “sustainable”?
Oil we take from the earth = Sustainable?
Hmm. Not so much.
Or… Do you really think Monsanto’s (THE INVENTORS OF AGENT ORANGE AND ROUNDUP AND A SLEW OF OTHER DEADLY PRODUCTS) roundup ready soybeans are going to feed the world and end hunger?
Hmm. Eww and Not so much.
Especially since third world countries are rejecting them! Saying they are unsafe!
I.E. – people who are starving say they do not want those dirty ass soybeans!
How can you keep an eye out and try to avoid being scammed by greenwashing yourself… bookmark these sites and check them out from time to time. I know, I know they are not as exciting as Perez Hilton, but hey information can be just as addicting as the latest picture of Spidey!
Celebrating garden design and addressing our current environmental challenges… Cornerstone will be hosting The Late Show Gardens, Sonoma.
I’m still debating if it’s worth going for just the shows, but I’m headed out to see Ken Druse and Topher Delaney. For more info visit www.thelateshowgardens.org
The only cotton you wear is fair trade, your fridge is packed with organic, locally sourced produce, and all of your paper is recycled. But what about your love life? Well thanks to the new French Letter Condoms you can now have that one covered as well.
As well as Aphrodisiac, there are three other varieties available: check out their full range of fair trade condoms, including Stimulating Massage, Sheer Caress and Linger Lust.
The condoms are made entirely from fair trade and FSC certified rubber provided by Fair Deal Trading, and carry the BSI kitemark, so you can be assured that they are as safe as any other available brand.
Each pack contains twelve fair trade condoms.
Whilst you’re in the mood why not also check out other related items: at ethicalsuperstore.com
I’m signed up to every organic, ecological, left-wing, hippy, agriculture, horticulture, soil science, aquaculture, environmental, social justice website available. It’s sickening. Constant contact must sell me left and right… Anyway, one of the many emails I get every week comes from The Organic Consumers Association
and they actually are worth opening up and reading. Yes. That’s right. I suggest you click on this link – scroll through the page – and actually read one or more of their articles. Not everything they write about is interesting to me, but every time I make the time to read the newsletter, I’m glad I did. The honey bee information has been my favorite. It’s incredible what’s going on and how our bees are being effected. Check it out.
DGG is a sister company to Wildflower Farms, our organic landscape design company based out of Half Moon Bay, California.
For information and to get started on your next landscape project please contact Jennifer at Wildflower Farms or 650-726-5883