How to Buy Organic Food Inexpensively
New book shows you how
by David Hennessey

Author’s Family on welfare able to afford organic food
Many consumers are seeking better food choices including the choice to buy and eat organic foods. However, there is a common perception that organic food is only for the financially wealthy. Yet with the tips in this book the author’s family while on welfare were able to eat organic food for five months till they succeeded in getting back into the workforce. They have continued eating 95% plus certified organic for seven years now and doing so on a tight budget.

According to an article just published on The Tyee by Vanessa Richmond, it seems that..."jeans are a habit we need to kick. Dov Charney, the man behind American Apparel, calls cotton 'the nicotine of clothing.' And jeans, it seems, are double-strength menthols. No 'light' in sight."

Read the whole article:
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/09/18/GreenJeans/

According to the latest global data on organic farming, more than 31 million hectares of farmland are under organic management worldwide, a gain of around five million hectares in a single year. A major increase of organic land has taken place in China, where nearly three million hectares of pastoral land were recently certified, according to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).

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Dear Friends and EcoNews Readers,
Among my various activities, I am involved in launching a new national non-profit society, called Prevent Cancer Now.

We are building a Canada-wide movement that will do whatever it takes to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer.

This has gone on long enough. We need to get the toxins and pollutants out of our lives and out of nature, once and for all. Sweden has set a goal to eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020. We can and must do the same here in Canada. We are also organizing a major national conference for cancer prevention in May 2007. Our website is www.preventcancernow.ca

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Here in BC, several local wineries produce organic wines. Hainle Vineyards plowed the organic field in the early 1990s along with Summerhill Estate Winery, while more recent arrival Lotusland has a range of whites and reds.

http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/04/10/DirtOrganicWines/