Introduction by Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World The horses have it! Today, in Louisville at the Kentucky Derby their heading towards the starting gate. And here in Santa Ynez in just a couple of hours over 600 hundred riders will be heading towards the Santa Inez [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World What’s a hat got to do with it? The Kentucky Derby would never be the same without them. Other than a royal wedding, no event is more strongly associated with the wearing of ostentatious hats than the Kentucky Derby. Alternatively [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Whole body, mind and spirit Olivia helps others heal In July, Olivia will celebrate a long awaited dream in Melbourne Australia. The opening of a world-class Cancer & Wellness Centre dedicated to providing the very best in medical care and [...]

By Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEco Editorial Assistant and author of the Resplendent Repurposing series
I found a black leather unisex blazer from the Gap: $20.00 at Goodwill in Van Nuys. Someone recently told me he owns the identical blazer. He paid $300.00 for it. by Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEco Editorial Assistant

By Dow-Yung Kou, LuxEco Editorial Assistant

Sometimes a dream can go a long way. This cannot be more true for the 3 designers featured in this spread. Carrie Parry, Emily Factor, and Deborah Lindquist all at one point had a dream to create responsibly, and it was through their imagination and will power that they have created successful and beautiful lines that are trendsetting not just for the Eco-Community but for the world.

By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant You are terrified and frantic. You cram yourself, with six other women, into a three-foot by four-foot bathroom in a remote corner of your neighbor’s house. In order to survive, you will remain in this space for the next 91 days, with little to eat or drink, hardly room [...]

By Wendy Ross Kaplan, LuxEcoLiving Advocate

The term “gluten-free” is becoming more mainstream these days, when a trip to the grocery store can be rewarded with more healthy choices for shoppers. But before the 1960’s, only nutritionists and a handful of health nuts knew what gluten free meant. Nowadays, “gluten-free” has almost a cult following of otherwise regular folks seeking better health benefits and those suffering from diagnosed celiac disease, its varying manifestations and debilitating effects.

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World   This week we are taking you on a tour of a heritage site and garden located in Santa Barbara California. Join us as we explore the magnificent floral designs and landscape architecture that has made Ganna Walska’s Lotusland garden [...]

By: Molly Rovero, LuxEco Editorial Assistant Join LuxEco Living as we explore the wonder and magic of Lotusland in Santa Barbara California. In today’s episode we will join Nancy Chuda as she meets Executive Director Gwen Stauffer, who will introduce the garden and begin to guide us through a journey across 37 acres of awe [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World  How many parents are sleepless in America? Did you know that Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) can lead to early death? Shhhhooooooshhhhh! April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. There are over 750,000 reports of child maltreatment each year. It’s a fact. [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Cows have a voice too! If you can stomach, actually bare witness to a revolting revolution called pink slime, food guru Jamie Oliver has a few bones to pick.  Watch this clip now! Then, c’mon back for more. Slimier stories [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World   Have you ever had a center stage moment when you are the envy of every woman (and even a few men) in a room? Even if the room happens to be one of many at the spectacular and historic [...]

Candice Held dresses have inspired us at LuxEco Living to think outside the box when it comes to sourcing eco-conscious materials. Saving the environment is not just about finding rare and exotic eco-friendly materials. In fact, sometimes it can be as simple as extending the life of the clothing already in our closets.

By Nancy Chuda  founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Spring is here. You feel like you need a break. A two-night stay, somewhere not too far from home, a place once discovered, you will want to return to every year. You can stretch it! The dollar goes a long [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Reporting from Casa Madrona in Sausalito California A Restaurant Review                     Sushi Ran is a jewel! It satisfies not only the palette but an ecominded piscivore’s conscience.         [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and editor-in-chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. Do drop in when in San Luis Obispo. Visit the mission, have a coffee at Novo, creek side and then get ready to share a meal with some foodie friends. Luna Red is an exquisitely conceived  avant garde restaurant that [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. Reporting from San Simeon California. “San Simeon was the place God would have built–if he had the money.” In 1941, the lights  dimmed at La Questa Encantada when the movie  Citizen Kane,  Orson Welles homage to newspaper baron William Randolph [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. This year Healthy Child Healthy World is celebrating its twentieth anniversary.  We have much to be proud of and grateful for beginning with the everlasting memory of a little girl whose short life, only five years, was for a greater [...]

By  Florence Ross, author, poet and  LuxEcoLiving Advocate Indescribable In my lexicon of languages, of all the words I know I cannot find the proper words for you If I were only able to find the words to show How wonderful you are, I‘d say a few But adjectives evade me, they can’t describe enough [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Health World Lead in her Lipstick? Not Meryl! Not in real life. But as Margaret Thatcher it seems to fit the character. According to a new FDA study, the media highlighted a federal analysis revealing that approximately 400 shades of popular lipsticks contained [...]