By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEco Living and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Having just returned from Burgundy, France as guests of Benjamin and Frances Haas who have a magnificent farm house that they rent, it was hard not to miss Le Fromage and the fine Pommard and Montrachet wines. The [...]
TO INVENT FIRE by Joe Henry
By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World As 2011 comes to an end, I feel a somberness lying heavy on the world. Christmas and the lights of all religions, seem to have finally dimmed for me under those timeless shadows of greed, separateness and man’s inhumanity [...]
Apple Will Get The Job Done!
Introduction by Nancy Chuda Founder of LuxEcoLiving and Editor in Chief and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
I am proud to say that my charity, Healthy Child Healthy World, earned early recognition when I was a journalist and reporter for ABC news. Our first grant was an Apple computer. The irony in all this is that we lost Steve to cancer. He was a hero. A person with a rare intelligence. Steve Job’s brain was wired for success. He had a synaptic response to create just about everything Apple. We lost a legend but we gained a universe that in its totality has created a new religion: Interconnectedness. Life goes on for Apple and I will be true to the core.
Something To Crow About
By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor in Chief and of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World How many of you have seen the Alfred Hitchcock’s movie about the crows? You’ve heard the expression, “It’s for the birds.” Well in this case crows happen to be as intelligent as chimpanzee’s. In fact, they are [...]
A Gluten-Free Choice for Celiac Disease Prevention and Healthy Living
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.
Male Breast Cancer on the Rise
By Lorri Ballance Laird, LuxEcoLiving Advocate
Male breast cancer is on the rise, according to researchers at the University of Leeds, yet awareness of the disease is low and most men are not aware they are at risk.
The study, funded by Breast Cancer Campaign and Yorkshire Cancer Research, University of Leeds, reviewed male breast cancer cases in four Western countries: England, Scotland, Canada and Australia. According to the researchers, the incidence of male breast cancer in England rose over a 20 year period, from 185 cases in 1986 to 277 cases in 2006.
Are we Connecting?
Connected: Looking at love, death and technology in the 21st century Courtesy of Marketplace Listen to this Story Tiffany Shlain, technophile and filmmaker, discusses her new documentary and what it means to be connected — technologically and emotionally. Kai Ryssdal: It is, most of the time, great to be connected — to be able to [...]
Mind the Gap through Cooperative Thinking
By Karen Barnes, VP Insight, @barneshead courtesy of The Shelton Group
I’m a Tom Friedman groupie. So when I saw his new book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back, I grabbed it in the airport bookstore yesterday. I had a short flight, so I’ve only read 65 pages – but my brain’s already churning and connecting dots about economic sustainability.
Moms on a Mission Protect Children’s Health
Sweet Charity for a Mom with a Mission: Health Child Healthy World Arms Parents with Information about Environmental and Chemical Pollutants By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World This year First Lady Michelle Obama selected Healthy Child Healthy World as one of her favorite causes. [...]
If I Could
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Hands by Guido Daniele
By Florence “Flip” Ross, LuxEcoLiving Advocate and Contributor
If I could bring the planet Earth, back to its natural beauty
If I could sing its praise, and make the world assume its duty
If I could make the industries clean up their foul pollution
Our air, our water, would be clean, and would be the solution
If I could force our corporations to help clean up our planet
To Own a Piece of History: The Old St. Angela Bed & Breakfast Monterey California
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World You don’t want to miss the breakfast or the bed at The Old St. Angela Inn. Please Dianne, will you share your recipe? The sound of the gulls and salty smell of the sea awakens the [...]
Passing a knife through a melon could make you sick
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World FDA confirms Listeria outbreak is linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado farm Every week we seem to be getting news about our food supply being tainted with dangerous pathogens that have caused serious illness and death.The Internet is [...]
Pay Attention
By Florence “Flip” Ross a LuxEcoLiving Advocate and Contributor We were very attentive to the Presidential Election, we are paying attention to the war in Afghanistan, we are very absorbed in what is going to happen to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We are very involved with who is going to win the Golden Globes [...]
A Parent’s Right to Know
By Wendy Ross Kaplan a LuxEcoLiving Advocate and contributor You pack your 12-year old a lunch, go through the last minute parent-love/instruction exercise, hug, wave, and watch your darling child go off to school in the morning. What you don’t know is that medical personnel at school will have the right to inject a vaccine [...]
How To Create An Oasis: Your Residential Bathroom Spa
By Stephanie Nickolson a contributing LuxEcoLiving advocate and Interior Designer How To Create Your Own Residential Oasis It wasn’t that long ago that the meaning of the word “spa” conjured up an image of traveling a distance, to escape to a destination, a resort or spa or other place away from home to enjoy [...]
Watch:Do You Believe In Math?
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World It is astounding that over one million people watched this YouTube clip, Do You Believe In Math? I’m worried! First we are losing cursive and the fact that it is not being taught in schools. Now, some are [...]
A Healthy Pet is a Happy Pet
By Allison Mowatt Courtesy of Live Healthy Live Green It’s hard not to be aware of the numerous health benefits eating organically has on the human body. Not only do you feel more energetic and sport a healthier complexion but you also build a stronger immune system, keeping colds and viruses at bay more [...]
Ignorance Isn’t Green: But It’ll Cost Ya!
By Trish Holder Courtesy of Greenspiration Home Are you a blissfully ignorant homeowner? Do you eat, drink, shower, sleep, wash dishes, etc. in your home, never giving any thought to how any of its systems work, until one day…. they don’t? That’s a bad day, isn’t it? It’s a bad day because you know that looming [...]
Solar Tube Lights: A Great Way To Bring Natural Light into a Windowless Room!
By Trish Holder Courtesy of Greenspiration Home One of two solar tube in kids’ bonus room. “Is that a solar tube light or have tiny flying saucers landed on your house?”I’m sure our neighbors have wondered this – at least if they get a view of the backside of our roof after dark. We have [...]
Home Size: How Big is Too Big?
By Trish Holder Courtesy of Greenspiration Home “We’re going to die,” I pronounced. We were in the third hour of our drive to Folly Beach, SC for our family summer vacation and going through a brief but intense thunderstorm. The lightening strikes were so close I swear I could feel their heat. Until that point [...]
How Can I Get My Child’s School To Be Greener & Safer?
By Janelle Sorensen, Chief Communications Officer, Healthy Child Healthy World Expert Opinion courtesy of Healthy Child Healthy World When my husband and I toured schools to find the one we wanted to enroll our daughter in, I’m sure I was silently voted one of the strangest parents ever. Why do I feel I was secretly [...]
Which Water Filter System Is Right For Your Home?
By Janelle Sorensen, Chief Communications Officer, Healthy Child Healthy World Expert Opinion courtesy of Healthy Child Healthy World Healthy Child Healthy World receives a lot of questions from people wondering which water filter they should buy. But, it’s a tough question to answer because drinking water quality varies from place to place, depending on the [...]
Start Something That Matters Most: Ben and Blake Two Good Soles
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to [...]
New Research Finds 9/11 First Responders at Risk for Persistent Health Problems
Courtesy of Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, Principal Investigator for Mount Sinai’s WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program. Founding and Honorary Board Member of Healthy Child Healthy World. The attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001 (9/11) created an environmental disaster of unprecedented scale for the New York area, says a [...]
90210 Salutes the Brave and Remembers 9/11
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World 90210 erects monument to honor 9/11 victims and survivors This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It is a day that we mourn the tremendous courage of the many people who lost their lives and the loved [...]
Chemicals Linked to Thyroid Disease; Ten Tips To Protect Your Health
By Lorri Ballance Laird, LuxEco Advocate Three summers ago, I suddenly found myself exhausted and depressed. I slept for four to five hours a day after seeing my son off on the summer camp bus, and I couldn’t manage to take care of my household. A visit to my doctor revealed my problem—my thyroid had [...]
Nature is Art
By Florence “Flip” Ross a LuxEcoLiving contributor and advocate It is such a beautiful world, have you noticed the various hues? When I step out the door in the morning, I’m swept away by the views The blue of the sky, the green of the grass, the white clouds floating above combine to make [...]
I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl
Kelle Groom’s nonfiction memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Free Press) is a title wave of emotions wrapped in heart-shaped box, a keepsake for all time.
Dreaming of Celestial Love- An Eco Fashion Love Story
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.
Green Bees Buzz: Insider Films with a Mission
Introduction by Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World I had the great fortune of meeting Laura Turner Seydel many years ago when our charity, (CHEC) Healthy Child Healthy World was in the early stages of development. Honorary Board Member and a founding board of director, [...]





