LuxEco Living supports Healthy Child Healthy World with 5% of all proceeds so that we all can have healthier children, a toxic-free environment and happier lives together.

1) “Green” Light: is to give permission or a go ahead to move forward with a project. 2) Effect: A result or change of something 3) Festival: an event staged by a local community that celebrates some unique aspect of that community On May 1st 2011, LuxEco Living will be debuting their monthly “Fete” that brings [...]

By: Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEcoLiving.com
What sounds better than clean, green, eco-conscious energy produced from the natural power of ocean currents in a way that protects the environment, promotes energy independence and sustains a local economy with jobs? Harnessing the power of the ocean to generate abundant renewable and sustainable energy sounds pretty good to me. Sign me up!
Ocean Renewable Power Company is one company that is looking to do just that. Using the same science and technology as wind turbines, ORPC has developed a modular system of Turbine Generator Units, or TGUs, that use rotating foils to power a central permanent magnet generator. While similar to wind turbines, this promising new technology offers exponential benefits as water is 800 times as dense and tides are much more consistent.

By: Janelle Sorensen, courtesy of Healthy Child Healthy World
Looking for a pediatrician is no easy task, especially if your concerns and parenting methods aren’t exactly the same as mainstream America. My husband and I scoured the city for a full year before finding the right one for our daughters. But, it totally paid off.
We found an amazingly supportive and brilliant pediatrician whose philosophy was to tell us everything she knew and then let us choose what to do. She had only one provision; if she ever thought the results of a treatment were sub-par, then she would intervene with an alternate recommendation. That never happened and I was always overwhelmed with how much she knew. She could rattle off statistics about best practices in the EU, pertinent studies regarding alternative remedies, and recent outbreaks that could put my children at risk. She was a dream come true. But, alas, we moved. Now we are on the hunt again.

By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEcoLiving.com

According to the US government, One third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives; many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and asthma. A recent study put the health care costs of obesity-related diseases at $147 billion per year. With rates having tripled over the last three decades and with millions effected and the percentage of obese or overweight children at or above 30% in 30 states, the childhood obesity epidemic shows no slowing in site… YET.

Enter First Lady Michelle Obama.

The Goal: Through nutrition education, healthy food alternatives, physical fitness and a coordinated effort between public, private and non-private sector, the challenge of childhood obesity will be solved within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight.

Action For Healthy Kids Remember the watershed moment when you first learned about the dangers of pesticides in your food or the toxic chemicals in your cleaners? Maybe it was when you learned about parabens and petrochemicals in your personal care products or bisphenol-A leaching from plastics and into your food and into your body. [...]

By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEco Living and Beauty Expert
In 2006, James and Nancy Chuda completed their labor of love: their Green Home under the “H” of the iconic Hollywood sign. Drawing from the couple’s environmental activism and Jame’s prolific career as a nationally board-certified architect specializing in the creation of non-toxic living and working environments, the Green Home is a culmination of many years of the Chuda’s dedication to learning, living and advocating for a natural, environmentally-safe and sustainable lifestyle.
However, going green didn’t mean that their classic good taste would be sacrificed; their modern design would meet green architecture.

“The sound of water is so   relaxing,” says Peter Logan of Peter Logan Designs in Tujunga California.  “And the water garden is a low maintenance, ecologically balanced system requiring no toxic chemicals.  It let’s Mother Nature do the work.” Working with nature, in all her innate balance and glory, was the spirit in which Peter [...]

By Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEcoLiving Editorial Assistant
“In donning this well-preserved classic dress, I believe the First Lady is not merely paying homage to a long-forgotten American designer. She’s accessorized this exquisite black lace cocktail dress with an understated Green brooch.”

By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor Stripped down, the twelve apostles appear very different to us than the way that we conventionally imagine them.  In her most recent and widely acclaimed show XII Apostles Artist, Getty educator and LuxEco Advocate, Zhenya Gershman humanizes each of the apostles in majestic life-size canvases.  With broad brush strokes and [...]

By Elizabeth Grossman, Author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health via by The Pump Handle “I’ve never seen anything like it,” says David Willman, who has nearly 15 years’ experience captaining supply boats that support oil rigs and [...]

By: Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEco Living. In Part I of my interview with Lisa Gautier, Founder of  Matter of Trust, she helped us understand that the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t have to depend upon clean-up efforts that only further exacerbated the environmental damage.  Hair booms, a natural [...]

In a rare look at the Deepwater Horizon rig, Kerry Sanders from The Today Show flew over the oil-soaked Gulf of Mexico.  As far as the eye could see, oil reflected the sunlight off their shiny slicks.  Shockingly, Sanders noted the noxious smell of the oil as the Coast Guard helicopter hovered 500 feet over [...]

By: Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEco Living. Walking around plush suburban America in Hazmat suits because the environment is saturated with toxic chemicals? Well, maybe we aren’t too far away from such a scenario- at least Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN think we may be closer than we realize. On June 2nd and 3rd, [...]

The trend towards low-cost “throw away” fashion has resulted in a stratospheric increase in sales.  However,  according to Ecouterre the results have not been so flattering to the environment.  Using Britain as an example of this worldwide phenomenon, approximately 74% of the 2 million tons of clothes they buy each year find their resting place [...]

Photography: Lara Kastner for Metropolis In each of our lives, we are given a unique set of gifts, challenges and even obstacles.  They say that the truly happy and successful people are those that can take even the seemingly negative aspects of their lives and find a way to alter their perspective and make them [...]

By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEcoLiving.com After months of rally efforts, raising donations and even conducting neighborhood bake sales, the Hollywood sign has finally been saved from certain doom by real estate developers and urban sprawl.  The sign will now and forever sit on top of the Hollywood hillside, with an unobstructed view, to [...]

They were thought to have been extinct since the 1980′s but the thumbnail sized Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly (also known as the El Segundo Blue Butterfly) are being brought back from the verge of extinction by the scientists from Moorpark College and a few natural phermones. The federally endangered Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly (Glaucopsyche lygdamus [...]

From the incomparable Seth Godin You rock This is deceptive. You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it’s a self-defeating goal. You can’t do it. No, but you might rock five minutes a day. Five minutes to write a [...]

Last month James Cameron was invited to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) fundraiser at FOX studios to discuss the meaning, the message and inspiration of his award winning and Oscar nominated film, “Avatar.”  After 40 minutes of selected scenes from the film, Elvis Mitchell of KCRW’s show The Treatment joined Mr. Cameron in a [...]

Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, has galvanized a community of thousands of followers in his trans-denominational movement. Beckwith’s ability to move his congregation toward a more peaceful and loving relationship with each other and our global brothers and sisters is force of nature. In a truly inspirational message to his [...]

Masura Emoto says that he thinks “music was meant to bring our vibrations back to our intrinsic state” and that before it is art, it is a tool for healing. Pretty powerful stuff! I have to say that I believe there is some truth to what he says. Have you ever felt the intensity of [...]

Did you know that: We are losing Earth’s greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. One and one-half [...]

Traveling is a look into culture, tradition and history.  Learning about Médici’s Renaissance Florence might give you a more profound appreciation of art, religious history and early finance. The pyramids and ancient structures through Central and South America give in a glimpse into an exciting and mysterious civilizations long lost. And other times, enjoying a [...]