By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Prevention through education is worth more than cure In 1991, two months after we lost our only child, Colette age 5,  to a cancer we later proved could have been prevented,  Al Meyerhoff and Lawrie Mott, both senior attorney and [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World   National Chocolate Chip Day Today is National Chocolate Chip Day! It’s the perfect day to bake. But what if you can’t tolerate gluten , butter, eggs, sugar and last but certainly not least chocolate. I couldn’t resist finding a [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World You might just call it the sexiest IPO offering in this century or maybe for all time. But what is Facebook’s true face value? Insiders including some Google pundits say that its on track to become the most valuable US [...]

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 [...]

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 Last year First Lady Michelle Obama selected Healthy Child Healthy World as one of her favorite causes. [...]

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 Nancy Chuda, Founder of LuxEco Living and Healthy Child Healthy World I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand forever -Chinese proverb In 2005, when James Chuda built his third case study environmental home he envisioned   the structure would become an Earth Institute and provide an educational [...]

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 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: Nancy Chuda, co-founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World

“One need not be in California long before he feels his soul beginning to stir. The air is magnetized…the consciousness awakens …the soul must speak.” Ganna Walska, the flamboyant opera singer who wrote those words in her memoir, had not merely tired of New York. After a six-week stay in the Hollywood Hills in 1940, the 53-year-old Mrs. Walska truly believed that her destiny lay in this “sunny land” where “people are decidedly more interested in your being than in your pocket.”

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 Saying goodbye to a feathered friend We lost her yesterday. It was very strange.  A sad, sweet and funny event in our lives.   It was raining like cats and dogs. The weather gal had predicted  and she was right. [...]

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 [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Staying single may become the new conventional way to avoid the inflationary additions to planning a wedding.   When Jim and I took our vows on October 6th 1984 we had a beautiful wedding. The ceremony and reception  was held at [...]

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 LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Orchids can be orchidellic     Santa Barbara International Orchid Show And if you just watched the video clip above you”ll know why Huel Howser is so popular amongst the ladies here. They named this series of cymbidiums in his honor. [...]

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 LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Seeing Citizen Kane at The Hearst Castle was  The Screening on Steroids.”   “Let’s do it!”  replied Steve Hearst the great grandson of William Randolph Hearst when Wendy Eidson, director of the San [...]

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 Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World.   In Paris, fashion takes on new heights when it comes to the exquisite work of Alber Elbaz. For years the French couture house Lanvin had lagged behind some of the greats, Chanel and Yves St. Laurent to mention just [...]

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 [...]

A Commentary by Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World         “I have some concerns,” was Tyler Perry’s remark back at host Gayle King this morning on CBS This Morning as he teased her discerning etiquette  while she  took time to tout Perry’s performance in his [...]

By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Silence is golden as in oscar winner. You betcha! If you haven’t seen The Artist you must! One of the best films ever! Silent Movies gave birth to this nation. It was and still is a miraculous invention. The [...]

By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. My dearest friend lost her beloved companion today. Cella was an inspirational pet who was truly loved by  friends and family and the many strangers who admired her beauty and special spirit. As humans, in care of one [...]