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Extinction is forever – Orangutans need our help!

September 1, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

Trilogy donating proceeds of Certified Organic Rosehip Oil sales to Save the Orangutans… We share 97% of our DNA with orangutans, but they are rapidly heading towards extinction due to habitat destruction. Trilogy’s ongoing campaign to help endangered orangutans in South East Asia was launched last year and has received enormous public support. In 2009 [...]

Living Nature – Passionate about nature

August 30, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

Interview with Jody Bews-Hair, Customer Solutions Manager at Living Nature Tell us a bit about your time and role with Living Nature? I’ve been with Living Nature a bit over 6 years, after my husband and I left Auckland and ran away to the countryside of Kerikeri. I joined as National Sales Manager, and since [...]

Working with Nature to Reduce Incidences of Cancer

August 28, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

Introducing The President’s Cancer Panel Report Conventional medicine has come a long way over the last ten to fifteen years; in faster diagnosis and more efficient treatments, meaning that the number of people surviving the disease has increased greatly.  However,  we could all do a lot more to help prevent the disease, in terms of [...]

Healing the Mind and Body Naturally With Aromatherapy

August 26, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

History of Aromatherapy The benefits of natural healing with essential oils have been known for over one thousand years. Hippocrates, that famous “father of medicine,” used a process called fumigation for its medicinal and therapeutic benefits. The Greeks and Romans recognized the healing properties of plants and that knowledge and familiarity was passed on through [...]

Fight Everyday Stress with Blackmores

August 16, 2010 by EGL shopping guide · Leave a Comment 

Introducing Blackmores Everyday Stress Formula™ According to a recent Blackmores Australia survey*, 73 per cent of those surveyed are concerned about their stress levels. The survey found that money is the number one issue that causes us stress in everyday life, followed by family, health issues, work matters and not enough time, struggling to get [...]

All the Basics on How to Dry Your Own Herbs

August 14, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

How to dry herbs… Enjoy the full flavor of homegrown herbs all year long by drying your favorite varieties. With the right conditions and a little patience you can easily have an ample supply of herbs. Add them to your gourmet recipes, use them for natural fragrances and display the beautiful shapes as unique green [...]

Swimming Cities – A Floating Carnival

August 9, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

Swimming Cities is a flotilla of art that is artistically welded, sculpted, nailed and painted by river gypsy artists. Brooklyn based street artist SWOON created the original concept. Inspired by Venice, the intention for the project was set out into the common consciousness where it attracted a tribe of musicians, writers, carpenters, performers and like [...]

Top 10 Tips for Growing Herbs Indoors and Out

August 6, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

Herbs are super plants and enhance your garden, menu and home with full flavors and aromas. They’re also generally simple to grow with some attention to their care and these herb-focused tips. 1. Space Can Be Flexible Herbs can be grown well in expansive gardens or tucked in your windowsill. Many gardeners enjoy doing both! [...]

Green Travel is Easier Than You Think

August 5, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

4 Green Travel Tips:~ The world is truly an incredible place. To see and experience what our planet has to offer is something every person should aim to do. Thanks to a growing concern for preservation and conservation we can travel across the globe and still be green, loving the planet while we visit hidden [...]

Finding Light at the end of the Garbage Pile

July 30, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

Stuart Haygarth, lighting designer, artist and garbage man, sees the beauty in objects lost, found, discarded, and spat out of the oceans. He gathers them all, the unwashed, the unclaimed, and the unwanted. He sees the lives that have been lived, the bottles drunk and discarded by the drinkers. The glasses lost and never found [...]

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