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Archive for January, 2009

Skin Care in the Raw!

Photo: from Livia Skin Care homepage
Raw and organic? Now you can do more than eat that. You can smear “raw and organic” on your face. A product developed in Salt Lake City, Utah is now available in Canada: Livia Skin Care.
Thanks to Celia Milne of Metro News for the head’ up about this new organic skin [...]

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Bill C-51 Update!

[For more information or registration, see HANS.]

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Photo: the Jane Goodall chocolate bar from Theo Chocolate
Money may not “grow on trees,” but Theo Chocolate does! What’s Theo Chocolate? For starters, it’s the ONLY CHOCOLATE FACTORY in the United States! AND this factory is organic and fair trade focused.
Here’s an excerpt from the Theo Chocolate website:
“We follow our passion for excellence to bring you [...]

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Organics @ Home

Photo: Organics@Home ORGANIC delivery service, brochure cover
This brochure arrived in the mail in the same envelope as a bank statement earlier this month. Advertising OTHER THAN bank offerings coming in the mail with statements?! How weird is that? Things are worse than I thought for the banking industry in this “economic downturn”!
All the same, an ORGANIC delivery service is [...]

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Organic Food Regulations

Photo: in store “certified organic food” sign
What is ORGANIC food, certified or otherwise? What can stores claim? Who regulates that? All those questions and more are answered on the Canadian Food Standards Agency website under this heading:  Organic Food.
Here are some of the questions answered on the website:
How is organic food production regulated?
Who controls the standards for organic food [...]

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