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Fish Fight: Update on the Battle to Save the Bluefin
Hope may be on the horizon for the endangered bluefin tuna as a worldwide ban on trade gains momentum. A number of countries including France, Italy and Australia are considering or implementing bans...
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Volunteer Journal #67 –Take a Shower with PETA
Freezing for Furry Friends Ladies and Gentleman, the following is an account of my weirdest volunteer activity as TheGoodMuse- yet. I had never volunteered with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment...
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Hugh’s Fish Fight
Hugh Fighting Fish Between 40 to 60 percent of the fish that are caught in the North Sea are thrown back dead. In 2011 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall went on a mission to find out why and ended up...
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America’s Fat Threatens The World
Yet another report confirms what most of the world suspected – Americans’ fat bottoms will be the eventual downfall of humanity. More precisely, if the rest of the world follows the American trend...
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Volunteer Journal #73 (UK) – Conservation Volunteers
Playing in the Mud Not all volunteering can be as glamorous as cleaning snake cages. No, sometimes you have to get dirty. That’s what I set out to do during my stay in London, a place renowned for...
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Green Bronx Machine: Fighting Poverty
Steven Ritz and Students Stephen Ritz noticed the kids in his class were getting heavier and heavier. Three generations had pass through his Bronx classroom; obesity and diabetes were on the rise. He...
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Volunteer Journal #78 –Farmers Market Gleaning
Mary & Me Hanging with our collected fruits & veggies Americans throw away 165 billion dollars worth of food a year! What if we could re-route that food to the hungry, or starving. Food Forward...
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The Joy of Raw Cuisine with Chef Gum
Raw/Vegan Chef Kirsten Gum Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of seeing raw/vegan chef Kirsten Gum work her magic at the Gourmandise School of Sweet’s and Savories in Santa Monica, CA. She made a...
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Bait and Switch: The Harmful Mislabeling of Fish
Gross. Just Gross. If the environmental consequences weren’t enough reason to swear off fish a newly released study by OCEANA found that seafood fraud (the mislabeling of fish) is wide spread. Of...
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Horses to be Slaughtered in the US for Meat
The U.S.D.A. (United States Department of Agriculture) is moving toward approving a horsemeat slaughterhouse in New Mexico within the next two months. This will be the first time equine meat...
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Proud to be Cruelty Free
I would venture a guess that the majority of human beings want to use cruelty free cosmetic/beauty products. I don’t think people walk around saying, “I would like my perfume to be worn by a rat first...
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My Interview with “Today’s Leading Women”
Hello good people of Gotham! I did an interview with “Today’s Leading Women” Podcast. Host Marie Grace Berg was very thorough. We talked about everything from my favorite business books, to cartoon...
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