Creating a Website for Your Holistic Practice or Business
By Donna M. Uncapher, President Astraea Marketing Group (View Profile)

Why is it so critical to create a website for your business these days?  A web site for your holistic practice or business can help you educate and retain clients. In this article, we’ll provide advice, so you can start building your own web site. Find out what you should consider before you start, and get tips to improve your current site if you already have one. <<Read More.

Food serves many functions beyond physical nourishment. When we are spiritually and emotionally bereft, it serves to fill the void at the bottom of our soul. While this may satisfy us for a while, it is simply a band-aid solution, ultimately causing more harm than good.  <<Read More
 

This is a great story!  Take a few minutes and read this recent article from the New York Times. It’s a feature about a powerful victory where one man’s vision and tenacity overcame major challenges from regional  energy “giants” by utilizing town hall meetings and radio interviews—and popular opinion in favor of the Bluewater Wind project eventually won out.  When a study by a University of Delaware professor showed that Delaware’s coastal winds were capable of producing a year-round average output of over 5200 megawatts, or four times the average electrical consumption of the entire state, wind entrepreneur Peter Mandelstram decided this was the project he wanted to take on.  Read the NY Times Article.

Buy Fresh Buy Local

There’s a great new website (beta version but it worked perfectly when we tested it) for the Pennsylvania Buy Fresh Buy Local home. Easy to navigate, locations are broken down by region and classified as farms, farmers markets, restaurants, wineries & retail stores. Spend a few minutes and find out everything that’s close to you. We found plenty of resources that are nearby but that we didn’t know about—but we’ll be scheduling a visit to several now!

Highly Recommended: A Powerful 8 Minute Video About Mercury
You need to check this out!

Created by the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology

Looking for a biological/holistic dentist?  Read the profiles below and learn more about these two Natural Lifestyle Members:

Owen Allison, DMD (View Profile)
Donald Robbins, DMD (View Profile)

Eco-Fare & KarmaFest
Sunday, September 28, 10AM-7PM
Kerr Park, Pennsylvania & Wallace Avenues, Downingtown, PA
www.KarmaFest.com

Now in beautiful Chester County, Pennsylvania along the Brandywine Creek, this is a festival that’s fun, educational and enlightening.   KarmaFest is partnering with EcoFare, a new festival promoting renewable energy, sustainability issues, and green living, including a local farmers market.  Free lectures, yoga instruction and demonstrations throughout the day.  Check out the special events on the website.  Live music during the day and drumming circles in the evening.  For additional cost, find massage, reiki, psychic readings, reflexology, DNA activation, holistic products, great food and cool arts & crafts.  Enjoy a day with friends—new and old—there are more of us out there than you know!  <<Find Out More

12^th Annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival
Saturday, September 27, Lee Park, Charlottesville, VA

You don't have to be a vegetarian to have fun at the largest vegetarian/animal welfare/sustainability/ecology festival on the east coast. Voted one of the top two outdoor events in Charlottesville with 6,000-8,000 visitors annually. Offering a wide variety of vegetarian and vegan food & beverages, free samples, street performers, body art, music, dog & cat adoption fair, kids' activities, arts & crafts. 100 booths/vendors featuring info/demonstrations on alternative healthcare, ecology, healthy living, fitness, peace & justice, animal rights & rescue, transportation, housing, financial management, and more. <<Find Out More

Natural Building Seminar Day
Saturday, September 27
 Amicus Green Building Center, Kensington, MD

Join green building and policy experts for a day long series of seminars, including American Clay Plaster Workshop, Growing Green Building Policy, Intro to Natural Building, and a hands on Strawbale Workshop. Everyone is welcome.  Come and explore all that’s available at Amicus Green, a green building center and hardware store where everything is “green.” Lots of great info on their website too.  <<Find Out More

Healthy Chocolate Soufflé
(Low Carb, Low Glycemic)

Easy to make, 100% healthy, all-natural and sinfully good.  

Time Start to Finish: 35 minutes     Serves: 4 

Benefits: High protein, excellent source of selenium, low glycemic, won’t spike blood sugar levels

Nutrition Info: 150 calories, 8 grams protein, 12 grams fat, 2 grams fiber, 6 carbohydrates

Ingredients

• 4 large organic eggs
• 1/2 cup organic milk
• 2 Tbsp organic butter
• 4 Tbsp organic cocoa
• 4 Tbsp organic erythritol* 

Preheat oven to 350°F. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. Add 2 Tbsp. erythritol to butter and stir to dissolve. Continue stirring butter and erythritol and incorporate cocoa. Add milk and turn heat to medium while whisking. Once fully mixed, remove from heat and allow to cool. Separate eggs. In an small bowl, beat egg whites with remaining erythritol on high speed until soft peaks form. Whisk egg yolks into cooled cocoa mixture (NOTE: if the chocolate mixture is too hot, you will have scrambled eggs, not soufflé). Fold cocoa mixture gently into egg white mixture. Spoon into 4 small (7 oz) ramekins and bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

*You can find organic erythritol at your local health food store, or sometimes in the baking section of regular grocery stores.  It is an extremely low glycemic but healthy,good tasting, low calorie, natural sugar alcohol with minimal effect on blood sugar. Great in most recipes to replace sugar.