Bill Gates Drinks Distilled Feces Waste
Omniprocessor Creates Drinkable Water and Electricity From Human Waste!
Bill Gates took time off last year to work with the philanthropic organization he founded with his wife. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a project that is creating a safe affordable solution for countries struggling with problematic sanitation issues. This endeavor has resulted in a machine called the Janicki Omniprocessor, which turns […]
Dispelling 7 Myths About The Vagina
Valentine’s Day, the holiday celebrating love is upon us. What better time for us to consider and speak on behalf of the most taboo part of the female anatomy… In 1994 playwright and women’s activist Eve Ensler brought issues about women’s sexuality, abuse, and stigmas about… you guessed it, our vaginas, out of the shadows […]
How To Reduce Household Waste
Reducing waste at home is simple with some small lifestyle changes!
Let us offer some user-friendly suggestions on how to reduce household waste. There are so many easy things you can do and once you start you’ll be asking why such simple habits are not the norm for everyone. Get ready to generate some positive change on behalf of our planet and all the life it […]
Eating Together: a Family Anchor
Time To Bring Back The Family Dinner Table
Rushing between errands, chores, appointments, long work hours, and time lost in front of various screens – all these are distancing us from the times (not so long ago) when families sat down each day around the dinner table for an hour of focused conversation and eating together. With all the running around modern families […]
What is a Resource-Based Economy?
New Ideas and Solutions For Real Change
People are always talking about what’s wrong with our society. Many, feeling helpless and overwhelmed by the scope of it all ignore what’s wrong preferring to stick their heads in the sand claiming that they are just trying to stay positive. Either way, there is very little talk about solutions and ideas to enact real […]
Gift Giving For the Holidays With a Conscience
Every year I become more aware of the dark side of the mainstream American holiday gift giving traditions. Mainly by the incredible amounts of unnecessary waste that are generated by packaging and gift wrapping. But why would manufacturers change their wasteful ways unless consumers demand it? The only way to enact change from the suppliers […]
Get Your Kids Off the Coach and Get Them Moving!
How to Break the Couch Potato Habit
Our kids today are not in shape! Long periods sitting in front of screens, fear for their safety that causes parents to drive them everywhere, and their lack of spending time outside after school hours. All this adds up to an epidemic of couch potatoes and lazy habits for which we are all to blame. […]
Woolymama: Transforming Wool Into Wearable Art
U.P. ARTIST CREATES COUTURE DRESSES WITH NUNO WOOL Marquette, MI – No longer a vision of awkward knitted sweaters from your grandparents time, wool is making a comeback in new and wonderful ways. Combining modern fibers and techniques people are redesigning wool products into sustainable wearable clothing from head to toe. Tucked away within the […]
Vierling Brews Up The Classics
MARQUETTE'S FIRST MICRO-BREWERY SERVES SOME OF THE CITY'S FINEST CRAFT BEERS
Marquette, MI – Micro-brewing in the city of Marquette, all begins with the Vierling Restaurant and Marquette Harbor Brewery in the heart of the downtown district. Over the years they have developed local fame and esteem for excellent beers brewed on-site and equally delicious dining. The Vierling was the first in town to jump on-board […]
“Chicago” Theatre Review
"CHICAGO" CAST RAZZLE DAZZLES ONSTAGE AT FOREST ROBERTS THEATRE NOVEMBER 19TH - 22ND!
By Denise Clark The Forest Roberts Theatre brings the well known, and much loved musical “Chicago,” to their main stage this week. If by chance you agree with Defense Attorney Billy Flynn’s assertion that “murder is a form of entertainment,” then you will not want to miss this fairly extravagant production. Direction is by Ansley […]