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by  Milk Products Media

Visit the Nolan’s farm Laurel Valley Creamery online http://su.pr/1iSL3S and follow the farm on twitter @lvcreamery.

If you’d like to see this amazing short film turned into a full length documentary you can help out by clicking here. The great group at Milk Products Media have about 2 months left to raise $28,000 to turn From Grass to Cheese into a feature!  Media and films like these help build support for family run farms which we desperately need more of.  So, be sure to share this video with all your friends and family and use your dollars in the best possible way at grocery stores and buy local family owned & operated!

From Grass to Cheese is a feature documentary that chronicles the ups and downs of a family-run dairy farm in Ohio during it’s first year of cheese production. From Grass to Cheese will tell the story of Nick and Celeste Nolan, their five children, and what it’s like to start up a family farm in the age of industrial agriculture.

Animal Kingdom, Environment, Featured, Human Health, Nature, Videos »

The Cove movie can save your life and the life of your children, put it in your Netflix que today or go rent it! You’ll be amazed! Just in case you don’t see it here are the quick facts:

1. Mercury is a poison that we are not suppose to touch, yet it is injected into CHILDREN! Thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative that is contained in vaccinations.
2. In 1989 the vaccine regime started a rapid increase from 3 to 28! I’m sure you’ve heard the controversy of vaccines and autism, simple fact – yes it’s true! The #1 reason is because mercury is contained in the vaccinations. We do not have 30+ year olds with autism because they were not being injected with large amounts of mercury. That is no longer the case and now 1 in every 157 children is diagnosed with autism in the US and as high as 1 in every 80 boys. Still don’t believe me … the Amish do not adhere to the vaccine regime, the Amish do not have Autism. There has never been a scientific study of the effect Thimerosal has on humans … BAD F.D.A.! Drug companies shut down those who try to study Thimerosal before they even begin.

3. 27,000 Dolphins are slaughtered in Taiji, Japan every year!

4. The #1 reason for this slaughter is the search for show bottle nose dolphins (a.k.a. Flipper) which can sell for $150,000. The ones who don’t ‘qualify’ are inhumanely butchered and then sold for their meat at $600 per dolphin.

5. You can stop the slaughter! DO NOT swim with captured dolphins on your vacation! DO NOT go to Sea World or other dolphin aquariums!

6. Dolphin meat is not sought after and poisonous! For this reason it is falsely labeled and sold in Japan to unaware consumers. There is a media blackout in Japan that prevents the citizens from being aware.
7. The acceptable mercury limits for human consumption is 4ppm (parts per million) dolphin meat contains 2000ppm.
8. Be aware, the larger the fish you eat the more mercury ppm it contains! That’s right, typically the more expensive the fish the more poison you are consuming. Stick to the little guys or stay away from it all together.

‘BE SURE TO WATCH THE ‘MERCURY RISING’ SEGMENT IN THE SPECIAL FEATURES ON THE DVD!

Special thanks to the Oceanic Preservation Society

Animal Kingdom, Blue Ridge Mountains, Environment, Green Sustainability, Nature, Wind Power »

Our official stance – We support Wind Energy in North Carolina.

Back in July we posted NC Don’t Ban Wind Power .   There have been some opposing comments that do to their nature and misinformation we have struggled to approve.  We have approved the comments for view in hopes that the debate surrounding this issue remains open and educated even though we might strongly disagree.

We have responded to each comment and would like to share our most recent response with you.

We stand firm on the comments posted by Kiesha Jean earlier.  We believe a combination of wind and solar is the right way to go. We’re all for seeing wind turbines versus nuclear power plants and the already proven (very close to home) disaster coal plants can bring to both humans and wildlife. The new bird friendly Windspires are what prompted us to write this post, they only stand 30ft tall which is far shorter than the McMansions that pollute the ridges now. We would much rather see a surge in Windspires versus Turbines but we’re more then delighted to see either.

We do have a great love for the raptors and an even greater love for our children. A Wind Turbine will never produce harmful nuclear waste nor will they ever accidentally leak deadly radiation. A Wind Turbine will also never spill ash into rivers, give workers black lung or trap workers underground.

One out of every 50 Americans living near landfills or ponds used to store ash or sludge from coal-fired power plants has a high risk of getting cancer from drinking water contaminated with arsenic.

So, if you really want to do good … help promote Windspires and stop the ludicrous denial of just how dangerous coal and nuclear power plants are versus wind.

Art, Green Design, Green Sustainability, Nature, Uncategorized, fashion »

Artist, Dominic Wilcox creates a field of grass out of 400 eco-friendly shoes for Terra Plana, the ethical shoe company. Inspired by ecological survival, TERRA PLANA believes in a variety of non-generic products supporting ideas of sustainability: lightness, anatomic design, disassembly and durability.

www.TerraPlana.com
www.DominicWilcox.com