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Queen Be(yoncé) Launches Vegan Meal Delivery Service

Beyoncé is bringing her diet regime to you through her new company, 22 Days Nutrition, and has launched her Vegan Meal Home Delivery Service. This service features three different plan types to choose from and all will be 100% plant based, organic, non-GMO and gluten/soy/dairy free. After her trainer, Marco Borges, challenged Beyoncé and hubby Jay Z to a 22 day vegan nutrition program in 2013, many people have been asking how they can take the challenge too. The result was a new venture called 22 Days Nutrition and it is becoming a hot commodity for anyone who wants to cleanse and revitalize their body so they can shape up like the stars. After seeing her sculpted figure in the ethereal dress Queen Bey showcased at the Grammys you can’t help but be convinced she is doing something right! As Marco, now her business partner as well as her trainer, says; “The moment you take control of your diet is the moment you take control of what you look and feel like.” Check out …

How to Be an Eco-friendly Beauty

From GreenGuide Being beautiful doesn’t have to be cruel to the environment. Apparently, there are a lot of women who don’t seem to care with the environment and its inhabitants as they continue to splurge on fashionable items that are either made of fur or animal skin, which are all prohibited because of the cruelty that most fur and animal skin manufacturers do to the animals. Despite PETA’s ongoing rage on such cruelty, fashion junkies never seem to give a second thought on it. On the one hand, some women love to have great skin to look beautiful, making use of products that contain microbeads and toxic chemicals that only provide temporary glow, but permanent damage to both their skin and the environment. These instances are all heartbreaking. If all women will practice how to become an eco-friendly chic, staying beautiful will surely be easy since the environment will not be as polluted as it is today. The very first thing that you should consider when wanting to loo…

Your Guide to Obtaining Fresh, Organic Produce in The Middle of Winter

Don’t you love the endless array and options of fruits and vegetables you get during the summertime? It’s like a free for all and anything we want we can grab for the taking. As lovely as it is to enjoy copious amounts of veggies and fruits in the summer it tends to get a little tougher for us in the winter months. It’s especially harder to find organic and on top of that it’s more expensive. Here are a few tips for obtaining organic produce during the winter time. 1. Know when to buy organic Every fruit and vegetable that you buy does not need to be organic. There are certain fruits and vegetables that have the highest pesticide residues. These are the ones you need to worry about. They call these “The Dirty Dozen.” They also put out a list called “The Clean 15” which includes items that have very low levels of pesticide residue. These items are avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, cabbage, onions, sweet peas, asparagus, mangoes, papayas, kiwi, eggplant, grapefruit, cant…

9 Alternatives to Candy for Trick-or-Treaters

So, Halloween is the holiday most known for it’s spooky amounts of candy. It starts out as a sweet little, “we’ll buy a bag to hand out to the disguised kids knocking on our door”; but then develops growing more horrific by the minute. “Okay, I’ll take one for myself.” “Let’s get an extra bag for us”. “Wow! I haven’t seen this candy since last year! Let’s get some!” From innocence to guiltiness, one by one we consume more and more candy; the result? – feeling terrible the following day, your face breaks out like a leprous zombie, and the creepy monster that roared the night before is feeling shameful and disappointed in itself. To appease the candy vampire within, try serving one of these alternatives for yourself and/or the costumed minions rapping on your door. 1) Fruit Apples, Bananas, & Oranges all make great snacks and are sturdy enough to survive the night in a trick-or-treaters bag. 2) Veggies Chopped celery with peanut butter and raisin…

Fun Fall Festivities for the Greenie at Heart

Fall is a great time of the year to get outside and enjoy all our planet has to offer. With the weather beginning to cool down, leaves starting to change colors, and the holidays coming soon, this is a wonderful season to bond with the family and enjoy some fun fall festivities. Green Businesses has a few favorites we love to do every year. Maybe you do too? Apple Picking Apple picking may be available all year round, but autumn just so happens to be the most festive time of the year to indulge in such a fun activity. You may have to drive a distance to get to your destination, but it is well worth the drive. The human soul seems to regenerate as you get out of that car and find yourself surrounded by trees and mountains and nature. It is so satisfying to walk through the fields of trees, picking and choosing which apple you would like to enjoy, twisting the select few until they snap off the branch, and later enjoying a crisp and delectable snack. Not to mention, these a…

California Officially Joins the War on Plastic Bags

Great news for the environment occurred last night, when CA government voted to ban single-use plastic bags across the state. “The bill, SB 270, will phase out single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and pharmacies beginning July 2015, and in convenience stores one year later, and create a mandatory minimum ten-cent fee for recycled paper, reusable plastic and compostable bags” states Stephanie Spear, author at EcoWatch, who wrote California Bans Plastic Bags. If the already agreed upon bill is signed by the CA governor, California will be the first state to ban these environmentally un-friendly products.

“More than 120 California local governments have already banned single-use plastic bags with more than 1 in 3 Californians already living somewhere with a plastic bag ban in place, in an effort to drive consumers towards sustainable behavior change,” affirms Spear. With such a large amount of the population already embracing the plastic ban bag, this measure will …