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What are your Halloween treat purchases funding? Who are they supporting? What kind of world is it creating? Consider everything when buying your treats and you will be embracing #EmpathyEconomics and enjoying and sharing amazing cookies and chocolate! Proud to know and support @chocosoltraders and @newmooncookies ... two local businesses determined to make Halloween happier, in Covid times and all of the time! Brussel sprouts shown are not included. #trickortreat
There is power in believing you can improve. It’s time to discover your #WellnessIntelligence.
"The world doesn’t need another business school. It needs a new school of thought.”
Support ‘the independents’...remember that every dollar you spend and everything you do matters...it really matters. Embrace #EmpathyEconomics
You can. 💫
It is the people in our lives that colour our world and make our hearts feel happy and safe. Not just the ones we live with, but our friends, our clients, our colleagues ... these pandemic days have us missing wrapping our arms around each other, laughing and sharing in person, but we can still continuously show gratitude to and appreciation for those good humans we “share” our days with...and remind each other how fortunate we are to have these connections.
"When we are involved in creativity, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” -
You can either focus on your challenges and fears or you can focus on what is keeping you together. We always have choices, we simply need to make decisions!
We appreciate Anna Lappe, founder and director of @realfoodmedia, sharing how she finds the courage to speak up and speak out:
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“ I remember getting ready for one of my first public talks and being terrified. I was talking with my friend Anuradha Mittal, who heads the @oaklandinstitute, and confessing my fears. She said, well, do you feel like you have something to say that you want people to hear? ‘Of course,’ was my quick and easy answer. ‘Then, focus on that,’ she said. It doesn’t matter if you’re nervous or scared: It’s not about you, it’s about the message. She was right. And every time I have gotten butterflies since then, I think of her wise words.”
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This is an excerpt from our conversation with Anna, part of our series, #InterviewsWithMosquitos, found on our unblog at bordencom.com. Real Food Media is a women-led organization that uses a wide range of communications tools for food system transformation. If you haven’t watched/listened to Anna’s @ted Talk called “The Empathy of Food”, we highly recommend you carve the minutes out to look it up and pass it on too!

Clean Living Books

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We have to know better, so we can live better, and these books are the best place to begin.


SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK by Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie No mother sets out to buy their newborn a bottle with BPA, serve chemical laden fish for dinner, or send their child to school with a lunchbox with lead in the lining. The brilliance of Slow Death by Rubber Duck is not simply that Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie experiment on themselves to show us all how everyday toxins impact our well being, it’s that they are able to deliver solutions and a hopeful message.


TOXIN TOXOUT by Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith A great read full of valuable information to help us get harmful chemicals out of our bodies and our world.


THE ALPHABET OF AVOIDANCE by Lisa Borden My own book! A fun, inspiring and perspective-changing read that not only identifies what we should be avoiding in order to live healthier lives, but also includes simple solutions to immediately replace the ‘bad’ with something better…or even, nothing at all. The Alphabet of Avoidance will change your perspective. It will make you more informed. It will convince you to get rid of bad habits. It will inspire you to develop new habits. It will give you the resources to make the changes easily.


PLANET HOME by ALEXANDRA ZISSU For all you need to know about keeping your home clean without chemicals, I personally trust Alexandra Zissu who put it all into this one incredible book. It leads you through each room of the house with straightforward advice, from improving air quality in your bedroom to avoiding mildew in the bathroom, from sourcing local or organic food to safely laundering your clothes.

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