Ok, so maybe “cure-it-all” is stretching it a bit, but did you know that honey is not only a fantastic food that tastes great but is also a natural healer? If you have honey in your pantry, you already have one of nature’s best medicines. Honey has healing properties that are antimicrobial, antibacterial, and antiseptic, [...]
They may look like picnic tables, but these aren’t your ordinary run-of-the-mill wood tables sold at your local home store. Maryville College in Tennessee has become the latest college campus to install “Solar Doks”, off-grid solar powered picnic tables made from recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and equipped with three 45-watt solar panels per side and [...]
Are you ever astounded by the amount of trash littering the roads near you? It never – and I do mean never – ceases to amaze me that we live with fellow humans who deem it A-OK to toss trash out their car windows. On the highway, in the neighborhood, by a school, or parked [...]
This giveaway has ended. Today marks 7 years since I started publishing The Good Human; it’s amazing how time flies. After nearly 2,500 posts, 5 million visitors, and more web hosting and database issues than I care to remember, I still wouldn’t change a thing. So far it’s been a fun ride and I hope [...]
Sherry Medina has done something most of us wish we could do; she blew the whistle on Big Ag’s “liberal and unrestricted application of hazardous chemicals in poultry processing.” Sick and tired of Monsanto and the Koch brothers? Me too. Thankfully, a new app for iPhone and Android lets you scan product barcodes and trace [...]
Everyone needs a good pair of shades, whether to look your coolest or to protect those peepers from sun damage. But what kind you buy and where you buy them from can be the difference between having to replace them every few months or keeping them for years and years. Most sunglasses are made (very) [...]
And we wonder why GMO foods and seeds are becoming the de facto standards on farms across the United States… On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto in the Bowman v. Monsanto case, filed against 75 year old farmer Vernon Bowman from Indiana. Monsanto sued over supposed violations of a patent [...]
