Here are some links we liked and recommend for your Wednesday lunch break!

• How to Meditate In 10 Easy Steps – Guardian
• A Polar Bear Swims for 9 Days Straight Looking for Ice – Treehugger
• Try Imaging a World Without Cars – More Intelligent Life
• 20 Things I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years – Four Hour Workweek Blog
• Breast-Feeding Debate Closed? Brain Science Weighs In – Huffington Post and BBC

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Here are some links we liked and recommend for your Wednesday lunch break!

• 9 Surefire Ways to Sabotage Your Weight Loss – Summer Tomato
• The Key to Happiness: A Taboo for Adults? – The Huffington Post
• No Yard? Here’s How You Can Still Make and Use Compost – Planet Green
• Could we see fuel rationing by 2020? – Treehugger
• Focus on Immediate Instead of Long Term Exercise Benefits for Better Motivation – Lifehacker

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Here are some links we liked and recommend for your Wednesday lunch break!

• The mercury in fish cancels out the benefits of the omega fatty acids – Planet Green
• Ever thought of going on a sex/dating and drinking sabbatical? – The Frisky
• How five businesses were born out of personal crises – More
• Top 10 trusted sources of protein – AskMen
• The real cost of fuel – mnmlist
• How to rid your diet of foods that are filled with toxins and contribute to weight gain – MNN

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• Fashion My Designer Life by Gretchen Jones of Project Runway
• Sex 7 Misconceptions About Conception
• Food What Every Meat Eater Should Know About Humane Certifications
• Sex January’s EcoSalon Man We Love: Jonathan Franzen
• Food Foodie Underground: Cupcakes Are So Last Year
• Sex 9 Things You Don’t Need to be Happy
• Fashion Be a Fashion Locavore
• Sex Pitfalls and Prospects: Making a Case for the Office Flirt

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To help you ring in the New Year, here are some EcoSalon treasures to get you thinking about your past, present and future – because ultimately, isn’t that what this day is all about?

Happy New Year!

• Top 10 Trends We Loved (And Hated) From 2010
• Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2010
• Top 11 Hottest Topics of 2010 from EcoSalon
• A Letter to My 20 Year Old Self
• 10 Best Reasons to Turn 30
• 10 Best Reasons to Turn 40

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Here are some links we liked and recommend for your Wednesday lunch break!

• 7 Homemade spa treatments from holiday leftovers – Planet Green
• GrabGreen is a new, affordable, eco-friendly cleaning line – Alternative Consumer
• Organic sparklers and champagne to ring in the New Year – The Daily Green
• Is the new Nissan Leaf a family friendly car? – Treehugger
• Corporate America’s Latest Bullshit Ad Campaign – The Faster Times
• The key to a successful relationship is to avoid “mismatched” attachment styles – Jezebel
• 10 healthy resolutions for the New Year – Whole Living

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Editor’s Note: Thanks to you, we are feeling the love. To show our gratitude, we are profiling some of our most cherished readers who often stop by to see what we have cooking on the site. Please make them feel welcome by saying hello!

Name: Jen C
Website: SewnNatural

1. When did you first starting reading EcoSalon?

I first discovered EcoSalon about a year ago. If I reach into my slightly foggy pregnant memory, I think I discovered it through The Daily Green. I found the first articles I read very thought-provoking, something refreshing in the world of eco-centric writing and news.

2. What topics do you enjoy reading the most about on EcoSalon?

I love the recipe round-ups that are focused on a single ingredient, and the food files are some of my favorites. I find the Culture articles fresh and love how they ask a lot of questions. And an eco centric take on sex? Yes, please.

3. Would you consider yourself a very conscious individual? What about in relation to being kind to the planet?

For me, being green is a state of mind more than anything. It’s a filter through which I view what we eat as a family, what we buy, how I choose to live and what I make/create. We are committed to eating organically and locally as much as possible, and this means a lot more time procuring, growing and processing food. Instead of buying three set of sheets, we’ll use one sweatshop-free, organic set. We make a lot of our own stuff, and live more simply with less, often better things. I’m really careful about what I put on my skin, what makeup I use and what I use with my daughter. Greening my life is a process, and I try to consciously improve on it every day.

4. What’s your all time favorite products?

We love our Obasan organic mattress (they are an Ottawa company), and the eco wool felted mats we use for camping from Shepherd’s Dream. I’m always finding new products at our local Ottawa organic skin care spa, Oresta, where I discovered Pangea Organics and Afterglow Cosmetics. And my organic cap by SparkyJones, can’t live without that.

5. Tell us a bit about your blog and other websites you enjoy visiting.

I have an eco friendly, handmade collection for baby & home called SewnNatural, a small family business my mother and I started a few years ago. Among my favorite blog reads are Petite Planet, Nerd Boyfriend, Made by Joel,  and She Eats Bears.

6. You are the happiest when . . .

I’m working with my hands and discovering (often, rediscovering) life with my family, especially with my almost-four-year old daughter. Hearing her giggle uncontrollably is the most wonderful, happiness-inducing sound in the world. Reminds me of how important it is to help protect her body, air, water and food from toxins and pollution so she can grow up healthy and strong. And the urgency of conserving our planet and its resources for her children and grandchildren.

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• 5 Hot Cocktails to Cozy Up to This Holiday Season
• Foodie Underground: Celebrating Tradition
• 3 Green Holiday Dinner Conversation Starters
• Yule Logs You’ll Love
• 5 Common Arguments You Have During the Holidays

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Here are some links we liked and recommend for your Wednesday lunch break!

• Green holiday decorating and wrapping ideas – Whole Living
• Every step matters, so don’t be an eco snob – Eco-Snobbery Sucks
• Life regrets people have when they are dying – Inspiration and Chai, HT @gwenbell
• The Top 20 Cookbooks of 2010 – The Daily Green
• Volunteers save street dogs and cats in Guatemala – Tonic
• 8 Quick Tips for Boosting Your Metabolism – MNN

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• 10 Reasons Not to Turn Our Backs on Stem Cell Research
• How to Save the World in One Step
• The Green Plate: Eating Brooklyn – Top Picks from Locals
• What the Male Midlife Crisis Looks Like in 2010
• Baby Wearing: Do You Sling?
• Will Gender Stereotypes Ever Die?

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