Pesticides and other harmful chemicals you put on your lawn are not only detrimental to the air, water, and soil (i.e. the whole flipping planet) but the health of your family and community. The pesticides you use for lawn care don’t stay on your lawn. You and your family drag them into the house on your shoes. Pets run through the lawn and spread the pesticides. And particles drift off into the neighborhood. Yay! Instead, keep it green and healthy by reducing your overall use of pesticides – in fact, many people don’t use any pesticides at all.

Here’s how to …read more

If you’re using pesticides to fight creepy crawlies you’re not only spreading harmful chemicals and pesticides around your home and family but you’re helping the bug population to become super strong. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and other sources,
“Sometimes an insect does more than develop resistance to a pesticide. It grows to depend on the pesticide. A species of bee in Brazil actually eats the pesticide DDT! Normally, a deadly dose of DDT for bees is 6 parts per million. Scientist have found that the bees in Brazil accumulate DDT in their bodies to concentrations as high as …read more

Baby steps through the office, baby steps out the door, it works! It works! All I have to do… just take one little step at a time, and I can do anything! Baby step throughout the office, Baby step throughout the office.
My Baby Steps plan is to make a small change each time I learn about a new method/product. Or, more likely, when something runs out (like shampoo), I’ll replace it with an eco-friendly method.
My first step is actually quite a big one: The Diva Cup.
The Diva Cup is similar to the Keeper – though the Keeper is no longer …read more

Detoxing makes me cringe. Not because of the hardship of attempting a full detox diet, but because the last time I detoxed – introducing soy milk into my life to replace 1% – I discovered I was allergic to soy. But this is a different kind of detoxing.
So I approached the panel discussion eager to hear from environmental experts, on detoxing your life. The panel discussion followed the screening of a film called Toxic Bust, which I posted about previously, and aimed to equip us with the knowledge to detox without breaking the bank.
Here are the TOP 5 steps you …read more

One of the benefits of SusCamp ’08 was “meeting” lots of like-minded people (I use the term meeting loosely, since most of the contacts I made were via twitter, facebook, and various blogs, rather than face-to-face chats). Through one such connection, I scored a ticket to attend Toxic Bust, a film taking part in the world’s first breast cancer film festival Breast Fest.
You may wonder why this breast cancer film is relevant to Daily Tomorrow, well here’s your answer, straight from the makers of Toxic Bust. “The film raises questions about the long term health costs associated with early childhood …read more