Green Health

This is a personal journey to take back green living. I need a place to store all the links I have been finding. I needed a place to share what I am learning. Maybe it will help someone else too.

I have always had in interest in finding alternative ways to fuel cars and to burn a light bulb. I am a product of the 1970's. As a child I remember the oil crisis. I remember my father yelling at us to turn the lights off in the room if we weren't in it. I would doodle Jetsons type vehicles and would dream of ways that they could run on water. My reasoning was that water seemed abundant between the Great Lakes and the oceans. Why not? I would dream of putting solar panels on every home, apartment building, factory, and school building.

I have done a great deal of internet research on houses that use the natural energy (sun) to heat based on how they are constructed. I have been learning about Building the Green Economy and how to look for local solutions to world problems. I have been learning about whole and organic foods.

I have opted for trying to eliminate certain foods from my diet to begin my journey. I am eliminating any foods or beverages with artificial sweeteners, such as sucralose (aka Splenda®), aspartame (aka NutraSweet® or Equal®). I have also done a great deal of reading lately that makes me question the wide-spread use of high fructose corn syrup in the U.S. This elimination process is a great deal more difficult I find because it's in everything from bread to milk (in some cases)!

Most cases I will be listing links to other pages that have the information you can find. I do not want to reinvent the wheel. I just wanted to have a place where I can refer back and find all the glorious references I find and maybe share my journey along the way.