Sarah Jowett
I am very committed to all environmental causes and am proud to use the Chronicle's network of news sites to share my write-ups of various environmental issues, products, projects, etc... to help educate and inform those that are passionate and interested in learning more about what they can do to restore what has been lost, repair damage that has already been done and prevent future problems.
I am by no means an expert but I am serious about these causes and hope my little articles and reviews help you determine which products are worth using to prevent catastrophes that we have created by our unbridled usage of Earth's resources and our treatment of the environment at large.
It is more than just high gas prices and depleted oil reserves, it is more than just water conservation and recycling, and many people taking small measures adds up to making a difference.
I am by no means an expert but I am serious about these causes and hope my little articles and reviews help you determine which products are worth using to prevent catastrophes that we have created by our unbridled usage of Earth's resources and our treatment of the environment at large.
It is more than just high gas prices and depleted oil reserves, it is more than just water conservation and recycling, and many people taking small measures adds up to making a difference.
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Articles by Sarah Jowett
January 19, 2008
One of my favorite treats, especially in the summer, is vanilla yogurt mixed with fruit: generally frozen strawberries but fresh fruit whenever possible. I usually get the Dole frozen Whole Strawberries and they are good because, as they thaw, they generate a little sweetened juice which mixes very ...
January 18, 2008
I try to stay away from processed foods, especially "TV Dinners" (generally referred to now as "frozen dinners"), but sometimes you can't avoid it because they are so easy to make, eat and clean up; and some of them are downright delicious! I try to find the healthiest varieties, ones that don't con...
January 18, 2008
As I have said before, I am not much of an ice cream person. I am more into sherbet or popsicles than ice cream but I wanted to try the Breyers Organic, especially since I had only previously seen it in Coffee and came across the Chocolate.
Breyers started making ice cream in Philadelphia in 1866...
January 17, 2008
I'm not going to go into too much depth about ChapStick, you should already know about their products, hah, but I did peek at their site...
ChapStick is owned by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, maker of other such brands as Advil and Robitussin. Unfortunately, the Wyeth site is very corporate and had most...
December 18, 2007
Croutons are a funny thing.... were someone to give you a piece of dried and seasoned bread, you would turn it down flat. But break it into little pieces and it's all good!
While Marie Callender's is a chain of restaurants confined mostly to the Western States, save for Oklahoma and Texas, the Ma...
December 18, 2007
For those of us that don't drink, the holidays are usually celebrated with a tasty fixture of the beverage aisle: Martinelli's Sparkling Apple Cider. When I was in high school and one of my friends had a birthday, I would always bring a Martinelli's Sparkling Cider to school for us to have at lunch...
December 07, 2007
I came across these at Toys R Us and was intrigued. The package of 15 includes a mix of four fruit flavors: Pomegranate Pucker, Cheeky Lemon, Mango Tango, and Wet-Face Watermelon.
The Yummy Earth web site is rather sparse on details about the company, except that it was started by two dads who wa...
December 07, 2007
Along with lime, my other favorite "flavor" (and scent) is cranberry. Juice, candles, dried fruit, room freshener, anything, so I was eager to try this juice as it touted that it was "Wild Cranberry", but they lie! It really should be called Cranberry Apple because it's not 100% cranberry juice, o...
December 07, 2007
I love salads and I generally eat one of some sort of variety every day, either during a meal, for a meal or as a snack. I don't really like lettuce in my salads, I don't feel it's really as tasty as the "accessories" like peppers, cucumbers, croutons and all that good stuff so my salads generally ...
December 07, 2007
I found this product in the gift shop at Earthbound Farms, an organic farm, in Carmel Valley, California. You might have seen some of their products in your local produce section as they grow and distribute a variety of organic lettuces and salad greens around the country. In addition to their own ...
November 05, 2007
It's not even November and I already am the victim of a cold of the worse kind: one that includes a sore throat. I can take runny and stuffy noses, coughing and sneezing, but a sore throat, especially because I have to talk to Connor all the time, is just something I can't deal with it, it drives me...
November 05, 2007
One good thing about "reviewing" organic, natural, etc items is that there is definitely no shortage of choices! I try to choose items that "average" people might actually use or consume, not going for the $100 "organic cotton" sheets, but things you might see at your grocery store or that are worth...
November 02, 2007
At a local discount grocery store, I found a bar soap by Avalon Organics. I am rather picky about bar soap because I use it for my face (I use body wash for the rest, ha) and I don't like it to make my face too dry, even though I use Oil of Olay lotion every day. I generally use Neutrogena but I wan...
October 15, 2007
I love iced tea and it is primarily what I drink so when I saw some Sweet Leaf bottles on an end cap at the grocery store today, I paused to check them out because good processed, or mass produced, iced tea is hard to find and I always try what's out there. Then I saw that it uses organic cane sugar...
October 09, 2007
Even though I don't tend to have much juice because I am diabetic, I decided to sacrifice my health for you and try a couple different "organic" juices I recently saw in my local grocery store.
The first one I chose was Limeade ("lime flavored beverage from concentrates") by Santa Cruz Organic (S...
September 28, 2007
I have started to take more notice of the products and foods I buy: how they are made, what they are made of and the business, manufacturing and distribution practices of the company that made them, as well as of the store that sells them. It is a seemingly impossible job to tackle for every produc...
August 22, 2007
CFL's are something I have heard about, that I even have in use in some of my lamps at home because I'm "supposed" to, but I don't know their true meaning or importance. Again, I decided to search it out and share it with you!
As always, this is supposed to be a PRIMER about CFLs and not the onl...
August 20, 2007
I have always wondered what the big stink about "organic" was; what did it really mean and why should I care? To dispel the mystery, I decided to investigate the issue and share what I found with you.
While I have tried to be as complete and detailed as possible, this is a PRIMER, not the end-al...