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Dare to Go Green

Three reasons why now is the best time to go green–and one reason you might be avoiding it.  By: K.B. Keilbach

 

Smart businesswomen are seeing the demand for eco-friendly products and services in the marketplace. They are developing solutions that will benefit their bottom-line profits as well as the people in their community and the planet itself–what’s known as the “triple bottom line.” They realize the potential for growth for those who take the initiative to become market leaders, and they say that now is the best time to go green.    
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It can make you sick, destroy your sleep, raise your blood pressure, and shorten your life. Loneliness isn’t just a momentary pang—it’s a chronic emotional ache that affects up to 15 percent of us. So who are all the lonely people, and where do they all come from? Answers are finally on the way, now that loneliness is beginning to get the research attention it deserves. O reports on what one expert called “the Antarctica of the soul.”

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In 2002, Julie Powell was just an average 30-year-old New Yorker who wanted something more than a dead-end day job. She turned to a cookbook for inspiration, but it wasn’t just any cookbook.

Julie decided to cook every single recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year and chronicle the ups and downs of her attempt in a blog. The blog was a hit, and soon Julie got a book deal to write about the experience.

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Blissing Out: 10 Relaxation Techniques To Reduce Stress On-the-Spot

If your hectic lifestyle has got you down, experts say relaxation techniques can bring you back into balance — some in five minutes or less.

By Jenny Stamos Kovacs, WebMD Feature  

Is it any wonder that you can’t find a minute for relaxation? In fact, if you’re like most women, you may have even forgotten how to relax.  And while experts say that some stress is good for you — it can sharpen your senses and your mind — too much stress is bad for your mental and physical health. At the same time, relaxation can do wonders to restore balance in your life — and may even reduce some of the health risks associated with stress.

WebMD talked to the experts to learn more about relaxation — and how to attain it. What follows are 10 on-the-spot techniques you can use — any time and almost anywhere — to reduce the tension in your life.   Read more now. 

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Mantras May Help Cut Stress

“It’s personal, portable, and invisible. It’s immediately available, inexpensive, nonpharmacological, and nontoxic,” she continues. Using mantras can be a “stress-reduction technique for our modern day and age, when people say they don’t have time for stress-management techniques,” Bormann says.    Read more now.

Smart businesswomen are seeing the demand for eco-friendly products and services in the marketplace. They are developing solutions that will benefit their bottom-line profits as well as the people in their community and the planet itself–what’s known as the “triple bottom line.” They realize the potential for growth for those who take the initiative to become market leaders, and they say that now is the best time to go green.

Read now.

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