Topic: News

Skin care and bath products made of all natural ingredients are a quickly growing trend in the general beauty industry.

The beauty industry world wide is seeing a large and growing demand for skin care and bath products made with all natural, and in some cases organic ingredients. The trend is growing quickly and encompasses all categories of consumer and professional beauty products. As knowledge and education among consumers increases about what makes a skin care product "natural" or "organic," many retailers are finding their clients demanding more of these products instead of the traditional cosmetics.

Los Angeles hypnotherapist Stephanie Voss depends on both cell-phones and freeways. Here's why this expert on the limits of the conscious mind thinks you should focus on one at a time.

As of July 1st, 2008, California drivers may be ticketed for driving while holding a telephone to their ear and talking. There's a lot of controversy about the new law. Some people note that it doesn't forbid more complicated tasks that involve taking at least one eye off the road as well as a hand: dialing and text messaging, for example. They think the law should go further.

While organic branding is seen my many businesses as a way to up the price tag, some organic retailers are marketing to and pricing for us working stiffs.

Today, many products including food, clothing, and furniture, are made in a sustainable and organic way. However, not all of these products are accessible and affordable to the average American. Prohibitively priced and largely limited to exclusive boutiques, organic products have been stereotyped as luxuries.

Speech by Sylvia Boorstein addresses the importance of spiritual growth and a lifetime of community service.

Noted Buddhist teacher, author and psychotherapist Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, addressed the 2008 graduates of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) on Saturday, June 14 at the Bayside Performing Arts Center in San Mateo, California. Her speech, "Connecting to the World as the Cause of Happiness," addressed the importance of spiritual growth and a life of community service.

Purchase of Plum Creek land in Montana will protect working forests, promote public access, protect wildlife habitat and continue sustainable forestry.

On Monday, The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land announced they have reached agreement to purchase approximately 320,000 acres of western Montana forestland from Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE:PCL) for $510 million.

The United States Ambassadors of International Happiness Day, Jeanna Gabellini and Eva Gregory, and the Happiness Vanguard Panel are inviting everyone in the world to celebrate happiness on International Happiness Day, July 10 2008. Their goal is to inspire over one million people worldwide to intentionally celebrate happiness on this one day.

Happiness is a choice that is available to everyone. This is the message of International Happiness Day, which takes place on July 10, 2008. Initiated by Liberto Pereda Romera of Barcelona, Spain, International Happiness Day is a day in which people from all over the world intentionally choose to be happy while inspiring the happiness of others through simple acts of kindness, expressions of joy, gratitude, optimism, and forgiveness. Jeanna Gabellini and Eva Gregory - Master Law of Attraction Coaches and the U.S. Ambassadors of International Happiness Day - have joined forces with six other happiness experts and coaches in order to spread the word about International Happiness Day and inspire at least one million people worldwide to celebrate happiness on July 10, 2008.

If you or someone you love suffers from mild to moderate depression, there may be a completely natural way to treat it, says Denise Coates, author of the new book, "Feel it Real!" Coates claims this method of curing depression is totally safe with no side effects and is completely free of charge.

On her website, www.denisecoates.com, Denise Coates provides eight tips a person with mild depression can follow to cure themselves naturally.

Gay and transgender families and allies reflect on six Sundays spent at America's most influential churches. Their journey, titled the American Family Outing, initiated dialogue with a new generation of evangelical leaders.

On Father's Day 2008, a group of LGBT and straight-ally families attended services at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. The next day, a smaller group of about 8 families met with pastors and other staff of the influential mega-church for lunch and an emotional conversation about faith, family, and the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the church.

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American Family Outing clergy leader Jay Bakker officiates at the California wedding of Paige Schilt and Katy Koonce, two moms who participated in the 6-week outreach to mega-churches.

The growing body of evidence that marijuana may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in "The Journal of Pain" reporting that patients with nerve pain showed reduced pain intensity from smoking marijuana.

The growing body of evidence that marijuana (cannabis) may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in The Journal of Pain, reporting that patients with nerve pain showed reduced pain intensity from smoking marijuana.

A major review by University of Adelaide researchers shows that the world is losing the battle over tropical habitat loss with potentially disastrous implications for biodiversity and human well-being.

Published online Wednesday in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a major review shows that the world is losing the battle over tropical habitat loss with potentially disastrous implications for biodiversity and human well-being. The review, by University of Adelaide (Australia) researchers, concludes we are “on a trajectory towards disaster” and calls for an immediate global, multi-pronged conservation approach to avert the worst outcomes.