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Organicpicks was created when two women, who used to live off of work adrenaline, take out dinners and Grande Triple Mochas became MOTHERS and began to reconsider what was truly important to them and to their families. It was not a temporal catharsis but a gradual change in mindset and lifestyle.
The Organicpicks Blog is a forum for the two Cindys to share their green ideas, practices, reviews and opinions (or rants), all in hopes of making the world a better place for their children. As the blog continues to grow, the Cindys sometimes share the eco-friendly soapbox with other like-minded friends.
THE PEANUT GALLERY
- CindyW used to work in the corporate world while dreaming about creating a business that would speak to her passion for environmental conservation. She feels incredibly lucky being able to combine her personal and business interests in OrganicPicks. She is trying to make her life greener one small step at a time, from biking to the post office, buying only credible organic milk for her daughters, to bringing her own mug to coffee shops. Cindy lives in the bay area with her family.
- CindyC is a Bay Area native who returned to the Peninsula after braving several seasons of record snow and heat in East Coast. After many years of advising clients on strategic business issues, she decided to embark on the OrganicPicks venture to use her experience to contribute to her community and still make time for the PTA. Her inspiration for leading a healthy and balanced life, one day at a time, is her three year old daughter.
- Michelle Stern owns What’s Cooking, a business that offers cooking classes and gifts to children of all ages. Don’t miss What’s Cooking Weekly, an online menu subscription service for families that offers recipes, grocery lists, nutrition information and tips on getting your kids into the kitchen for 5 healthy, seasonal and simple meals every week!
- Charles S loves all things with wheels. A car guy since an early age, he was able to tell the difference between a Firebird and a Camaro while most kids were on tricycles. Today, he combines his passion for driving with social responsibility to bring you the latest news and trends in sustainable transportation, without losing sight of the fun of the drive.
- Sean used to be a lucky outdoors guy who spent virtually every weekend hiking, camping, rock-climbing, white-water rafting, and many others. And he loves gear to the point it is hard to know whether he buys gear to go outside or he goes outside so he can collect gear. He insists that the former is true, “being in nature so much almost necessitates me to be an environmentalist.” These days, with two small children in tow, he still tries to get out there as much as he can. And he wants to make sure that what he appreciates now will be there for his children.
- Helen lives, works, and raises children in UK. She has a cool, collected, and sarcastic way about her and her writing we cannot even begin to imitate. Living green is just a way of life, not a slogan to her. In her spare time, she drags her husband and young toddlers out for nature walks, rain or shine, mostly rain lately.
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Hi there,
I thought you may be interested in this recent article I wrote.
It’s titled “Now Veggies are as Cool as Cheetos” [Can we get our kids to eat healthier food, be environmentally friendly, while at the same time still be the ‘cool’?]
Link: http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10/now-veggies-are.html
For your convenience I have copied the article below.
All the best
Reuben Miller
www.reubenmiller.typepad.com
info@reubenmiller.com
The Stanford University study had kids taste food in McDonald packaging and unmarked packaging and asked which they preferred. The kids preferred the McDonald packaged food not realizing that they went for it because they were conditioned to believe “it must taste good.”
You can be negative about the effects of advertising and packaging, but I think if you apply the lesson learned from the study noted above, you’ll find that you can use this information positively.
After being inspired by the Stanford University study on McDonald’s packaging effect on kids, I came up with an idea to get kids to eat their veggies as enthusiastically as ’snack’. If zip-seal bags would be pre-printed with cool graphics like those on national brand snack packaging (which kids love), then they might be more inclined to take, display and eat their healthy snacks in school with zest.
Well, Mobi has already created this product! They make a great array of appealing sandwich bags, pre-printed with various designs that can even give cut-up celery sticks a zap of show-off cool factor.
Mobi’s bags would be perfect for influencing kids to see healthy snacks as the ‘cool thing’.
As an added bonus, these bags are environmentally friendly. The materials used to make them are recycled and recyclable. Furthermore in 2008 the company plans to use strictly biodegradable films in their products.
In addition to the environment, they are also passionate about helping endangered species and global aid.
Hi Cindy,
I noticed that you share our passion for sustainable living so I thought that you might be interested in learning about our new website, OrganicStyle.com. We are an eco-lifestyle boutique that is transforming the way that companies do business on the Internet.
We would love to share our story with you and your readers!—from launching the world’s first organic flower company to our extensive work with charitable organizations (over $250k in donations to-date!) to supporting small farmers & artisans in their efforts to rebuild their communities—we’re dedicated to making a difference in this world through collaboration with eco-minded people like you.
If you’d like to learn more about us, please feel free to contact me or visit us at www.OrganicStyle.com.
Many thanks,
Jared Grove
jared@organicstyle.com