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L&D favorite links

Green Shopping

Green Living

Well beeing

  • www.rawfoodexplained.com Everything you need to know about the Raw Food Lifestyle. Covers all aspects of the Raw Vegan Lifestyle. Articles on Diet, Exercise, Weightloss, Fasting, Drugs, Supplements, Diseases, Overeating, Addictions, Pregnancy, etc.
  • www.freedomyou.com Everything you need to know about fasting, juice fasting, nutrition, healing disease, food addiction, healthy recipes and detoxification.
  • www.herbs2000.com Reference guide for popular herbs, and other important nutrients.
  • www.organicauthority.com Organic Food, Organic Living, Organic Food Recipes, Organic Gardening and more

Yoga links

  • www.himalayaninstitute.org A leader in the field of yoga, meditation, spirituality, and holistic health, the Himalayan Institute was founded by Swami Rama of the Himalayas
  • www.santosha.com Yoga Postures Step-by-Step is a complete interactive guide to the practice and benefits of Yoga postures featuring animations, photographs, illustrations, articles, tips and tricks.
  • www.yogajournal.com Site covers yoga poses, yoga lifestyle, health and yoga, yoga wisdom, and more.

Shopping

Going on vacation

  • www.ontarioparks.com Ontario parks, info, history, reservations, etc...
  • www.thekawarthas.net With a natural wealth of clean, sparkling lakes and rivers and varied landscapes, it's easy to see why the First Nations people called this area Kawartha (Land of Shining Waters)

Business

Official sites


L&D glossary

VOC's

  • VOCs - Volatile organic compounds are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure and easily form vapors at normal temperature and pressure. Volatile - easily evaporate, and organic - contain carbon. It's a smell of a freshly cut orange; it's an odor of mold... Some VOCs do not cause health problems, but others are serious indoor air pollutants. VOC's released into the atmosphere produce ground level ozone.
  • VOCs are emitted, from many manufactured products. There is a word outgassing that refers to these emissions of gasses.
  • Materials Safety and Data Sheets (MSDS) is a document that contains information on the potential hazards (health, fire, reactivity and environmental) and how to safely work with, store, dispose of the chemical product. MSDSs are prepared by the supplier or manufacturer of the material.
  • Formaldehyde (CH2O) is a colorless gas. Formaldehyde is released from a variety of indoor sources, and is present at low levels in the air inside homes. More on formaldehyde...

Sun exposure

  • UPF stands for Ultraviolet Protection Factor. UPF is a measure of total ultraviolet radiation (UV) blocked, both UVA and UVB. And there is "highly UV-protective" clothing is available, visit www.sunsmart.ca.

  • UPF Ratings and Protection Categories
    UPF rating
    (ultraviolet protection factor)    		Protection category% UVR blocked
    (ultraviolet rays)
    15 - 24Good93.3 - 95.9
    25 - 39 Very good96.0 - 97.4
    40 - 50 Excellent97.5 or more