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Where to get Organic Produce in Trinidad

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Fresh Organic  Natural Market in Maraval, Trinidad See More at:  Fresh Organic Shop MALABAR FARMS GOURMET SHOP Long Circular Rd, Maraval, Trinidad Go to Malabar Gourmet

Eating Right and Exercising

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Kale Chips

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Kale Chips A crunchy low-glycemic snack that will fill that pit in your stomach before your next meal and curb sugar cravings. Ingredients •              1 head of Organic kale •              ½ a lemon juiced, or about 2 Tbsp •              1 Tbsp olive oil •              ½ tsp sea salt Make It Like So 1.             Preheat oven to 350F. 2.             Pull kale away from stem, wash and pat dry with a clean towel. 3.             In a large mixing bowl using your hands, mix the kale, lemon juice, olive oil and sea salt together. 4.             Lay kale out in a single layer on a parchment-lined cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Check to see how they're doing. If they're still soft, continue baking, checking every 5 minutes until crispy. 5.             Allow to cool ! You've never eaten a head of kale so fast in all your life .

Kale Salad Recipes

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•              Kale Salad Here are my tips to making a great Organic Kale salad: Salad:               5 stalks of Organic   kale, rib removed, chiffonade (see link above) soaked and dried (see instructions above)               3 Tablespoons currants               1/4 of an apple, 1/4 inch julienne               6 fresh figs, thinly sliced               pinch sea salt               pinch pepper               2 Tablespoons sheep's milk feta cheese crumbled               2 Tablespoons hazelnuts, toasted , chopped Preparation 1.             Wash r kale under clean running water 2.             Remove the ribs ( Optional- I tend to love the chewy texture): Regardless of which variety of kale you choose (they all make great salads), you may first want to remove the tough ribs from the leaves. Use a knife to slice out the stems or just pull the leaves from the ribs with your fingers. You can chop them and sauté them later. 3.       

Climate Change/Pollution

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Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. It affects every corner of our planet – from the poles to the tropics, and from the mountains to the oceans. People and nature worldwide are already feeling the effects: water supplies are shrinking, extreme weather events increasing in frequency and intensity, forests burning, and coral reefs dying. Governments and communities are coming together to act – and we can still escape the worst impacts of climate change, and build a safer future for all. But we need to do more, and faster. Most importantly, we need to step up efforts to switch from using fossil fuels – the biggest cause of climate change – to clean, renewable energy. And we need to help people and nature adapt to the inevitable changes ahead. Read More at :Climate Change Read More about Air Pollution

Plastic Waste

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Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. With a slight change in the formula of plastic, which allows oil to be replaced by limestone, a group of Chilean entrepreneurs has managed to manufacture plastic bags and reusable cloths that are water soluble and do not pollute.      Read More at : Plastic Waste