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Seems like everyone is starting to plan what they will do with their April windfall - will you splurge? Invest in your future?  Sage advice is to invest in yourself first, as noted in this article by Sara Titus.

My advice is simple… If you have $175 to spend, why not start your own business?  For $175, you can become a doTERRA Wellness Advocate and print up business cards on Vista Print, get free training and support when you join my OilsPro team. Not only do you get a full set of 10 useful oils to use with your family: Melaleuca, Peppermint, Lemon, Frankincense, DigestZen, Lavender, OnGuard, Eucalyptus, Breathe, Deep Blue, plus you get a bonus bottle of Slim and Sassy, the metabolic blend which can help to curb your appetite and boost your metabolism (how great is that?!), and you have a wholesale membership in doTERRA for a full year so you can save money on your family’s wellness products and supplements. Plus, on top of all that, you have the business opportunity - share doTERRA a little in order to help your friends and earn free oils, or share doTERRA a lot in order to build a business helping others. It’s all up to you. How will you spend your tax refund?

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How To Make Your Own First Aid Antiseptic Ointment

The key to this is to melt the CARRIER oils only with the beeswax in a GLASS pot on low. If you use regular organic coconut oil as the base with just essential oils, you might be able to get away with less beeswax since coconut oil hardens naturally.

I have also made belly balm/scar cream using coconut oil and shea butter, with melaleuca and wild orange.

Follow the link for the posted recipe, or use mine, below:

1/2 ounce beeswax, grated

1 cup pure organic coconut oil

5 drops vitamin E oil

20 drops melaleuca (tea tree) oil

20 drops lavender essential oil

5 drops lemon essential oil

5 drops Wild Orange essential oil

You may also optionally add Frankincense or Helichrysium to this batch as they are both supportive of healing.  I also make Owie Blend, Rollerball Remedy, using fractionated (liquid) coconut oil, lavendar and melaleuca. That one is soothing for cuts, scrapes and blisters and may also be used for scaly/itchy patches of skin due to eczema or hives. To order doTERRA oils, please visit http://mydoterra.com/dakota I am a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, IPC #952940

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Apples are still the dirtiest of the Dirty Dozen For the fifth year in a row, apples topped the EWG list of produce ranked by pesticide load.

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Weird and Wacky Weather 2014 - Something strange is going on...

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"What most consumers don’t know about genetically modified foods is that they usually contain genes from a completely different species. The most common GM plants include soy, corn, canola, and cottonseed. The genes that are spliced into their DNA come from entirely different species, including bacteria and viruses. These organisms have never been part of the human food chain. And that’s what has some scientists so alarmed."

~ Food Shock

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petervontiesenhausen

peter von tiesenhausen

fighting the good fight, has prevented natural gas companies from drilling on his land by turning the 800 acres into a work of art and then copyrighting it. from his web site:

The land where he lives constitutes his primary and ongoing artwork and in 1995 he claimed copyright over that land.  He has been successful on several occasions defending this artwork against the incursions of multinational corporate interests.

 Recently he was a driving force for the construction of a sustainable timber frame straw bale community centre in his community of Demmitt, Alberta.

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"why is that everything that is good for our bodies, our communities and our planet is called an alternative?"

Julia Butterfly Hill

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Legalizing Industrial Hemp

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Woody Harrelson - Thoughts from within

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Monolithic dome homes are cost-efficient, earth-friendly, extremely durable and easily maintained. Most importantly, a Monolithic Dome uses about 50% less energy for heating and cooling than a same-size, conventionally constructed building.

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Baking with Essential Oils

doTERRA offers a number of pure oils that are wonderful for baking. Be sure to store them in a cool dark place and the oils will last a long time.

To order doTERRA, please visit http://www.mydoterra.com/dakota

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The 10 Most Polluted States For People Of Color

Non-whites are shockingly more likely to be exposed to deadly air pollution, compared to whites even at the same income levels.

Read More> 

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Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose, or maybe just get rid of it.  Rethink your world, make it less plastic.

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Toxic hit list shows Australians exposed to dangerous pesticides 0

- See more at: http://www.ntn.org.au/clean-food/toxic-hit-list-shows-australians-exposed-to-dangerous-pesticides#sthash.9sm91axm.dpuf

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The key ingredient of Roundup is making its way through the food chain. Since 1996 the amount and the number of genetically engineered crops dramatically increased worldwide. It is estimated that 90% of the transgenic crops grown worldwide are glyphosate resistant. The rapidly growing problem of glyphosate-resistant weeds is reflected in steady increases in the use of glyphosate on crops. Steams, leaves and beans of glyphosate resistant soy are contaminated with glyphosate. Moreover, due to the intensive use of glyphosate it was frequently detected in water, rain and air.

Glyphosate was significantly higher (P<0.0002) in humans fed 

conventional feed compared with predominantly organic fed humans.

I came across this article first on Weeds Network.

I cannot begin to describe how revolting this is. Read and learn.

PDF - full article

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Stunning sunset could be spoilt by wind farm

How a proposed wind farm could affect spectacular sunsets on the Gower Peninsula

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Wild dolphins found getting high on pufferfish toxin, redefining the ‘puff pass’ Documentary filmmakers catch young dolphins ‘experimenting’ with an intoxicating substance.

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this is just too funny!