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Natural Life Magazine Partial Index of Back Issues
Natural Life Magazine Back Issues
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May/June, 2010
Choosing an organic mattress, The ethics of refashioning old textiles
into something new, personal peacemaking, pet dogs and coyotes, hiking
as a metaphor for life, sustainable urban homesteading, vermicomposting,
real food for real kids, toward educative and democratic communities,
parenthood's responsibilities, NaomiAldort : when your child disturbs in
public, R-2000 homes, organic recipes for a crowd |
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March/April, 2010 (sold out in
print)
Buycotting and ethical consumerism, yoga in a child's life, green
smoothies, small net-zero energy house, top ten green building trends,
restoring a property to ecological balance, wholistic simplicity, yard
sharing, helping a child manage a chronic disease, Naomi Aldort: freedom
not license, greening our clothing, the Living Building Challenge,
vertical farming |
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January/February, 2010
Recycle your old cell phone, safer art and craft materials, seeking
answers about breast cancer, rev up your immunity naturally, our
kitchens as wellness centers, Biologic Architecture, Transition Town
movement, what unschoolers can offer to public education, children and
sexuality, green and healthy personal care products, Passivhaus,
education should empower citizens to make our communities work |
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November/December, 2009
Making recycled gift wrap, voluntourism, yoga and diet for dealing with
PMS, one woman's path to humanism, celebrating the winter solstice,
urban beekeeping, yurts, forest preschools, job sharing is good for
people and the economy and the environment, what homeschooling taught a
mom who wants to write, why schools are irrelevant, a week in the life
of an unschooled teen, raw milk, is LEED as green as it could be?, the
Zen of motherhood, vegetarian recipes from readers |
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September/October, 2009
Retrofit your home with straw bales, make your own craft kit, the great
diaper debate, Elimination Communication: going diaper-free, no baby
products needed, eco-fibers: organic wool, health and environmental
risks of eating fish, homeschooling heals trauma of school disease, a
father's journal of unschooling and respectful parenting, Naomi Aldort:
when your diaper-free baby grows into diapers, the no-dig garden,
recipes of cool weather soups |
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July/August, 2009
How dangerous is fluoride in our water?, improving indoor air quality, crafting for a greener world, developing a sustainable culture, edible weeds, transitioning to country life, the art of timber framing, the family hammock, decentralizing educational authority, synthetic eco fibers, growing a snack patch,
a single mom's unschooling retrospective, why your child doesn't need preschool, how to make baby brainy,
converting your family to healthy eating |
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May/June, 2009 (sold out
in print)
The truth about green jobs, journeying to a sustainable lifestyle,
beyond Nature-Deficit Disorder, raising a humane child, living a
gluten-free life to remedy celiac disease, LEED platinum net-zero energy
home, raised bed intensive gardening, hemp fabrics, unschooling mom
finds life balance, unschooling as the ultimate feminist act, yoga for
kids, radical unschooling and philosophy studies, the creative garden,
nutrition for eye health, gardening for biodiversity |
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March/April, 2009
Reducing your carbon footprint; bringing Nature into your home decor;
saving energy in a LEED home; turn your toddler green; super-insulated
energy retrofit of an old house; preparing your organic garden; chickens
in your backyard; recovering from postpartum depression; bamboo
textiles; the dark side of schooling; free universities; eco-friendly
moving; dealing with sibling teasing; alternative economic indicators;
stretch your organic spending power |
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January/February, 2009 (sold out in print)
Make your own household cleaners, be safe and save $; recycling in your
garden; interview with natural landscape pioneer Lorrie Otto;
self-propelled winter sports; involving kids in outdoor sports; greening
your dog's life; a small, green and affordable home; Permaculture:
living and growing with the natural world; a doctor gives bad advice
about breastfeeding; creating a homeschooling community learning center;
weathering winter with oriental medicine |
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November/December, 2008
Examining grass-fed beef, cork is a sustainable interior design product,
alternatives to disposable menstrual products, the problem with factory
forms of education, questioning compulsory schooling, learning math from
real life, straw-clay/post and beam home, organic fabrics, spacing
children's births, playing in Nature |
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September/October, 2008
Pedaling bike power, the Findhorn Garden story, starting a green home
business, applying LEED principles to home design, green reno to a 19th
century home, Ask NL: Air fresheners or air pollutants?, trusting
children's choices, the feminine side of Bau-biologie, computers
and unschooling |
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July/August, 2008
Home birth is green, learning to be present, dome homes, eco-friendly
summer sports, sustainable design for children's rooms, plant veggies
where your lawn was, living with a child with food sensitivities,
learning to draw by observing nature, trusting and living in the moment,
green birthday parties, interview with Russell Scott about spirituality
and sustainability |
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May/June, 2008
Interview: living and working off-grid, detecting
greenwashing, Ask Natural Life: plastics, when art meets ecology,
sustainable housing means a sense of place, revisiting WindSong
cohousing community, solar-powered car, creating a sacred garden,
surviving computer addiction, beautiful broccoli, being in Nature with
children |
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March/April, 2008
Natural burials, Ask Natural Life:
nanotechnology, creating an organic color scheme in your home, being
rich means living sustainably, Edmonton net-zero energy duplex, the high
environmental cost of playing golf, creating a song bird-friendly
garden, feeding your dog raw meaty bones, protecting kids from
commercialism, interview with a Burmese monk |
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January/February, 2008
(sold out in print)
Net-zero energy home in rural Quebec, fixing and
preventing mold in your home, environmentally-sound wood heat, leading
edge solar homes in competition, gardening with native plants and
wildflowers, environmental problems hurt kids the most, interview with
an eco-friendly natural food store owner, Ask Natural Life: electromagnetic fields
and health |
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November/December, 2007
Ask Natural Life: peat moss and the ecological
garden, the clothesline revolution, ecovillages reduce ecological
footprints, lifecycle building creates adaptable homes, growing old with
simplicity, the benefits of tea, ecologically sound hiking, avoiding
giving children toxic toys, interview: living and working in an off-grid
tire house |
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September/October, 2007
Ask Natural Life: how green is my diet?, the problem
with engine idling, the magic of mindfulness, culinary and health
benefits of garlic, using the precautionary principle for wellness,
questions to ask before your travel, an affordable carbon-neutral house,
green home renovations, interview with a cosleeping expert, full life
cycle extended product responsibility |
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July/August, 2007
(sold out in print)
Our interdependent relationship with trees, counting
food miles, eco-chic fashion, Ask Natural Life: is wind power safe for
birds?, plant a downspout bog garden, growing and using rosemary, tree
climbing as a sport, backyard tree planting with kids, interview with an
urban cob builder and unschooling mother |
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May/June, 2007
(sold out in print)
In praise of small houses for a green planet, cob
house, Ask Natural Life: CFLs, planning a green vacation, sustainable
action/extreme sports, public fruit crops and community food, teaching
children to garden, micro-credit for African women, cell phones,
interview with organic grower Janet Wallace |
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March/April, 2007
(sold out in print)
Building with cob, Ask Natural Life: bottled water,
conserving water at home, greening the grocers, buying green computers,
composting how-to, building a composter, greening the Easter Bunny,
interview with author and environmentalist Guy Dauncey, zero-waste
business events |
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January/February, 2007
(sold out in print)
Ask Natural Life: cardboard wine containers,
sustainable seafood, greening Valentine's Day, the benefits of grapes,
natural guide to intestinal health, homeschooling families work together
to help Africans, why it's wrong to label children with learning
disabilities, interview with a straw bale builder
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November/December, 2006
(sold out in print)
30th anniversary features, interview with Natural
Life's publisher, college teaches sustainability by doing, living simply
in the city, a Buy-Nothing Christmas, building a straw bale home,
turkey-free celebrations, turning around the asthma epidemic |
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September/October, 2006
(sold out in print)
Why and how to eat raw foods, the benefits of
altruism, building green a green urban neighborhood, Ask Natural Life:
ethanol, gardening to attract pollinators, organic weed control,
vertical gardens for healthy environments, eco-friendly musical
instruments |
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July/August, 2006
(sold out in print)
Ask Natural Life: the dangers of fabric softeners,
dangers of antidepressant drugs, menopause and self-knowledge, school
nutrition, eating locally, edible flowers, designing green buildings,
zero-energy homes, green roofs, companion planting |
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May/June, 2006
(sold out in print)
Ask Natural Life: the dangerous ingredients in body
care products, music as medicine, sustainable seafood, living in the
moment, enviro-friendly and healthy house cleaning, interview with
eco-architects, organic growing in very small spaces, creating a modern
eco-hood |
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March/April, 2006
(sold out in print)
ADHD and the environment, Earth Day feature: refusing
and reusing, hemp for houses, feeding pets raw food, how religions are
dealing with enviro issues, creating healthy environments for children,
contradictions in how we treat animals, the Eden Project, green by
design |
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January/February, 2006
(sold out in print)
Baby massage, reflexology, Ask Natural Life: dangers
of antibacterial soap, making and keeping eco-resolutions, renovating
your home naturally, organic garden planning, back to Nature in Portland
Oregon, starting to look back at Natural Life's 30-year legacy
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November/December, 2005
(sold out in print)
How to simplify the Christmas holidays, organic wine
and beer, Ask Natural Life: carbon offsets, plants at work, the new
nomadis: green and mobile living, worm composting, eco-travel by bike
through the heart of Europe, Quayside cohousing project |
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September/October, 2005
(sold out in print)
Home water purification, prepare your garden for
winter - and stay healthy, the value of eating raw seeds, learning from
a Spanish farmer who traded his tractor for a mule, people- and
planet-friendly housing, progressive end-of-life solutions |
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July/August, 2005
(sold out in print)
Ask Natural Life: local versus organic food, feature:
healthy and green summer vacations, Cree Village eco lodge,
award-winning North American green buildings, investing in clean energy,
good news about green living trends |
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May/June, 2005
(sold out in print)
Value of natural play, Ask Natural Life: microwave
ovens, growing and using melons, making green lifestyle changes,
PlantWatch is citizen science for all ages, Richard Louv: the
criminalization of natural play, recycling fun with junkyard sports |
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March/April, 2005
(sold out in print)
Green kitchen renovation, the benefits of laughter
yoga, knitting for a change, learning meditation, keeping your pet
healthy naturally, history of Earth Day, dolphins being polluted to
death, greening the hotel industry, living fully in the present
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January/February, 2005
(sold out in print)
Ask Natural Life: dangers and benefits of soy foods,
beat the flu by boosting your immune system, planning your organic
garden, why and how to save your own seeds, in praise of imperfection,
Cuba's organic revolution, legislating corporate responsibility
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November/December, 2004
(sold out in print)
Understanding eco logos and certification programs,
simplifying the Christmas traditions, helping kids understand gift
giving, the benefits of honey, greening a bathroom renovation, renewable
energy comes to the city, good news about sustainable living
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September/October, 2004
(sold out in print)
Benefits and myths about goldenrod, the balance of
traditional Chinese medicine, treehouses have grown up, prairie town
goes sustainable, sustainable cohousing, art for the environment,
celebrating peace, helping kids interact with Nature, Raging Grannies |
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July/August, 2004
(sold out in print)
Dressing the world organically, indigenous people
using renewable energy, replanting trees to offset paper use, simple and
environmentally sound summertime, tofu barbeque treats, Built Green Idea
Home, sustainable wildlife rehab center |
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May/June, 2004
(sold out in print)
Dressing yourself in organic fibers, dangers of
x-rays, health secrets of native Hawaiians, environmentally-friendly
spas, having a pesticide-free lawn, create a native plant landscape,
sustainable housing for the homeless, childhood obesity |
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March/April, 2004
(sold out in print)
Building an off-grid post and beam straw bale home,
how alternative becomes conventional, sustainable harvesting of wild
medicinal plants, survey of the state of green vehicles, gardening that
lures beneficial insects, getting a good night's sleep |
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January/February, 2004
(sold out in print)
Adding green messages to films and television shows,
kids and Nature, certifying sustainable wood products, planting a garden
of healing herbs, clothing that raids the junkyard, understanding
macrobiotics, improving toddlers' diets |
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November/December, 2003
(sold out in print)
Exercising for immunity, a healthy and green house in
Calgary's cold climate, embracing simple living, putting our money where
our principles are = LOHAS, keeping the heat indoors, celebrating winter
solstice, the complex life of a hamburger
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September/October, 2003 (sold out in print)
Flax nutrition and quality, mulches and cover crops
for your organic garden, green small businesses, recipes for enjoying
the pumpkin harvest, never too late to be fit, green guide to cleaning
products, solar panels for flat roofs, keeping kids out of hospitals |
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July/August, 2003
(sold out in print)
Living well and living deeply, watermelon recipes,
green is the hot color in construction, barbequing vegetarian style,
talking to a daughter about the nature of life and learning, hydrogen
buses on the road, lowering blood pressure without medication
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May/June, 2003
(sold out in print)
Illness and the search for meaning, talking to
children about war, building a family and creating the future, communal
food strategies, recipes for communal cooking, fung shui your way to a
simpler and greener home, fair trade: shopping with a conscience
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March/April, 2003
(sold out in print)
Eating the weeds as well as the veggies, iridology:
health in your eye, green summer power options include electric boats,
beans in the garden and the kitchen, learning from Asian simplicity,
green living an urban condominium, pesticides and Parkinson's
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January/February, 2003
(sold out in print)
Recycling computers, healthy air inside your home,
talk cafes: think globally and talk locally, Jane Goodall: learning in
the wild, sustainable Seattle home, recognizing and dealing with mold in
your home, grow more vegetables in less space, David Suzuki's Nature
Challenge, avoiding trans fats
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Natural
Life magazine celebrated 30 years of publishing in 2006. This is the
first cover from the fall of 1976. Although those early issues
aren't available in digital form and long sold out in print, we published a retrospective
throughout 2006. Here is a
look back to
Natural Life's roots
and some of those early issues. |
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