December 23, 2009 Written by Tracy Hepler
The End of Year Festivities can be hectic for us all. So if you find yourself rolling in stress check out some of our favorite tips and ideas to help you relax when the going gets tough.
Sleep: Want to give yourself a holiday gift? Consider greening your bedroom. Creating a healthy place to sleep will not only improve your mood, it will increase your overall health. Our green maven Danielle gave us some great tips on how to do that here.
Renew: If you’ve got a few days off for the holidays, pamper yourself with healthy, home made skin care. We’ve got some fab skin care treatments that you can make with ingredients from your kitchen cabinet (avocado hair mask anyone?) or blend your own essential oils using our mini guide and put them in a bath. We’ve got a killer foot scrub recipe for you to try too.
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Eat Healthy: Are you on cookie/sugar overload? Take a break from holiday sweets and make your own delicious, healthy, tasy and raw Rawkstar Smoothie. This recipe is packed with healthy veggies and fruits like kale, pineapples, almond butter for protein and is sweetened with low glycemic agave. Seriously each day that I drink this I’m off to a great start. All you need is three minutes, the ingredients, a blender and you’ll be rawkstaring out too. Get the complete recipe here.
Organize: Want to get an early start on “spring cleaning” check out our first episode of YDT TV, “Greening Your Closet” and get inspired to organize your closet.
Explore: 2010 will feature more local neighborhood green guides, but our first one released this fall is out and covers the Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz and Atwater Village area. If your curious to explore these neighborhoods and check out the local green businesses and non profits that our there our guide is certainly worth a browse. You can download a pdf copy too here.
Read/Watch: Catch up on some great books and films you’ve missed this past year. You can check out some of our picks for great eco films and books to read from this year and if you want to take a further trip back, check out our picks from 2008.
.Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. We’d like thank all of you who have joined our online community and we look forward to bringing you the best in local green when we come back in 2010. We’ll be off from now until January 4th with original content, but be sure to check back next week for “THE BEST OF YDT 2009″. Be sure to check out our Mini New Year’s Eve Green Guide too.
In Case You Missed It: This week’s recipe of Grandma’s Easy Apple Strudel is up as is our Latest Episode of YDT TV, How To Eco-Gift Wrap. ..
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