In our busy tech savvy lives it can be easy to forget about the Earth we should honor. No matter if it is Earth Day or not it is easy to care for the planet any day of the year. Eco-living year round starts with these simple points:

Go Paperless
Reduce the waste you create by going paperless. Be selective of the printing you do at home or on the job. Make folders in your email account to stay organized and limit printing.

Plant a Tree
Planet a tree and create green. Update your home landscape and plant a few trees or bushes. The trees’ leaves can shade your home and cool it in the summer, and save on your air conditioning bill. (more…)

In Florida, when Mother Nature and commerce intersect, you have the Everglades on one side and the U.S Sugar Corp on the other. The biggest sugar cane producer in the United States is closing its doors within the next six years, which means for the State of Florida, it is time to buy.

Florida has bought the land for $1.7 billion and is planning to preserve it.

It is an agreement that will be the largest conservation purchase in the history of the state of Florida. The wetlands of the Everglades are the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, where you can find endangered species such as the Florida panther and the American crocodile.

Although the 187,000 acres of South Florida that are being bought and restored, the domestic sugar cane producers might lose their lobbying efforts to reshape a national sugar policy. During the next six years the company will keep producing sugar on the land. The U.S Sugar Corp produces 700,000 tons of raw sugar annually. They will also provide a severance package for their 1,900 employees during this changeover.

Written by: Isobella Jade

Add sprints to your workout to give it a boost or sneak in a sprint workout when you’re short on time. The American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, released a study that states sprinting is as beneficial for heart health as longer moderate speed workouts. High-intensity workouts provide the same benefits as workouts of moderate intensity performed for a longer time. (more…)

Growing up in a suburb outside of Syracuse, NY, I figured the latest trend of walking would be pointless there. I was proven wrong. Even though Syracuse is a car city, Walkscore.com proved to be helpful. It turned out that a restaurant is walking distance from my neighborhood street; it was less than a half mile away. The closest drug store from my neighborhood was less than a mile away. A cup of coffee was just a little over a mile away. (more…)

Some of the best foods for you are easily forgotten. There are a lot of healthy foods that many of us aren’t eating. Here is a dose of nutritional food items not to be forgotten the next time you go grocery shopping.

Pumpkin Seeds: We played with them as kids during Halloween but pumpkin seeds are actually the most nutritious part of a pumpkin since they are full of magnesium and give you a great dose of omega-3 essential fatty acids and protein.
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A stressed body is not a happy body. Did you know stress can cause involuntary spasms or what are commonly called ticks or twitches? Working in a Web 2.0 startup company and blogging can be
extremely stressful – deadlines, clients, computers, and emails all add to my daily stress. I must be stressed because I’ve recently developed an eye twitch - an involuntary movement of my upper right eyelid! I’ve seen characters with something like this on TV, but now it’s not so funny. This post is near and dear to me because I need it get rid of my twitch. It’s driving me nuts. After doing some research, I’ve found great ways to get rid of eye twitches by reducing daily stress.

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Please welcome guest blogger Agapi Stassinopulos. Born in Athens, Greece, she tours the country as a motivational speaker and is the author of Conversations with the Goddesses and Gods and Goddesses in Love. Agapi recently collaborated with her sister, Arianna Huffington, to complete her book, On Becoming Fearless, from which her workshops were developed.

A personal friend, Agapi has been the source of so much inspiration. Her insights and wisdom have helped keep me going and kicked me in the butt when I really needed it. I have no doubt you will walk away with something powerful from her post below on Finding Your Own Voice.

And remember; be YOU - everyday!

Bob

Now that Hillary Clinton has found her voice, there are no excuses why each one of us doesn’t start looking for our own voice immediately.

So here are some of my tips on how to go about finding your own voice.

In the case of Hillary Clinton, she didn’t find her voice - her voice found her. In a moment of crashing reality that she could loose the nomination, she was humbled, tired and defenseless, but she knew that she had to keep going to the very end.

Her voice of vulnerability opened up and took over. The façade of pretending that everything was great and cheery cracked and her true emotions came through. At a moment of loss came the truth that none of this is easy.

I don’t think Hillary Clinton was crying for the country at that moment. I think she was crying for herself, for how hard it is to keep going when the challenges keep coming at you — and God knows she has had many. But good for her that she allowed that truth to come out at that moment and that she didn’t suppress it.

Being understood and embraced gave her confidence that more of her authentic self, that part that has been so carefully contained, can now come through. She became more human.

So what can we learn from this? What can we apply to the way we live our lives off the campaign trail? Let’s take a look:

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I know, we all have a bit of the closet hypochondriac in us. It’s human nature. But in this community, where we’re striving for wellness, balance, and fitness — what do we do when we feel not quite right, but aren’t ready to bother a friend or call our doctor or other wellness professional? Well, WebMD has put out the coolest tool - Medical Symptom Checker. This is genius. You pick your sex, scroll over the human form and get information on not just generic health issues, i.e. scroll to the throat and it wants to know if you have a cough. I scrolled over areas where they gave the muscle name and it can "symptom check" for the internal constraint and/or the topical condition (skin issues…) As much as we love the web and can arm chair diagnose, sometimes the Internet can produce some pretty horrific scenarios when we’re not feeling well. Symptom Checker gets my vote for topline, informative, non-hysterical analysis and at home treatments for common (and not-so-common) ailments.
Michelle

I bet most of us are in the same boat. We lead stressful, busy lives, running from this appointment to the next, while trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It’s hard, and it takes work. And no one has all the answers for staying in balance, but last week after clocking in 6 subway trips in one day, and that day starting at 8am and going straight through until 10pm, I thought I’d share with you some things I do to keep me from losing my mind:

Meditation/Centering: find 15 minutes before you start your day to sit quietly and center yourself. If you have a mantra, use it. I keep my prayer beads by the bed as a reminder to make meditation a morning priority. If you need motivation, check out this video on our site. The chanting in this video is a nice way to ease into it.

Eating well and vitamins: sometime I’m running from class to class and miss out on eating properly. If I start my day with a high protein, low carb breakfast, I feel SO much better. Then I pop my vitamins and feel like it’s just an extra bit of insurance. I like this line of supplements, New Chapter Brand. The company is based out of Vermont and Costa Rica (what’s not to love there…) and the supplements are organic and probiotic.

My on-the-go balance maintainer/stress buster is by far, Dr. Bach’s Rescue Remedy. A few drops of this homeopathic tincture under the tongue soothes frayed nerves and keeps me in check when I’m feeling generally stressed out and overwhelmed.

I’m going to keep putting together tips for YOU as they come to me and hopefully you’ll pass on some to me, too! Stay cool and be YOU.

Michelle

We all have goals. We all work to do what we can to attain them. And usually that’s takes some hard work. That’s why there is nothing more rewarding than seeing some of those aspirations come to fruition.

For the first time in my life, my personal and professional ambitions have intersected with beYOU.tv as we work to make your fitness, health and wellness goals attainable for You! So seeing beYOU.tv grow, for me, is twice as nice.

Not only does our video library continue to grow (look for episodes of the PBS show Healing Quest soon) we are also seeing traffic continue to thrive (thank You).

And today, we add a new member to the beYOU.tv team! Michelle is a New York City based yoga teacher at East West Yoga. Find out more about her on her profile. But more importantly, keep coming back to read her regular posts on the beYOU.tv blog. Greg and I will still be here too. We’re not going anywhere. Let us know what you like, what you don’t and what you want to hear more about. And if you do like what you’re reading, by all means — share it with a friend.

Come back later today for Michelle’s first post and send her a little note to make her feel as welcome as we are happy to have her with us!

And remember, Be You, Everyday.

Bob