LOLA
LOLA (Lots Of Love Always) is a book for young women about how to adopt a sustainable lifestyle and make healthy choices. Filled with colorful graphics and a wealth of tips, recipes, remedies, and inspiring anecdotes, LOLA deals with what young women really need to know to lead happy, productive, and fulfilling lives.
My grandmother is 100 years old today& #x2764 ;& #xfe0f ;!! Born in Bruxelles, put in a convent by her father when she was 9 years old, saved from becoming a nun at 12 by her uncle, married my grandfather when she was 22 after only knowing him one week, lived in Tangiers, Puerto Rico, Vence, Saint Paul de Vence and Nice, had 3 children, my mother Mireille was the eldest, and is grandmother to 6 and great grandmother to 10 1/2 (another great-granddaughter to be born in September)& #x2764 ;& #xfe0f ; @mayalune Tonight is her big party ! Swipe to the left to see her with
Good Morning from gorgeous Nice (south of France) Room with a view, classic breakfast while catching up on local news: 100% electric powered bus debuts in Nice; a tournament of the game Boules; Rana, a turtle rehabilitated by the Musée océanographique of Monaco, was released back into the Mediterranean Sea and a classical music festival is in full swing in St. Paul de Vence (where my grandparents used to live). The hotel where I’m staying is full of art, including several pieces by one of my favorite local artists, Ben. #priscillawoolworthphotography #travels #nice #southoffrance #celebrating #grandmeres # #birthday #monaco #stpauldevence
Shout out to my amazing grandmother who is turning this ThursdayI’m on my way to be with her in Nice, south of France ! (Hugging her on my right and my aunt Kaki, on my left). Looking forward to celebrating her and being reunited with my french tribe& #x2764 ;& #xfe0f ; En avant! Forwards! #travel #france #southoffrance #nicefrance #grandmere #frenchliving #frenchlife #mylife #mystory #myfamily #ilovemyfamily @michael_woolworth @thierryblouet @geraldineotte @mayalune
May your world be full of flowers Flora by Lizzie Riches Flora sits upon her garden stone settle, dressed in a veritable celebration of prized blooms and wild flowers from a gardener’s year. #artistlizzieriches #flora #flowers #wildblooms #panzy #lily #tigerlily #passionflower #tulip #parrottulip #foxglove #digitalis #bees #pollinators #gardening #garden #ilovetogarden #iloveflowers
Shout out to Dianna Cohen of the awesome Plastic Pollution Coalition The PPL is a growing global alliance of individuals, organizations, businesses, and policymakers working towards a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, waterways and oceans, and the environment Plastic never goes away Plastic piles up in the environment Plastic spoils our groundwater Plastic poisons our food chain Plastic attracts other pollutants Plastic affects human health Plastic threatens wildlife Plastic costs billions to abate Plastic is a substance the earth cannot digest Refuse Single-Use Plastic #priscillawoolworthphotography Please support the work of @plasticpollutes Thank you!
Nautilus Shells Did you know that the nautilus is considered to be a “living fossil,” having survived unchanged for millions of years. (Amazing!) They live in the deep slopes of coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific, are scavengers and opportunistic predators, eating molts of lobsters, hermit crabs and carrion of any kind. Nautiluses and all seashells are extremely vulnerable to pollution and ocean acidification caused by carbon pollution released by burning fossil fuels. Increased ocean acidification=less shells. Support renewable energy, from wind to solar energy, whenever possible because they are the best options we have to stopping or/and slowing global warming.
Have you made delicious, nutritious and easy-to-make Stinging Nettle Soup yet? I’m having some for dinner this evening Did you know that stinging nettles contain several vitamins, minerals, calcium and more fantastic health benefits. Who knew that such a plant that has been disparaged by many (including me from many uncomfortable encounters when I was little!) and considered a weed, is brilliant for our health. I posted the recipe in the Summer Issue on my site, along with a post about nettles health benefits. I also just learned something new today about nettles and how they benefit the vegetable garden,
Shout out to forensic ornithologist Pepper Trail, featured here in his Ashland, Oregon-based lab. He identifies the victims of wildlife crime- if the victim is a bird. The position is so rare that he’s one of just two people in the United States to hold it. Trail has to be objective in the roughly 100 avian crime cases he handles a year, though sometimes he gets emotional. Knowing an animal has “died horribly” is not easy to accept, but he gets satisfaction when he is able to draw attention to an issue, like the chuparosas- dried hummingbirds marketed as love
Ostrich Egg by the famous Martha, who only laid bumpy eggs #beauty #in #imperfection #ostrich #ostrichegg #martha #priscillawoolworthphotography #privatecollection #naturalcuriosity #rareegg
Love Yvon Chouinard Love him for always standing up for the environment and taking action. In this case, he is suing the president in a bid to protect Bears Ears National Monument, because ofplans to sharply reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah. Bears Ears would be slashed in size by 85 percent, and potentially opening up protected areas to drilling and mining. Bears Ears is sacred land to tribal groups and home to Hopi and Navajo ruins and petroglyphs carved into rock walls. The future is clean and renewable energy& #x2728 ; To read more about this developing story,
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival
~ Wendell Berry
Welcome to the Almanac Newsletter, an e-quarterly in which each issue celebrates innovations in Sustainable and Innovative Designs, Game-Changers who are creating and inspiring positive change, Eco Films that entertain and enlighten, Artists and Authors who are inspired by nature, Plant Based Recipes, a monthly Organic Gardening Calendar, as well as empowering readers to become informed consumers, by turning their purchasing power into a powerful tool for change. Attention is given as well to a Group or Organization that endeavors to arrest, contain, or reverse environmental damage and preserve our natural world for future generations.
As the public becomes increasingly aware of global warming and the unhealthy repercussions of heedless consumption of environmentally harmful products, people are more and more choosing to commit to greener, healthier lifestyles. We are all learning how to make conscious choices that reduce our use of natural resources and ideally serve to protect and sustain them.
Welcome also to my book titled LOLA, Lots of Love Always, which is aimed at young women but is a good read for everyone. It shows how to live a sustainable lifestyle and make healthy choices that are good for you and the planet at large. You are welcome to read the LOLA Blog, which has been archived on my site.
~Invest in the future by taking care of the present~
Priscilla Woolworth
What’s New
Forest Stewardship
I recently took an informative 6 week long workshop called the Fundamentals of Forest Stewardship because I wanted to learn how to have a reciprocal and productive relationship with the forest by my home, and have a deeper understanding of the forest garden within, as well as learn the tools to preserve natural habitats for animals and insects alike.