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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a little Golioth;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The little ones  were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

Happy holidays everyone, may you all have a blessed and joyous holiday season and a prosperous and abundance filled 2011.

Moore, Clement C., and Henry Livingston. “THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.” http://www.christmas-tree.com/stories/nightbeforechristmas.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Dec. 2010. http://www.christmas-tree.com/stories/nightbeforechristmas.html.

Until next time,

Happy holidays & seek unlimited knowledge for your green lifestyle.

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Merry Christmas from Angelo @ Golioth's Marketplace

Hello all, happy holidays to everyone and here is some free vegan recipes that I thought I would share with all of you. There is a lot of recipes to go through I hope you enjoy them all.  Click here…

Happy holidays,

Saverio

Hello all, first of all I would like to say that I wish nothing but the very best for everyone over the holiday season. May it be the best one yet, because as we grow in wisdom we grow in contentment. So happy holidays to all! As we are close to holiday season I thought I’d talk about food and the relationship it has with corporate social responsibility (C.S.R.). Part of the corporate social reponsibility menu is keeping our business local if possible, in supporting local businesses we are supporting our community and getting goods that have been produced in our own marketplace. Buying local produce is one such good example, why buy fruits and vegetables that have been sitting in distribution centers for the last week? Doesen’t sound very fresh so why waste the money to treat yourself to degraded nutrients and possibly chemical persevative infested produce?

I am a vegan myself, but I have the same qualm about buying meat for my 3 dogs  from places where the meat was shipped  from elsewhere (different state or provinces); where the animals were raised in an unhealthy environment, and  injected with hormone and steroid type chemicals to produce fake, unhealthy and a diseased food base for my pets.  My wife and I love our pets too much to introduce this type of food into their digestive systems; and we do not wish to encourage such animal rearing practices either. This is another benefit of fitting our lifestyle within the scope of corporate social responsibility.

C.S.R. is beneficial to all of us as business owners and consumers, and as we wipe the cob web from our eyes from all the media laden fear inducing marketing they provide us we come to realize that there is nothing better than supporting local businesses. It helps local businesses thrive and us lead healthy, content lives. After all we spend a lot of  time going all the way to supermarkets in an attempt to make good delicious meals, but how good will a meal be with produce and food that has been sitting in warehouses or has been en route for the last 7 days?

Until next time,

Seek Unlimited Knowledge for you Green Lifestyle!

Saverio

Angelo the schnauzer

Hello all, our household has become busy again. With the new little bundle of fur we are a 3 dog family again. Our choice of breeder and pooch was dead on! We selected from a breeder whom we felt shared our sentiments and energy, and we knew would care about her pooch she delivered to us as much as we wanted this little guy to become part of our family.

WEEK 1 update:

On the last post about this related topic we covered some basic ground rules on raw diet feeding for dogs; the mystery intensifies though! We have had the little guy his name is Angelo for roughly a week now, and we are not using raw food on him yet. I’m sure you might be thinking… What? But I thought feeding raw is a good thing. It is but in the initial stages after a little pup is reared on food and away from the mother’s milk, they are also fed regurgitated food from the mother. Since there is no way to simulate a grown dog’s raw food being eaten and regurgitated with strong stomach acid juices, the next best thing was to prepare cooked meat and very high quality kibble and begin his diet in this manner.

Week 3 update:

Angelo is no longer so little guy; he is now at the beginning of the week 3 eating slightly cooked raw meat and his veggies. I felt the next step moving to complete raw food should be within the current week and so I began feeding full raw. He devoured it like nothing we have seen as of yet; he was enthusiastic about his food before, but now that we have switched him to raw meat both ground beef/bison as well as organ meat, he devours it like it is the greatest thing on earth. Proving once again that Mother Nature knows best we are happy to have him on the diet that the universe designed for him. Of course we want to make sure that he respects where the food comes from, so he must sit and provide eye contact to his pack leaders to make sure he understands who controls the food and to create that special bond between packleader and the 3 month old little guy. As well I mix his food with my hands while he is eating at the same time reminding him that as pack leader I control the meal time experience at all times just like a dog/wolf would do in the wild. This is not an egoist view of a human but a benevolent view as it creates bond and understanding between you and your companion that stretches far beyond the limitations of filling one’s belly with food. 

 I wanted to mention this point because there are many naysayers who still live with the ideology that raw meat makes animals open to biting humans because they have tasted blood.  This is simply not true! If a dog bites a human it is because a situation of abuse, lack of socialization or the simple fact that the person did not understand one simple fact: He/she was never a pack leader in the dog’s eyes to begin with! Regardless of raw food or kibble this situation could occur, the raw meat has nothing to do with it. Taking the time and effort to simply set boundaries and limitations in your pup’s eyes creates a companion whose company can be enjoyed every time and everywhere. This is the greatest gift of all. * For training methods I really recommend looking at some reading material from Cesar Milan or check out his show Dog Whisperer it is quite insightful.

I realize that I strayed off topic on the raw food subject but I needed to mention this important point because we all want to enjoy our companion’s company and wish to have them with us where ever we go most of the time, and that is the most truly wonderful and rewarding gift we can give them and they can give us.

Until next time,

Seek Unlimited Knowledge for you Green Lifestyle!

Saverio

Hello all just wanted to speak on the importance and the significance of Earth Hour coming up on March 27th, 2010. Why is this one hour so important? It is so because it brings about awareness on a global scale about the level of importance this issue has for all of us. It is now clear more than ever that the earth cannot remain sustainable at current levels of mass consumerism that we now have reached. All the cause and effects we have witnessed over the past 100 years have now caused something much greater on a global scale which now affects all of us! No longer is it just simply an oil spill in a remote region, no longer is it a polluted environment in a remote area, the land dumps each city has generated; the earth can no longer get rid of all this junk because it has been bombarded and overwhelmed. We are draining the earth of its resources to amply supply us with everything we need because we have been taught that consumerism = happiness, yet it doesn’t and we like to mass store money we don’t need, food we don’t need, clothes we don’t need, shoes, cars, the list goes on and on.

My friends over at Urban Grassland posted this Earth Hour video that demonstrates the energy and power that we all have on this situation to make change. We do not need to approach this situation with anger or frustration, yet simply know what we need our resolve to be and approach it with intention, purpose and know that there are millions of people across the globe who feels just like me and you. Realize what our outcome needs to be and it will become so. Our resolve must be to find new sustainable energy sources that Mother Nature endorses by amply providing us with them. Sustainable fuels and energies can be created from crops, and the wind the earth provides; yet we have been convinced since early age that we need oil, coal and gas like substances to be able to run vehicles and worst yet travel across the globe to acquire these fuels that create great amounts of pollution just so we can buy fuel that we always had at home locally available to us. My focus is mostly on energies because for decades they have been the drive for mass consumerism, corporate bullying, unfair labor, fighting, violence and the list goes on.

In conclusion I hope that each and everyone of us takes into consideration what this hour means, do not take it for granted. Stop the consumerism and waste of resources just for on hour. We owe the earth that much just out of respect for all the awe inspiring moments she has given us and all the joy of food, air and life she has provided.

Until next time seek unlimited knowledge for your green lifestyle!

Namaste,

Saverio

Hello to all, today we are touching on a different subject all together. In a way I guess it’s like mixing business with pleasure.The business we conduct will affect the pleasure we take in the earth, the air, the quality of life we seek.  Our children and grandchildren and many generations after will be affected by the choices we make.  We as a society and as a race are always breaking beyond our borders of comfort; if this were not so we would not and never would  grow beyond the scope of our own present level of consciousness. The video chosen here was only to reinforce what we already know; we are ready for change and very much welcome it. Lets spread the word as much and as often as we can because our sphere of influence is growing and we are awakening so many others that we are in contact with daily. Even though it may not seem as so, remember our thoughts and actions are like seeds that grow and they remain implanted in the minds of others and it begins to embed their consciousness.  All we can do and ever should is live the life that is right for us and that energy is contagious!

I would also like to welcome our  readers’  thoughts on how do you make your life green? For example me and my wife buy sustainably close to home. Even though we are vegans, we purchase meat for  our dogs’ raw diets.  They  eat food that is grown close to home as well; it is also  hormone free, and food that is raised naturally. We actively seek products, that are certifiably organic, made from recycled material; and local farmers’ markets have become our shopping centers so to speak.  I look forward to reading your comments.

Until next time,

Seek Unlimited Knowledge for your Green Lifestyle

Hello all, first if all I’d like to apologize for being away for so long. I would like to thank everyone for your kind words of encouragement and am grateful that all of you have enjoyed the blog postings on Golioth’s Marketplace. That being said let’s get down to business, with our next topic. I wanted to talk about today on the subject of raw food diets for dogs. My wife and I are stern believers that all of us not only humans should follow an instinctual way of eating the way we were meant to; this means  to eat what is good for us. I have long been a fan, and companion of dogs. We have 3 of them roaming around our household at all times; now that we are planning the acreage life and since bylaws allow it, this number is surely going to range from 5 to 10 at least. There is something majestic and peaceful about being a packleader and having these little souls join our lives and enrich our soul and spirit.

This all being said this is the first time, in my lifetime that I am fully in the right cognitive  frame of mind (knowledge wise) to start our new companion into a raw, organic lifestyle which I guarantee you he will love and cherish. You see we are now prepared with the tools and the knowledge to provide a perfect balanced diet for this little guy and what we are following is what mother nature and universe intended; to eat by instinct.  I have been feeding raw food diets for our dogs for years but am more knowledgeable than ever that we are as close to the raw wolf diet that is enjoyed by dogs in the wild than ever before. To boot, we have discovered local meat markets which are providing: “animals that are raised in stress- free, outdoor environment, with access to plenty of feed and clean water. These animals have never been fed hormones or medicated feeds, nor have they been fed any feeds containing other animal parts.” This means heaven to a dog just like fresh fruit and veggies are heaven to us who are herbivores!

The diet is quite simple; it is 60 to 75% meat, and some green vegetables to top it! Our dogs’ day begins as such:

* This amount is for our Doberman who is 60 to 65lbs.

1. 2 and 1/2 cups of meat usually I use 50% lean ground beef and 50% organ meat ( liver, kidney, heart, tripe, any of these are nutritious!)
2. 1 cup of chopped carrots, spinach, or any other leafy greens to simulate the stomach content of the animal prey
3. 1 to 2 table spoons of cod liver oil
4. Ground up egg shells about a teaspoon will do

That is all! It is simple yet effective (like mother nature) and if your dog has been on processed dog food and is suffering from ailments such as allergies, lethargic behavior and other problems, they will disappear. All three of our dogs have had these diets implemented on them since the moment we got them and their skin, and eyes brightened up in a day or two.  Important to note: if your companion suffers from lethargic behavior, crushed powdered kelp may be of great help (you can find some in your local health food store) about a 1/4 teaspoon if it’s a little guy and full teaspoon if it’s a bigger dog like Labrador size or greater. The iodine in the kelp assists in balancing the thyroid. This can be discontinued once the little guy or girl has gotten their energy back. In future blogs we will talk about using apple cider vinegar to balance stomach acidity.

Until next time,

Seek Unlimited Knowledge for your Green Lifestyle

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

“Albert Einstein”

The thing about science is that you cannot pick and choose the bits which are and are not convenient. You cannot negotiate with the laws of physics and chemistry.

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