NYACK, NY –  As a follow-up to the principles of healthy living laid out in her first book, Chill Out & Get Healthy (Penguin/NAL), popular women’s health and fertility expert Aimee E. Raupp, M.S., L.Ac., recently launched a new title, Yes, You Can Get Pregnant: The Diet That Will Improve Your Fertility Now & Into Your 40’s. Raupp’s second book is a compilation of her expertise and clinical experience helping hundreds of women, many of whom had been told their chances of getting pregnant were slim, to get pregnant and have healthy children. A biologist-turned-acupuncturist, Raupp incorporated Western scientific findings...

Rockland Farm Alliance seeks to raise $25,000 through grant from RSF social finance. NEW CITY, NY - Rockland Farm Alliance (RFA), a non-profit organization focusing on revitalizing local food systems in Rockland County, NY, has announced a $25,000 matching challenge made possible by a recent grant awarded by RSF Social Finance (RSF). This 2012 appeal will provide an additional $25,000 to help RFA continue to build community programs and develop new farm projects. “We’re proud to support RFA’s ecological and community stewardship programs,” noted Don Shaffer, President and CEO of RSF Social Finance. “Their efforts to...

Renewable energy is, rightly, in vogue.  After years of burning wood, coal, oil, and atoms, as in nuclear plants, popular opinion is shifting to passive energy. Solar, wind, and wave only require the power plant to exist in the presence of the natural, renewable energy source. In these cases, somewhere in the sun’s rays, in the air’s wind, and floating with the sea, respectively. On Maui, in Hawaii, major wind energy interests have erected more than ten wind energy generators on the mountains near Kihei. These interests include far more than the wind generator manufacturers. To name a few beneficiaries of such a project: The...

Big Rubber Spiders and Teenagers Singing and Dancing   Nerves and Adrenaline Michaella Vilsa is a teen with enormous talent when it comes to singing and dancing, but lying deeper within her little soul is a huge funny bone screaming to get out.  “I love these people, they are so genuine,” Michaella explained about the cast of I Want it All, before she decided to find a rather large rubber spider upstairs at Stage Left in Orangeburg during a rehearsal and throw it onto one of her fellow actors who screamed and laughed at the absurdity.  The spider, along with dozens of Styrofoam heads dressed in wigs staring down at the 13 teens,...