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Swap Of The Day Archive
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Swap Your Habits: Think Healthy and Avoid “Fat Free” Labels
When browsing your local grocery store aisles take this simple piece of knowledge with you: the fact is, labels promoting “fat free” or “low soduim” options are a trap. When manufacturers produce a fat free good, they often do so at the expense of your health. If you read our post 9 Food Swaps to [...] -
Swap of the Day: L.A. Farm Swaps Bees for Business
What happens when you add a little honey to the art of swapping? It gets a little sweeter! Okay, very, very bad joke. But I had to make it and now that we have it out of the way, we can get down to the real point of this post: honey bartering in Los Angeles. [...] -
Swap of the Day: Athens Organization Lets Members Swap Skills
We love talking about how swapping can save you money and as we all know the old saying “time is money.” When it comes to chores and projects around the house the same rules of swapping can apply. In a sense, swapping isn’t just limited to physical goods, you can also swap your time, energy [...] -
Swap of the Day: Swap Ingredients to Create a Brand New Dish
If you love to cook you are very familiar with the joy and excitement that comes from trying out a new recipe. Every step of the process from buying the ingredients to trying the final dish can be a joy to discover. Unfortunately in today’s busy world we don’t always have the time and energy [...] -
Swap of the Day: Doctors Swap Paper Charts for iPads
Next time your at the hospital you may just be handed an iPad to check in with instead of a clipboard. These days an increasing number of doctor’s offices and hospitals keep track of their files electronically using a type of software known as an electronic health record (EHR) platform. This type of software makes the [...] -
Swap of the Day: Seed Swapping Adds Variety
One farmers’ market in southern New South Wales seems to have the right idea: if you want to save something, swap it. The farmers’ market brings a range of community members, all with plants and seeds to share with fellow gardeners. The idea, started by the Bega Valley Seed Savers, is if people bring seeds [...] -
Swap of the Day: 9 Food Swaps to Make to Save Your Life
One of my biggest pet peeves is the use of the word “diet.” Diet has become synonymous with torturing our bodies by cutting out certain food groups for short periods of time only to return to our original eating habits, all the while expecting great weight loss results. But guess what? In reality, you are [...] -
Swap of the Day: Swapping Famous Brands
There are some brand’s logos that we all recognize instantly like the golden arches of McDonald’s or the blue globe of AT&T. Even without the company’s name next to it, I doubt any of us would have trouble identifying what brand each of those logos is associated with. That’s just the kind of staying power [...] -
Swap of The Day: Swapping Bird Eggs To Save a Species
Scientists have taken to egg swapping in the hopes of reinvigorating the ailing population of streaked horned larks in Washington state. The streaked horned lark is a small bird native to both western Washington and Oregon currently on the candidate list of endangered specied according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Washington population [...] -
Swap of the Day: Children Swapping Sugar Cane Fields for Schools
From time to time we like to shine the spotlight on swapping stories that really reach our hearts, and today is no exception. Since the launch of our Swap4Schools program we’ve been keeping an eye out for stories that revolve around the swap movement and our own school system. However we recently read about the efforts [...]