Troubled times

Michelle Hancock is a frequent contributor to alive.

Colony Collapse Disorder

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Lifestyle

Play soccer for fitness

Mike Broderick is a fitness instructor and writer. He is also an employment therapist who finds jobs for people with mental health challenges, and is a former archaeologist.

Soccer

Transcending borders

Ellen Niemer is a former editor and frequent contributor at alive.

Interviews

Valentine's gifts

Suni Gomichi is a Toronto freelance writer.

Valentine's Day

Traditional & modern

Food and travel journalist Angela Murrills is the author of <a href="http://amzn.to/2nhRZta" target="_blank">Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savouring the Food, History and Mystery of the Languedoc</a> (Raincoast, 2004).

Two Ps in a political pod

Ian Hanington is a Vancouver writer, editor, and teacher.

The new age of solar energy

Nicole Duelli, CCH, RSHom (NA), enjoys sharing her love for homeopathy and other natural, holistic treatments. She is a certified classical homeopath, trained in Germany as a naturopathic practitioner, who practises in Vancouver, BC.

Solar Energy

Direct-to-consumer drug advertising

Shari Graydon is the author of Made You Look - How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know (Annick Press, 2004). She delivers frequent presentations about the social impacts of media and does yoga daily.

Pharmaceuticals

Appreciate Canada's wilderness

Janine Israel is an Australian journalist who has lived and worked in Canada. She is a former assistant editor of alive magazine and is currently a subeditor at The Guardian Australia.

Travel

Four magical spa treatments

Nancy Bowman is a freelance writer who loves exploring and writing about her adventures in BC's magnificent landscape.

An interview with Brian Vallée

Jenn Farrell is a Vancouver writer and personal trainer.

Domestic Violence

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Family

One step a day

Sustainability Initiatives

Return of globetrotting bed bugs

Larry Pellizzari is a Vancouver-based writer and editor whose only bedbugs to date are his two young daughters.

Bedbugs

Green tea - not just for drinking

Christina Dennis is a lifestyle blogger and mom of three. She lives near Edmonton and enjoys crafting and doing activities with her children.

Green housing from the ground

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen is a full-time Vancouver-based freelance writer, alive contributor, and the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/2L8h6s2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Forward When You Can’t Go Back</a> (Baker House Publishing, January 2019).

Going Green

The road less travelled

Alternative Transportation

Making it personal

Ethan Ribalkin is a freelance journalist in North Vancouver. Hes written for television news, magazines, newspapers, and online publications.

Climate Change

Yoga to relieve hypertension

Aimee Christine Hughes, ND, is a freelance holistic health writer currently based in Portland, Oregon.

Yoga

Growing against the grain

Susan Safyan is a former editor at alive.

Agriculture for the future

Vancouver writer Trudy Peskett is especially interested in health and environmental issues.

Gardening

Popping maize's myths

Barbara Yaffe is a columnist at the Vancouver Sun. Her column is read across Canada in CanWest newspapers.

Corn

50 green ways to save the world

Rob Klettke is a writer who is still struggling with, but enjoying, his journey to health and fitness.

The gift of giving

Dr. Laina Shulman, co-founder of Pure-Health, is a chiropractor, consultant, writer, and professional speaker residing in London, Ontario.

Holidays

The simple gifts are often the best

Dr. Gillian Flower is a naturopathic doctor at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre and counsels her patients in the judicious use of natural supplements.

Lifestyle

Plight of the Honeybee

Kick Up Your Workout

Conversation with k.d. lang

Wrap Yourselves in Romance

Valentine's Indulgences

Promotion + Prevention

Let the Sun Shine In

Pushing Rx

Green Escapes

Under the Spell

Behind Enemy Lines

Walking the Enviromental Talk

No Bed of Roses

New Beau-Tea Secret

Modern Mud Huts

Going Carless

Fuel for Thought

Poses for Repose

Pharmed Rice

Organic Bounty

Corn Kernels of Truth

Be an Eco-Hero

Playing Santa

Give More by Giving Less