Warm, happy sunshine + a couple in love who happen to be getting married this next spring = Ellen and Andy’s engagement session. We spent the afternoon around Cheyenne Canyon and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know these two. Very much looking forward to their wedding in the spring of 2013! – Megan
I take for granted every time I make a meal for my kids just how easy it is. How easy it is to turn on my stove, heat something up in my microwave, or bake a cake. But did you know that there are still many of us, 3 billion to be exact, out there who cook over open flame for every meal? That means there’s “1 in 2 of us have to walk over 10 miles and spend over 30 hours a week to collect wood, spend up to 35% of our income on purchasing fuel, expose ourselves to harm and smoke the equivalent of 40 cigarettes a day according to the World Health Organization (WHO) just to cook. The WHO has also estimated that harmful cookstove smoke is the fourth worst overall health risk factor in developing countries behind malnutrition, unsafe sex and lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Killing 1.6 million each year, women and children are disproportionately the majority of deaths related to indoor cooking smoke. Surprisingly indoor cooking smoke is the number 1 killer of children under the age of 5 (that’s ahead of AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and water-borne diseases).” — The Paradigm […]
