The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner released a bulletin on October 30, 2018 , announcing a new rule around Short Term Limited Duration (STLD) medical plans. LifeMap's Short Term Medical (STM) plan is subject to this rule which went into effect November 16, 2018. A section of...
August 25, 2020 - LifeMap is actively monitoring the current COVID-19 situation. We are taking every precaution necessary to ensure we continue to provide excellent service to our customers during these unprecedented times. Our hearts go out to those directly or indirectly impacted by the COVID-19...
If we’re not burning dirty fossil fuels ourselves, we hardly notice they’re happening. We’ve talked before about how much of our electricity is actually powered by fossil fuels (around 63%, at last count) and how easy it is to forget that when we talk about “saving power” in our homes, we’re still...
Renewable energy is the goose that lays the golden egg – those who seek to find a way to halt climate change in its tracks and sever our ties to dangerous, dirty fossil fuels are all looking for the big, one-size-fits-all solution. Will it be solar power? After all, the sun is the source of all...
Since the pandemic and subsequent global shut-down seems to be heralding a new era in which our dependence on fossil fuels is not only cruel and unnecessary, but much more costly, it’s a wonderful time to take stock of where we’re overusing crude oil. There are some huge things we’re accomplishing...
Picture huge, industrialized fields of waving wheat and corn and soy in the American midwest. That’s about the size of our collective understanding of where America’s food supply comes from. If we know a little bit more, we can use words like “monoculture” and “pesticides.” Maybe you’ve read a few...
The human instinct is to trust and believe. That’s a beautiful thing. In order to immerse ourselves in the sustainable, ethically-sourced, bioavailable world rising up around us, we’ve got to understand the terms being used. Otherwise, you run the risk of endorsing and empowering the wrong...
In April of this year, something happened that no one saw coming. The pandemic was picking up steam, global economies were plunging, jobs were either lost or relocated… And we thought we were in this thing for a month, maybe a month and a half. So maybe the news of what happened in late April didn’...
Keeping up with electronics, their upgrades, and their corporeal fragility can feel like a full-time job – for some, it’s literally a full-time job. Back in 1975, when the first home computer model became available, it came in a kit that you assembled at home. (Imagine if you had to do that today…...
