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Oy to the World! Decorating Tips for an Eco Hanukkah
Flashing and blinking colored lights are already setting my hood aglow at night, and my home looks a bit dark and subdued in comparison. But step inside, and it’s beginning to look a lot like Hanukkah. You want tinsel? We got tinsel. You want some banners and dreidels? Come in, come in, ...
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Brits List 10 Quirky Ways to Reduce Your Environmental Impact
Who says you have to be serious while saving the planet? Definitely not Envirofone , the UK’s leading mobile phone recycling company. They recently did a survey asking Brits to share their favourite tips on how to reduce their environmental impact . Envirofone surveyed 3000 people, who ...
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EcoMeme: Green & Googled in 2009
Google’s annual most-searched-terms report, Zeitgeist 2009: The Collective Consciousness , came out this week (Dec. 1). It included a category called Keeping it Green within its United States, In The News page. Keeping It Green rankings were based on search terms within the subcategory of ...
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Getting Our Green On at EcoSalon
The hard working contributors, columnists and editors at EcoSalon are earning their green stripes, blazing the trails and taking their proven commitment to sustainable living beyond the daily blog. Our strides are so darn exciting, we simply can’t keep them to ourselves. Ready, ...
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Pop Up Shops Are an Eco Hit This Holiday Season
Everyone’s talking pops. Maybe it’s because the holiday season and its consequent consumption mania is upon us, but pop up shops are hot. Gauging the type of brands that are taking part in this pop-up shop phenomenon, however, reveals plenty of great intentions. In fact, vacant ...
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The Color of My Car-bon
Imagine driving along the road and seeing puffs of green or red smoke coming out of the car in front of you. If the new conceptual device created by artist Karolina Sobecka were to enter production, it could happen. Sobecka is in the process of developing the puff , a cartoon cloud-shape ...
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Lisa Jervis’s New Cookbook: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
An obstacle people often face when trying to eat a healthy, green, reasonably priced diet is a lack of cooking skills. Cookbooks don’t always help. Most food authors attempt to teach people how to cook real food (as opposed to opening packages, dumping and stirring) and assume the reader ...
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Hey Kids, Nature Rocks! Games, Tips and a Special Offer
Do you have fond memories of a childhood spent chasing fireflies through the dark, playing soccer in an open field, and going on family nature hikes? Sadly, many kids today don’t: They spend more time playing baseball on their Wii consoles than they do hitting the ball around at the ...
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Circle of Trusty Style: Green Your Napkin Rings
Leave those disposable paper napkins in the grocery aisle and get busy adding style to the reusable pile! Now that we are all invested in organic, reusable cloth (wash in cold, hang dry, of course), spruce up your table and thrill your guests with fun green napkin rings. Calories burned ...
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Pull That Plug! 10 Common Culprits of Phantom Energy Leaks
Phantom energy sucks. Even when turned off, plugged-in electric devices are draining the juice in your house, a phenomenon that can add up to more than 65 billion kilowatt-hours of power each year. Save energy, and you save major cash. The Union of Concerned Scientists calls the culprits of ...
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Will Proposed Biop Plan Restore Salmon and the Economy? A Portland Court Must Decide
Living in the Northwest, salmon is close to my home – and heart. That’s because the salmon restoration issue in the Northwest isn’t just about conservation. Like many other environmental issues, it’s also about jobs and the economy. In fact, salmon fishing brings ...
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Zip Is Hip, Again! Babes in Biker Jackets Go Organic
Organic John Patrick Everywhere you look you see them, even on the non-hog riding gang. Call them rebels with a cause – a need to look trendy while making a statement about planet-friendly fibers. Biker jackets ! The fashion trend comes full circle once again. Think back to ...
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Can a Green Nation Forsake Its Business Cards?
I see ads all the time for green business cards at sites like Green Printer . What sets them apart? Their little squares for doing business are printed on 100% recycled paper using soy and veggie zero-VOC inks with chemical-free plate processing and scuff-resistant, non-toxic aqueous coating. ...
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D.S. & Durga Perfume Giveaway for Scentuous Souls
If I could bathe myself in a scent it would be D.S. & Durga’s Grapefruit. The simplicity of citrus may not sound exotic but the marriage of floral fruit with Jamaican Pirate Seeds from the high seas yields an intoxicating blend. Created by an architect and a musician , the ...
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How Does a Green (Cocoa) Bean Grow?
There’s milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate (which we all know isn’t really chocolate, but so what?) – but how about green chocolate? We’re not talking about a St. Patrick’s Day gimmick, but rather, the eco-friendly chocolatiers at Endangered Species Chocolate ...
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Leftover Turkey? Make a Pot Pie with Olive Oil Pastry Crust
Leftover Turkey? Make a Pot Pie with Olive Oil Pastry Crust
ecosalon.com — Using up all your leftovers is a green thing to do, and this recipe will take care... of all that turkey. You likely have some cream and some vegetables leftover from the holiday, too. If you don’t have the vegetables called for, use what you do have. You can add blanched greens, squeezed ... (more) Leftover Turkey? Make a Pot Pie with Olive Oil Pastry Crust
Furniture Lab Experiment with Facelifts
It’s the kind of lab I wish they offered in school instead of chemistry. Meet Chroma Lab , a collaboration of two furniture doctors, Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua, who merged their fine art skills and history backgrounds to transform “neglected but promising” decor.  ...
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Bubble Trouble: Recycled Flutes Paired with Tasty Bruts
Be the host with the most eco savoir faire. Follow our lead and pair organic bubbly with born-again vessels for celebrating the spirit of reusing and recycling. Your green guests will drink to that! Of course, mine will drink to anything. Cheers to Monaco Champagne Flutes made from ...
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Getting Inspired By Lucky Magazine’s Andrea Linett
Lucky magazine’s Creative Director Andrea Linett Ever flip through Lucky magazine to the end and see the Fashion Babble page with the caricature of Andrea Linett? Here’s an actual photo of her. Her vibe has always screamed sexy to me, as if she were the poster girl for how ...
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EcoMeme: Land Con$ervation
Thanksgiving is for lots of things – feasting on turkey or vegetarian alternatives with family, watching or tolerating football, and if you’re celebrating it in the U.S., contemplating the origins of the country. European colonists here learned and gained a great deal from Native ...
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