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Hempy Holidays!
I've been waiting for the EcoTools cosmetic bags to come out FOR-EVER. As you know, I’m a keen fan of the brand as it is. The brushes are made from sustainable bamboo, with recycled aluminum ferrules and non-animal hair (good for all the animal lovers on your holiday list). Plus, as ...
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December’s Recycling Project: Computers
If the lines outside Best Buy on Black Friday weren’t indicator enough, the holidays are clearly when many families look for great deals on new computers. If you're one of them, you might be wondering what you should do with the one you're replacing. You probably know that it’s illegal ...
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5 Things to Be Thankful For
I've mentioned before my family tradition of sharing what we're thankful for before we begin eating our Thanksgiving feast. While this year has been a challenging one for so many people I know (and certainly my family hasn't been immune to this) I think that there is still plenty for us ...
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Smart n' Sassy Black Friday Advice
Ready to wait in line for hours before getting jostled and trampled by other shoppers to buy a cheapo, will-break-by-New-Year’s-Day toaster you don’t need? We know the perils of Black Friday shopping—yet millions of Americans brave the malls and Walmarts anyway. Here’s smart and funny advice ...
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Green Gourmands on the Go, Part II of III
It’s not just pushcart cuisine that’s keeping the underemployed chefs of California solvent. Another trend that’s been flourishing for the last few years is that of the underground kitchen, a periodic menu created by chefs without an establishment to call their own, or moonlighting while ...
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Toxin-Free Furnishings
Welcome to LIME's Organic Living blog, where organic lifestyle expert Eliza Sarasohn - author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organic Living - tackles your questions on the ins and outs of living la vida organica . This week, Sarasohn talks about how to steer clear of toxins when ...
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Is Your Female Brain Insane?
I'm too young for menopause, but I'm old enough to have friends who have reached it (or the condition that precedes it called perimenopause). Every so often I'll hear a joke about hot flashes, but I can't yet relate. Or I'll hear the term bioidentical hormones, but the only thing I know about ...
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Thankful for Being Born American
Gratitude is always in season, but there's nothing like Thanksgiving to nudge us into being more specific. For example, I've been thinking lately about how fortunate I am to live in the United States. No matter how much I disagree with our government, get furious at Congress, chafe against ...
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iPhone Apps for Going Green
If you have an iPhone, you probably use it to play games, read books, and even watch TV and movies. But how awesome would it be to use it to help you stay green too? Here are ten eco-minded apps worth taking a look at: Green News Reader Aggregates the latest green news from sites ...
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Why Not Get Everything You Ever Wanted?
Why not? It’s a simple enough question, right? Like... why not go skydiving? Why not start exercising? (You’ve been saying you would for the last five New Years.) Why not take up that one hobby you keep saying you really want to try, but you always find a reason not ...
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Troubleshoot for the Perfect Cup of Coffee
With organic , fair trade coffee beans running nearly $10 a pound at my local natural food stores, I expect my morning joe to deliver a total sensory “mmmm” day after day. When that doesn’t happen, I walk backwards through the coffee making process to find the weak link. Here’s how:  ...
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Four Easy Food Substitutions
As Kermit the Frog and one of my fellow Lime.com bloggers would say, It ain't easy being green, especially when it comes to food and eating. Making the most environmentally responsible choice isn't always the cheapest one, the most readily available, or the most convenient. The same holds ...
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Green Eating While Reading
Whether you're contemplating a vegetarian diet, thinking about planting a new tree in your backyard, or considering a winter garden, a new eco-foodie book's out to help you make some green decisions. Check out the reviews to see if you should pick up—or download—the whole read: >> ...
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Fingernails & Your Health
Eyes may be a window to the soul, but it seems that fingernails are a great barometer for our health. I learned this after reading an article on WebMD about how our fingernails' color, texture, surface, and other details give experts insight about what is happening inside our bodies.  ...
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Plastic: Not-So-Fantastic
0 0 Welcome to LIME's Organic Living blog, where organic lifestyle expert Eliza Sarasohn - author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organic Living - tackles your questions on the ins and outs of living la vida organica . This week, Sarasohn identifies the toxic culprit lurking in ...
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Green Gourmands on the Go, Part I of III
As an enthusiastic traveler, I’ve developed a fondness/borderline obsession for street food. From puffed rice bhelpuri to rice noodle soup, ice-cold chicha morada to fresh-crushed sugar cane, hot dogs to hot dog, I’ll try anything being sold from a pushcart or taco truck at least once. ...
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Become an Eco-preneur
This fall I had the chance to write an article about three eco-preneurs. Rianna not only started her own holistic beauty line, Organic to Green , she also launched ReuseCycle , a program where she collects, sanitizes, and reuses glass bottles from local restaurants (she then packages her ...
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Pretending to Text
One of the great things about having Facebook friends across the age spectrum is finding out what's going on in other subcultures. If you're on the social networking site at all, you probably know that there are all kinds of special interest pages, but one that popped up today made me, ...
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November’s Recycling Project: Freecycling
This is the third in a series of four year-end recycling projects. September’s project was printer cartridges. Last month’s was cell phones. This month's is freecycling. Next month’s is computers. The 19th-century English decorative artist William Morris once said, “Have nothing in your ...
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