Green Living
ecochildsplay.com - 6 hours ago
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Editor’s note: The following piece is guest post
by Dalit Holzman from Natural Pod, one of our
favorite eco-friendly toy companies . Dalit is part of the Natural Pod team ( www.naturalpod.com ) and raises her two daughters as open-endedly as possible…with the help of some boxes. ...
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Open Ended Play Lets Kids’ Imaginations Set Sail!
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alternativeconsumer.com - 7 hours ago
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Her bio reads like a Who Who of
Green — a veritable powerhouse of living an ecofriendly,
sustainable lifestyle. Over the course of the next year, Rebekah Green (pictured below) is poised to kickoff food, clothing and shelter merchandising — all in the name of green. I’m ...
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Rebekah Green rolls out green gems
alternativeconsumer.com - 7 hours ago
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The LModern coffee table is the tasteful merging
of a recycled door (I’m still looking for it),
handsome, upcycled Brazilian Walnut parquet flooring and an L shaped piece of wall shelving. 49″l x 30″w $750 @ jalexstudios etsy shop
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JalexStudios upcycled LModern 2 coffee table
ecochildsplay.com - 8 hours ago
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Rebekah Green has been globally aware and environmentally
conscious since the second grade. Throughout her life she’s
done a lot for the “green” movement. Her latest efforts include a sustainable line of earrings made from recycled gold. She even has several designs ...
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Rebekak Green Sustainable Earrings: Precious Gifts for ...
easyecoblog.com - 15 hours ago
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The EPA gives out Green Chemistry Awards to
the design of chemical products and processes that reduce
or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry applies across the life cycle, including the design, manufacture, and use of a chemical product. When you are looking ...
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EPA Green Chemistry Awards
mindzle.com - 16 hours ago
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Both radical and moderate ways define people’s efforts
of learning how to live environmentally friendly. It all
resumes to the willingness to make personal changes. Nothing can be implemented by force and only personal awareness and consideration for the natural world can make a ...
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How To Live Environmentally Friendly
mnn.com - 20 hours ago
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Wondering what styles will be in eco-fashion
this fall and winter? Earlier today, green-thinking fashionistas got
treated to an eco-vegan fashion show at the Green Blogger Convention at Environmental Furniture in Los Angeles.
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The latest, greenest eco-fashions
ecochildsplay.com - 21 hours ago
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Last week, while volunteering at my daughter’s classroom
Halloween party, I flinched a little as I saw
one of the other parents dutifully strolling around dispensing the requisite waterless, chem-filled hand sanitizers. Aside from my skepticism that anti- bacterial soaps will actually do ...
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EWG Gives School Cleaning Supplies Their Report Cards ...
greenupgrader.com - 21 hours ago
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If you’ve ever stuck around after an open
air rock show and witnessed the carnage that remains,
you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that the amount of plastic disposable water bottles left on the ground is staggering. Really, try it some time. Not only will you be ...
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Phish Reduces Water Bottle Consumption at Festival 8 ...
supereco.com - 26 hours ago
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Skål! It's time to start planning holiday parties,
and that means egg nog, champagne and sparkling wine,
hearty beers and ales ... But being the eco-savvy person you are, you'd prefer yours to be organic , Earth-friendly and sustainably produced. We'll drink to that. Crack open a tall ...
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Holiday libations as green as the Grinch
greenupgrader.com - 27 hours ago
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Brr! It feels like the temperature dropped over
night! According to the folks at EPA’s Energy Star,
about half of our home energy use goes to heating and cooling our homes, and we use the vast majority of that energy on heat during the chilly months. Luckily, those crafty Etsy sellers have ...
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Handmade Options for Winterizing Your Home
alternativeconsumer.com - 28 hours ago
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Here’s a another great alternative to buying bottled
water. This Restore Clean Water System consists of an
8-cup pitcher and an ultraviolet adapter. Restore has a unique dual-filter process for eliminating solid particulate material as well as bacteria and viruses from your tap water. ...
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Homedics Restore Clean Water pitcher
planetgreen.discovery.com - 28 hours ago
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Changing the way people think about food is
no simple task. But the Future Food team is
up for the challenge, as they seek to not only redefine food, but also look for solutions to some of the world's most pressing environmental issues.
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Future Food Comes to Planet Green!
borganic.org - 29 hours ago
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(www.Borganic.org) Type 2 diabetes is an international epidemic
and 380 million people throughout the world are expected
to develop the condition by 2025. The vast majority of the time, pre-diabetes (also called impaired glucose tolerance or IGT), which is marked by higher than normal blood ...
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Chinese herbs may prevent diabetes the organic way
ecofriend.org - 29 hours ago
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Eco Factor: Treehouse made from sustainably sourced wood
gets powered by renewable energy. Working with Dans mon
Arbre , Industrial designer Benoît Fray has unveiled a sustainable treehouse that is constructed from locally sourced wood. The ...
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Eco Homes: Sustainable Tree House evolves with its ...
alternativeconsumer.com - 29 hours ago
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Our good friends at Olive are always on
the prowl for innovative products that benefit the discerning
eco dog. Here’s a nifty-looking jacket for keeping your favorite hound warm and happy about being outdoors in the often chilly elements. Cloudburst makes this jacket from recycled ...
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recycled polyester doggie jacket
alternativeconsumer.com - 31 hours ago
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With Halloween behind us, it’s near time to
pack away the festive fall décor to make space
for the merrier holiday gear. What to do with the pumpkin that sat on your porch stoop? While the thrifty bakers among us will likely turn it into a Thanksgiving pie, the beauty hounds can do one better ...
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Help your skin – A DIY Pumpkin Face Mask
alternativeconsumer.com - 31 hours ago
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The Republicans took there toys and went home…Democrats
Advance Contentious Climate Bill – msnbc OK kids…let’s go
to Target in our excessively big hunk of metal…Electric SUV’s: A Smaller Footprint for Big Vehicles – cs monitor The Quest to Save the ...
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a big stack of green news
greenskeptic.blogspot.com - 31 hours ago
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Day Two of the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance
Conference this week featured the first clean tech track
in the history of the conference, an indication that the sector is emerging in this region. The clean tech track opened with a "financing ...
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MAC Alliance: Promise of Clean Tech in Region
mnn.com - 33 hours ago
feelgoodstyle.com - 35 hours ago
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Last spring, my best friend got married. Three
weeks before her blessed wedding day, a bachelorette party
was held. Two days before that, I purchased an American Apparel black dress for the party. It was skin tight, short, and featured a scoop ...
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Introducing mydearthing- An Eco-Line That Has Stolen My ...
mnn.com - 35 hours ago
ecofriend.org - 35 hours ago
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission electric vehicle designed to run
on renewable energy. Renewable energy company EarthSure has announced
that the company is planning to build an electric vehicle that will harness solar and wind energy to fuel its ...
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Eco Cars: EnergySure to develop solar and wind powered ...
mnn.com - 35 hours ago
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As you may have noticed, there’s no shortage
of home designs that incorporate unlikely upcycled objects …
wine racks made of skis, speakers made from Dorito bags,
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Top green design from Tel Aviv
easyecoblog.com - 39 hours ago
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Method has a new O Mop All Floor
care kit with compostable sweeper clothes and lemon-ginger all
floor cleaner, $32.99 from Amazon. Ergonomic mop, corn-based sweeping clothes, reusable microfiber mop pad. Got a Swifter? You could probably buy their $18 compostable, corn-derived sweeper dusters ...
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Method O Mop All Floor Cleaning kit
alternativeconsumer.com - 44 hours ago
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Are you into multi-tasking and reducing the amount
of ’stuff’ you have? Do you live in a
100 square foot beach cabana? Too cheap to buy furniture? Here’s an idea – use your surfboard as a coffee table by night and a wave carving machine by day. This kit allows you to ...
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surfboard coffee table kit
mindzle.com - 45 hours ago
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The categories of eco friendly products have become
a lot more numerous and versatile with the increased
insistence on green lifestyles. If very few green products were available ten years ago, now we can shop for gift ideas, green services, organic foods, green gifts, green clothes and even ...
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Eco Friendly Products
mindzle.com - 45 hours ago
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Earth friendly products are goods and services that
don’t have a negative impact on the environment either
in the manufacturing process or the consume. Such items are easy to recognize by the eco-labels, nevertheless, not everybody will get the same exposure to earth friendly products. In ...
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Earth Friendly Products
retrohousewife05.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Go to any big box store and you
find a lot of air fresheners, candles, and all
kinds of things to make your home "smell like Christmas." But what's in those products? A lot of candles have lead wicks, the wax is made of a petroleum by product, and the fragrance oils can contain hormone ...
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The Smells Of Christmas
publicintegrity.org - 2 days ago
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is
a collaboration of some of the world's top investigative
reporters. Launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, ICIJ globally extends the Center's style of ...
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
borganic.org - 2 days ago
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(www.borganic.org) After reading about the forced vaccination of
a Brooklyn schoolgirl who ended up in the hospital,
many parents are concerned about how they might protect their own children from school-based vaccination schemes. To help parents protect their children, I've written a letter ...
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Parents: Send this note to your school principal to ...
ecorazzi.com - 2 days ago
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Bob Barker is stepping up to the plate
once again and getting involved in animal welfare issues.
Barker recently donated $1 million to Drury University to establish the Dorothy Jo Barker Professorship in Animal Rights. The program, which is named ...
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Bob Barker Donates $1 Million To University For ...
ecorazzi.com - 2 days ago
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Director Roland Emmerich’s new disaster movie 2012 is
about to hit theaters — and as the Mother
Nature Network recently found out, there was an effort to keep the $260 million dollar film as green as possible. Emmerich, who drives a ...
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‘2012′ Lastest Film To Recycle Sets, Offset Production
supereco.com - 2 days ago
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Preschoolers could care less about how safe and
sustainable a toy is. All that matters to them
is that a plaything sustains their gnat-sized attention span for more than a nanosecond. Why should they care? It's not their job to know that their favorite, lead poison-painted Bedtime Dora was ...
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Top 10 eco toys under $30
mnn.com - 2 days ago
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Want to meet Oprah backstage — or hang
out on Dustin Hoffman’s set for a day? Then
head over to the 6th annual Chevy Chase Green Auction to get your online bid in.
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Support green schools by bidding on a celeb
mnn.com - 2 days ago
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Most MNN readers already know to avoid the
toxic chemicals in many conventional cleaning products, but many
people are obviously still buying those less-than-green cleaning supplies from off the supermarket shelves.
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Toxic chemicals in school cleaners
alternativeconsumer.com - 2 days ago
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You got the ingredients mix wrong on that
DIY shampoo and now sport a hairstyle that’s been
kindly described as early “Telly Savalas”. The t-shirt quilt you’re creating chronicles your pathetic journey from Black Sabbath worshiper to Bon Jovi fanatic (it also contains 17 ...
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6 misguided DIY projects
supereco.com - 2 days ago
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Assess for us, if you would, the qualities
of this sustainable construction material: Bio-negative manufacturing (more carbon
dioxide is locked up in the process of growing and harvesting the component materials than is released during the production of the binding ingredient) 100% ...
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Restrictive laws wall off hemp bricks
worldchanging.com - 2 days ago
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Suzie Boss: Yak herders in Mongolia may seem
like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little
infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to...
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Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor ...
rebekahgreen.com - 2 days ago
alternativeconsumer.com - 2 days ago
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What time is it? Time to make a
clock out of your tired old computer’s hard drive.
This clock should appeal to computer freaks, geekery fans or anyone related to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. Made from the actual recycled remains of a dead computer. The clock’s quartz movement runs ...
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recycled computer hard drive clock
alternativeconsumer.com - 2 days ago
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Now here’s a toy for those rugged green
kids in your household. These natural wood building blocks
are made in Canada by Natural Pod. The blocks are created from kiln-dried, locally-sourced, renewable alder. The colorful, 10 piece set contains a bunch of unique pieces that come in ...
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Natural Pod tree branch building blocks
huffingtonpost.com - 2 days ago
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The Metropolitan Water District is considering two competing
projects to provide Southern California an extra fifty million
gallons of freshwater per day. These two projects, however, take very different approaches toward addressing the problem of ...
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Steve Fleischli: Getting More Out of the Men's Room
easyecoblog.com - 2 days ago
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A reminder that there is a 30% upto
$1500 Federal Tax Credit on Qualifying Windows, Doors, Storm
Windows, Storm Doors, and Skylights. If you have been thinking about replacing these items, you might as well upgrade now and save some money. Purchases made after 6/30/2009 must have U factor <= ...
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Federal Tax Credit on Windows, Doors, Skylights
greenlagirl.com - 2 days ago
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Why throw out that empty wine bottle —
when you could wear it down a fashion runway?
For artist Kathleen Plate , dumpster diving for old glass bottles is a frequent first step towards creating her upcycled chandeliers, glass wall ...
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Kathleen Plate’s recycled glass home collection: ...
organicmania.com - 2 days ago
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Every parent knows the rule. Fever-free without medication
for 24 hours. That’s the period of time during
which a parent is supposed to wait before sending Junior back to regularly scheduled activities after a bout with a fever. That’s the rule we followed. After running a temperature over the ...
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The Old 24-Hour-Rule? Not for Swine Flu!
mnn.com - 2 days ago
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For a special effects disaster movie costing in
the neighborhood of $200 million, 2012 is surprisingly green,
and as we reported last week, its producers won an EMA award for their eco-production efforts. We found out more at the movie’s Los ...
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Ecollywood: At the L.A. premiere of '2012'
mnn.com - 2 days ago
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NUCLEAR OPTION: Things are looking bleak for the
Senate's climate bill, the Washington Post reports today, despite
renewed efforts from the Obama administration and Senate Democrats in recent weeks to solidify support. Democrats are still deeply ...
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Daily Briefing: Mon.
yourdailythread.com - 3 days ago
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Skillets, Pots and Storage to keep your holiday
food healthy, green and chemical free.
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Healthy Holiday Cookware
greenupgrader.com - 3 days ago
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For most of us, winter is just around
the corner, or as is the case in my
Colorado town, you may have already experienced some of the ice and snow that make this season exciting and difficult all at the same time. Many people try to use alternative transportation in the Spring and Summer when ...
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4 Ways To Cut Over-Idling From Your Car’s Winter Routine



























