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Feature How to foster green biodiversity
In 1894 John Muir wrote: "When California was wild, it was one sweet bee-garden throughout its entire length, north and south, and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (9 days ago) 0 comments -
Feature How to green your pocket garden
If a small plot is your plight, fear not for, it's pocket gardening to the rescue! Taking a lesson from good old mother nature, who can send up a shoot of something green through… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (12 days ago) 0 comments -
Feature How to keep your garden green
The frog was not talking about his garden when he sang "it's not easy being green" he was talking about his soul. Cultivating a green soul is not always easy but it is more worth… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (14 days ago) 1 comment -
REAL Gardens: Why school gardeners reap more than they sow
Will allowing kids to literally sink their hands into learning in school gardens turn them into illiterate farmhands? According to Caitlin Flanagan in a new article at The… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (58 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Victory Garden, Sustainable, Organic, Composting, Locavore
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Best air-scrubbing houseplants
Did you know that houseplants can remove toxic pollutants from the air in your home? It's not that they merely scrub away bad smells or mask stale air. Numerous studies have shown… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (67 days ago) 1 comment- Definitions
- Indoor air quality, Toxicity, VOC, Air pollutants, Pollutants
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Feature How to green your drinking water
“Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.”Jean Giraudoux… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (94 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Conservation, Eco-activism, EPA, Pollutants, Recycling
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Feature How to green your fall clean up
"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right." David… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (150 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Allergens, Composting, Recycling
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Blog Action Day 09: 5 easy ways to personally protect our climate
The bad news about climate change: Let's be honest; It's an overwhelming, omnipresent (hot) cloud looming precariously over us all. To reverse it feels like an impossible goal at… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (150 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Climate change, Greenhouse gas, Greenhouse effect, Water table impact, Conservation, Composting, Energy Star, Renewable energy
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- ecorazzi.com (1 comment)
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What NOT to curbside recycle
You're only a decade or two late, Lakewood City Council members. Bring on the curbside recycling containers already! Hold on. They already are. Pinch me! Lakewood is finally… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (160 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Recycling, Post-consumer recycled, Plastic recycling codes, Conservation, Toxicity, battery
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- green.yahoo.com (136 comments)
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Feature How to grow a vertical vegetable garden
Vertical vegetable victory garden, I dare you to say that ten times fast! It seems that really good ideas never go completely out of fashion and windowsill gardening is one of… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (238 days ago) 4 comments- Definitions
- Carbon footprint, Composting, Heirloom plant, Locavore, Organic, Slow Food, Sustainable, Victory Garden
How to foster green biodiversity
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