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Betty Jo
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 (93 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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Feature How to enjoy a cuppa
"I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time." Sidney Smith"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled… | Read the full article ›
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Feature How to green dorm life
Every September is an opportunity for a fresh start as students head back to school. It is important to remember that old adage "well begun is half done" when planning your green… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (193 days ago) 3 comments- Definitions
- Allergens, Fragrance, Gluten, Pollutants, Vampire appliances, VOC, Water filtration, Indoor air quality
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Feature How to increase consumer responsibility
According to Time author Brian Walsh, more than simply a case of penny-wise/pound foolish, the dangerous game of cheap food production is costing us--big time--both morally and… | Read the full article ›
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Feature How to eco-mitigate bed bugs
We are in the midst of the largest, most widespread, bed bug outbreak since WWII. This outbreak caused the EPA to hold a National Bed Bug Summit on April 14 and 15 in… | Read the full article ›
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Feature How to green your shopping
"For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged.… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (216 days ago) 1 comment- Definitions
- Animal testing, Carbon footprint, Carbon offset, Cruelty-free, Eco-friendly, Energy Star, Fair trade, Food, Locavore, Organic, Recycling
Betty Jo on The future of fuel, Grassoline
