Super Eco

Michael O'Connor Clarke

Member since 01/21/2009

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  Feature How to green your detergent usage

  The evolution of dish and clothing washers into lean, mean, less-soap-guzzling machines, makes it more important than ever that we begin to use less and less soap.The New York… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (4 days ago) 0 comments

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  Conservation, Consumerism, Eco-friendly, Energy Star, Greywater system, Recycling

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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 (13 days ago) 0 comments
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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 ›

  By Lucy Meskill (16 days ago) 0 comments

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  DIY, Recycling, Victory Garden, Organic, Upcycling, Reuse

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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 ›

  By Lucy Meskill (18 days ago) 2 comments

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  Air pollution, Allergens, Carcinogens, Fisheries impact, Habitat depletion, Habitat restoration, Herbicides, Soil contamination, Soil, Songbird-safe, Stewardship, Toxicity, Water table impact

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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 (98 days ago) 0 comments

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  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 (154 days ago) 2 comments

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  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 ›

  By Lucy Meskill (178 days ago) 1 comment
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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 (197 days ago) 3 comments

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  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 ›

  By Lucy Meskill (209 days ago) 4 comments

  Definitions

  Animal testing, Biodiversity, Cage-free, Carbon footprint, Climate change, Conservation, Consumerism, Cruelty-free, Eco-education, Fair wage, Fisheries impact, Free range, Greenhouse effect, Greenhouse gas, Habitat depletion, Organic, Sustainable

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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 ›

  By Lucy Meskill (213 days ago) 0 comments