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Patricia McAdie
Features I Like
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Feature How to green your swearing
In a University study published on July 13th in NeuroReport, researchers at Keele University's School of Psychology in England, found 68 student volunteers willing to place their… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (406 days ago) 5 comments- Definitions
- Recycling
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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 (410 days ago) 6 comments- Definitions
- Carbon footprint, Composting, Heirloom plant, Locavore, Organic, Slow Food, Sustainable, Victory Garden
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Feature How to green your pets
"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed." Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI am not alone in being unable to enumerate the ways in which my life has been enriched by the… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (428 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Allergens, Insecticide, Respiratory health, Toxicity, Clean drinking water
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Feature How to plan a winter vegetable garden
"Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting..."William WordsworthI know what you are thinking--wait, it's not even summer… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (458 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Organic, Victory Garden
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Feature How to stay balanced, green and happy
"If you're going through hell, keep going."Winston Churchill"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (478 days ago) 3 comments- Definitions
- Consumerism, Recycling
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Feature How to optimize weeds in your garden
In organically managed gardening and farming systems, weed control does not mean weed eradication. A weed is often defined as a plant out of place, a plant whose benefits we… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (486 days ago) 5 comments- Definitions
- Pesticides, Invasive pests, Soil erosion
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Feature How to enjoy Super Eco group on flickr
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."Diane Arbus "Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (487 days ago) 0 comments -
Feature How to hone your eco-intuition
Developing smart eco-sense is essential in this pivotal age. By this I mean developing an emotional framework in our own lives which encompasses environmental awareness at its most… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (496 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Greenwashing
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Feature How to relax and be gluten free
This--How to--will serve as an intro to what I hope will be an ongoing dialogue on Super Eco about the journey that so many people are on towards a happily gluten free life. Going… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (498 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Carbon footprint, Carbon diet
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Feature How to green your laundry care
Dry cleaning does not necessarily prolong the life of your clothing. In fact, over dry cleaning and unnecessary laundering of clothing can wear out your clothing faster. Here are… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (521 days ago) 7 comments
News I Like
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Can we bag our bag habits?
"Single use plastic bags which choke marine life, should be banned or phased out rapidly everywhere. There is simply zero justification for manufacturing them anymore, anywhere,"… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (409 days ago) 2 comments -
Windowsill allotment gardens
In an effort to inspire sustainability in its urban areas, the UK's National Trust has launched an initiative to challenge citizens to grow some of their own food. Windowsill… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (410 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Sustainable, Food, Victory Garden
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Trees inspire green innovations
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (434 days ago) 4 comments- Definitions
- Air, Alternative energy, Photovoltaic, Pollutants, Carbon footprint, Solar power
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The little habits that add up
We admit it: here at Super Eco, we sweat the small stuff. We're honestly not nitpickers—but come on, some eco-friendly moves are so small! The beauty of small eco-friendly… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (435 days ago) 4 comments- Definitions
- Eco-friendly, Sustainable
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San Francisco's new recycling rules
San Francisco's comprehensive recycling rules are about to get stricter and will include composting for everyone. I say, bring it on. Zero waste by 2020--if it can be done, San… | Read the full article ›
By Judith Meskill (446 days ago) 7 comments- Definitions
- Composting, Recycling, Zero waste
- Web News
- nytimes.com
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Next generation holds our green future
Guess who's got it goin' on in the green world, better than any of us? Yeah, that's right. Our kids. Kids know instinctively that the better way to be is the way that is… | Read the full article ›
By Karen Murphy (487 days ago) 6 comments- Companies
- World Wildlife Fund
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- Sustainable, Recycling, Factory farm
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Urban birdwatching takes off
Pigeons, and lots of 'em. That's what we think of when we think about city birds. Pigeons and sparrows. But birders everywhere have discovered that urban environments are great… | Read the full article ›
By Karen Murphy (497 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Heat island effect, Climate change, Greenbelt
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Un-bottle is still bottled water
Aside from cutting out cheeseburgers, never buying coffee to-go, and trying to grow veggies, my other huge challenge is skipping bottled water. When I see those Costco flats of… | Read the full article ›
By Rachael Brownell (522 days ago) 7 comments- Definitions
- Bisphenol-A (BPA), Carbon footprint, Additives
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5 reasons to love oatmeal
Confession: I could eat oatmeal daily and never tire of it. Does that sound weird to you? Then maybe you're remembering oatmeal as that unpleasant gloppy stuff—a double for… | Read the full article ›
By Karen Murphy (523 days ago) 4 comments- Definitions
- Organic
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Lights out for tonight's Earth Hour
Breakout the board games, candles and massage oil (we'll explain that last one in a sec). Don't forget, Earth Hour is tonight and that means lights out at 8:30 p.m. sharp, wherever… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (524 days ago) 5 comments- Definitions
- Conservation, Carbon diet, Carbon footprint, LED lighting, Vampire appliances, Light Pollution, Electronic equipment
Patricia McAdie on Plastic bag bans, gaining ground