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  Driving, diet habits hardest to change

  Know what bugs me? Those sanctimonious "green" pretenders who carry reusable bags around in their car trunks (but never remember to bring them into the store), buy bamboo sheets… | Read the full article ›

  By Lisa Poisso (5 days ago) 0 comments

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  Greenwashing, Eco-friendly, Sustainable

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  Which foods and supplements really work?

  Snake oil or science? Food for a healthy life ... or merely food for thought? End confusion over contradictory research with this balloon chart showing the scientific evidence for… | Read the full article ›

  By Lisa Poisso (9 days ago) 0 comments

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  Greenwashing

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  International Women's Day 2010

  March 8th is International Women's Day  a day on which hundreds of events that celebrate women occur all around the world. For so many women green is the color of choice,… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (10 days ago) 0 comments
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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 (11 days ago) 0 comments
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  Fish oil supplements packed with PCBs

  Looks like there's something fishy about some of the most popular brands of fish oil supplements. A lawsuit filed in California earlier this week claims that many leading fish oil… | Read the full article ›

  By Lisa Poisso (12 days ago) 0 comments

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  Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), Carcinogens, Mercury

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  E-readers better for fun than for studies

  When it comes to hitting the books, college students prefer to keep hitting the books—this, according to a new study on replacing traditional textbooks with e-readers.… | Read the full article ›

  By Lisa Poisso (14 days ago) 0 comments

  Companies

  Amazon

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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 (14 days ago) 0 comments

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

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  3,163 reasons to mistrust a label reading "fragrance"

  We're all aware that certain seemingly innocent-sounding words on product labels hide some not-so-innocent ingredients (phthalates, parabens ...). What we may not all have realized… | Read the full article ›

  By Lisa Poisso (15 days ago) 0 comments

  Companies

  Environmental Working Group

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  Toxicity, Parabens, Phthalate, Fragrance

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  Rising temperatures will rocket the price of coffee

  I daresay that climate change naysayers will be forced to sit up and take notice when the price of their beloved java rises through the ceiling, roof and beyond. Eventually we all… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (15 days ago) 2 comments

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  Global

  Web News

  fa-mag.com , grist.org , news.yahoo.com , Green on HuffingtonPost.com (160 comments) 

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  Estethica takes sustainable fashion by storm

  It might not be the epicenter of London's fashion week (yet!), but estethica is definitely the "heart" of sustainable, ethical style. The ethical fashion event, now in its seventh… | Read the full article ›

  By Lisa Poisso (30 days ago) 1 comment

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  Sustainable

  Web News

  strawberryearth.com , ecofashionworld.com