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Useful doesn’t have to be ordinary. The soil in your garden is coming to life after the winter and you may be thinking about planting. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have organic compost on hand? I know that organic compost…
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Create a healthy home. When I go to the cleaning products aisles in the market to buy natural, earth- friendly products, new brands with claims of healthiness and purity are overwhelming. I completely forget which brands I like, which are…
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Second Batch of Some Fun Plant-Based Recipes from Guest Writer Paige Host. Hello again, and welcome back to Paige (and Steven’s) kitchen! Steven helped me cut and prepare the spaghetti squash for two of the recipes, and he ended up…
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Activities and Educational Opportunities for the Kids. (Air-Worldwide – linked in the image) The next generation will feel the heat, literally and figuratively. Waters are rising, storms are becoming more powerful and destructive, and the planet is getting hotter….
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Wipe up, wash, repeat – no waste. I just tried to order paper towels and was limited to one package. Disposable paper towels are becoming as scarce as they were last winter. Subscriber Susan G reminded me about unpaper towels. …
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More plastic in the oceans than fish? One third of the garbage in U.S. landfills is from plastic packaging and containers. The global beauty and cosmetic industry produce 120 billion units of packaging annually. The cardboard inside the plastic packaging…
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The Environmental Impact You Didn’t Know You Had. I recently read Tatiana Schlossberg’s new book Inconspicuous Consumption – the environmental impact you didn’t know you had. A Yale and Oxford graduate, Ms. Schlossberg has written on climate change for The…
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What if buildings didn’t consume 40% of all fossil fuels used in the U.S.? A zero net energy building is a building in which the total energy consumed over time is equal to the amount of renewable energy created by…
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Your carbon footprint called, and asked to be reduced. What is carbon footprint? It is the amount of total emissions (carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane) emitted to support human activities. Carbon footprints measure direct emissions of…
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