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Green Meals on Wheels: Green Truck Delivers Green Food to Los Angeles
If hungry for lunch in LA, you have to find out where to go by checking Twitter for location updates. Yesterday, for example, had this: Wed, 6/17 Green
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Stronger, Greener Fishing Lures: Why Didn't We Think of That
Fishing itself seems so benign (other than killing fish), with just you and mother nature standing idly by for hours on end. What could be wrong with that? Well, all of those lures add up to 25 million pounds of lures left at
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Vegan Footwear - Cowhugger Walk with Me
Photo from Modesto Junior College MooShoes, Inc. is a vegan-owned business that sells an assortment of cruelty-free footwear, bags, t-shirts, wallets, books (mainly cookbooks) and other accessories. It is the first cruelty-free store of its kind in New
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Why Choose Compostable If It's Still Going in a Landfill?
These days everything says eco-friendly, natural, biodegradable, and compostable (not to mention a myriad of other mysterious environmental words. Sounds good, right? But is it worth spending the extra couple of bucks if the item
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Twist Turns Cleaning Natural
Okay, I hate cleaning. But I like things clean. Also, I like stuff to last, so I don’t have to buy more, since I hate shopping, too. Yesterday, I wrote about eco-efficient household tips from Haley’s Hints Green Edition. Those old-fashioned ways of
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SunChips to Introduce Completely Compostable Bags
In a fine example of a major corporation taking a solid eco-friendly stride, SunChips has announced that by 2010, the company will begin selling their snacks in compostable
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Bottled Water Launches Latest Eco-Friendly Packaging
Just when you thought it was time for bottled water to fizzle out, a slew of "new and improved" waters continue to hit the market, laced with
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Build Your Own Worm Bin: The Enviromentals (Video)
Image credit: Center for Sustainable Living DIY Worm Composting Explained - Hilarious Video I've been pretty public about my obsessions with compost - from my experimenting with high fiber composting to composting my house move. Heck, my wife and I have
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UNCUT felt slippers by Amor de Madre
Today we came across these funky house slippers called UNCUT, made from 100% natural felt and designed by Ernest Perera.It has been a while since we wrote about Amor de Madre, mother love in Spanish, who design and distribute unconventional and mostly
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Biodegradable Bed Pans - The Latest in Green Hospital Gear
Yep, biodegradable bed pans are just one thing that hospitals can add to their repertoire to not only green the building but keep you healthy when you're feeling less than stellar. Okay so biodegradable bed pans are neither here
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Clean Tech Forum 2009: Earthcycle Snaps Up Palm Waste for Paper Products
If you shop at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Safeway or a few similar places, you'll notice that the produce is unnecessarily packaged. Turns out that an eeeensy bit of the frustration felt at that fact can be shaved away by another fact. Many of those
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Amuse Yourself and Your Cat With Biodegradable Kit-A-Loons
I don't have pets anymore; I have children instead, and they generate even more of a carbon footprint than cats' carbon paw print. But back in the days when I was a cat-lover, I would have loved a hilarious and practical cat toy like Kit-A-Loons.
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Can Stretch Fabric Be Compostable? Rohner Textil Think So
Last year we were approached by a designer wanting to develop a line of sustainable swimwear. We observed that one very tricky element would be doing away with the stretch element: elastane or spandex, what most of us more
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Vaso 2.0, a Flowerpot Made From Cork
The Home Project, a design studio based between Berlin and Portugal, have surprised us before with their curious choice for materials; egg cups made from salt, and speakers made from cork. Wonderfully simple, fully biodegradable and renewable is what we
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Mexico To Enforce Trash Separation
Since 2004, the Mexico City government has been trying to convince residents to separate their trash for recycling and composting purposes. An ambitious solid waste law requires residents and businesses to separate organic waste from inorganic trash.
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A Greener Hand Sanitizer for Cold Season?
With cold season in full swing it would be nice to be able to squirt some sanitizer on your hands and avoid a cold for the whole year. Well, that's just not possible. But in a pinch, parents love to use this stuff to prevent the
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Biomimicry Yields Bone-Healing Superglue from Sea Worms
Broken bone? Soon, you'll be able to have the break superglued back together, all thanks to sandcastle worms and biomimicry. Researchers at the University of Utah have been inspired by the
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Georgia Eco-Cemetery Lets Your Family Dig Your Own Grave
We've been early reporters of the trend for greener end-of-life ceremonies and traditions, including green burials and How to Green Your Funeral.
