Tag: Chocolate - Page 3
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Declaring our love for the Best Green Valentines Around the Blogosphere
Love is the air as Valentine's Day approaches this weekend. And while we regularly show our appreciation for all the other amazing green bloggers out there on TH Blog Love, at this time of year it seems even more appropriate to declare our feelings!
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Valentine's Day Gift Guide: How Green Is Your Love?
Whether you're a longtime duo marking a milestone anniversary this year, a pair of starry-eyed newlyweds still in honeymoon mode, or one-half of a brand new couple facing your first Valentine's Day, it's time to start making plans
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Wintermarket Wonderland at the Seaport
Hundreds of people weathered the blizzard last Sunday to support New Amsterdam's Wintermarket in lower Manhattan. The New Amsterdam Market is not your
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Kit Kat Goes Fairtrade
Kit Kat is the best selling chocolate bar in the UK, with 1 billion sold annually. So when Nestle decides to make it Fairtrade, it is a big deal, and sweet news. Starting in January all of the four-finger bars will be made with
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Mars Boasts Largest Solar Array in New Jersey
The largest solar array on a food manufacturing plant that is. The Mars Chocolate North America Headquarters building now has 18 acres worth of solar panels offsetting all of those chocolatey emissions. The project, which was
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DIY Superfood Chocolates: Good and Good for You, Too?
I'm a total fan of chocolate. The taste, its antioxidant properties, and the endorphin benefits. And when the organic cacao butter treats come with goji berries, gooseberries, and cacao nibs, the chocolate seems like a healthful holistic remedy. With
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Urban Moonshine Suggests Adding Traditional Bitters to Your Healthy, Holiday Cocktails
So you've tried organic beers, wines and spirits, but still need something to liven up your weekly routine, or something to give your traditional drink an extra kick when served to guests this holiday season? Urban Moonshine
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Could Giving Children Candy Turn Them into Criminals?
Everyone knows that eating too many sweets is bad for our teeth, but could giving candy to children lead to delinquency later in life? A new study, to be published in next month's British Journal of Psychiatry, claims
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7 Food Certification Programs You Need to Eat Green
Labels on food items are as numerous as the aisles they're sold in, and many proclaim that they're helping you be healthy, helping the planet, or both. The truth is that there are myriad labels out there that
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Maca Miracle Bars: The Next Acai or Goji Berry?
I got the sense after picking up the sample of Maca bars that this could be the next miracle "food" popping up on the market. That is, if we're not already too burnt out by "miracle foods." I sampled a few of these Potent Life
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5 Calorie-Free Organic Chocolate Skincare Treats (You Won't Gain a Pound, We Promise!)
Chocolate may be soul food, but skin food? The concept isn't as far-fetched as you might think. Packed with a raft of wrinkle-battling antioxidants--twice as much as that in red wine and up to three times those found in green
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Your Choice of Chocolate Matters (Slideshow)
Crack open a cacao pod and this is what you get: a wet, gooey, sticky (but tasty) mess. You can get this two ways: clearing rainforest, adding weedkillers, planting hybrid plants, and selling it cheap to the middlemen. Or, you can grow it more
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Vanishing Creatures Chocolates Feature Zero-Waste Packaging With Bonus Surprise
When you've been reporting about sustainability in design as long as we have, well, jaded doesn't even begin to cover it. So it's no small feat when something rocks our proverbial socks off as much as
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No Nutritional Value? Top 5 organic food stories of the week
The organic apple cart was upset this week when the UK Food Standards Agency released the results of their research into the nutritional benefits of organic food. According to the FSA there aren't any, or least none that are 'important'! Unsurprisingly
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Camel Milk Chocolate Bars are Sexy and Healthy and Strange
"Midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed," was an oldie, and it's about to come back into its own as camel milk chocolate bars are soon to hit the scene. The benefits: they are organic, healthy and good for your sex life.
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Naturally Nora Now Bakes Brownies
Hot on the heels of our Naturally Nora's Homemade Cake and Cupcake Mixes article comes the announcement that Nora's latest creation is...brownies! That had our minds reeling, especially when she said that 25 lucky
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Naturally Nora's Homemade Cupcakes Are Fun and Tasty. And They've Got Sprinkles.
How could we resist sampling the new Naturally Nora cake mix, thanks to a tip from our friends at Daily Candy? Did we mention they have sprinkles? From the guilt-free kitchen of Naturally Nora comes fun in a box with these new
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D.R. Congo's Sustainable Cacao Industry (Slideshow)
We've told you about Original Beans a couple of times. We first wrote about their quest to become the first truly transparent chocolate company by basing their pricing on the true cost of sustainable chocolate production. The
