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5 Unknown Green Jobs & Why They're Important
When you think of green jobs what comes to mind? Solar panel installer, wind turbine parts manufacturer, energy efficiency consultant, ecosystem restoration specialist? Those are all certainly parts of a future green economy,
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Reusable Coffee Cozies: Upcycled, DIY, and Silicone Sleeves Reduce Cardboard
Yeah, its best to bring your own ceramic mug with a handle to the café to fill your cup with coffee or tea, but when it's left at home and you're in line waiting for your fair trade
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Starbucks Makes Big Investment in Fair Trade
We love our Small-Marts, independent bookstores, locally owned coffee shops. But you can't get around the fact that when the big boys like Walmart or Starbucks make a move, it has impact. We also love Fair Trade, and you can't get
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100 Green Uses for Common, Everyday Products
The average household has products for just about every condition or problem known to man or woman. A crème for pimples, a syrup for coughs, a capsule for headaches, a liquid for bugs. It has got to the point where folks need
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Coffee Sack Baskets Break New Grounds With Old Materials
We love it when old objects tell new stories, which is what happened when Maya of Maya*made took discarded burlap coffee sacks and reimagined them into buckets for corralling all manner of household and desktop knick
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A Cuff For Your Wrist...And Coffee Cup
The Coffee Cuff by Veer ($65) is a twofer in terms of style and function: Not only is it a chic accessory for your wrist, but it's also a wrapper for your coffee cup, so you can dispense with the disposable cardboard sleeve without
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Cute "Sipping Sleeves" Keep Hands Cool, But Keep Us Hooked on Unsustainable Cups
Nichole Oppenheim saw a problem - people adding those paper jackets to their daily latté paper cups. It was not only wasteful, she felt, but unnecessary. Cardboard sleeves, says one web site, can add up to 10 lbs of extra waste to your personal garbage
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Larry's Beans Offers Discount On Any Bag of Coffee
Dang That Coffee Tastes Sweet! Can't afford a Tesla Roadster? Console yourself with today's TreeHugger Deal from Larry's Beans, a company that has delicious fairly traded, organically grown coffees. The coffee beans are slow roasted in ridiculously
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Fair-Trade Coffee, Coming To a Dorm Near You
Two creative Bethel College students recently opened a fair trade coffee shop in the lounge of their dorm building. The shop is so new (and so trendy) that it doesn't even have a name yet. Seth Dunn and Lisa Penner, both Fresno, CA
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Quitting Coffee is One of the Easiest Ways to Help The Planet and Yourself
Coffee is the 2nd most traded commodity after oil. Some claim that coffee has health benefits while others claim that it is an addictive substance that taxes the body's adrenal glands, depositing adrenaline daily into
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Shade-Grown Coffee Protects Tree Biodiversity
We know that shade-grown coffee is much easier on the environment than sunny coffee plantations. They require less fertilizer, prevent soil erosion, require fewer or zero pesticides, the list goes on. NPR's Science Friday has
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Coffee Could Power Your Car, As Well As Wake You Up in the Morning
You may know that coffee is the world's second most traded commodity—a stat undoubtedly given a boost by the great caffeinated blogging legion—but, according to researchers in Nevada coffee could be doubly valuable: For use as
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The TH Interview: Fred Pearce--Confessions of An Eco-Sinner (Part Two)
Despite his own confessions, Pearce isn't here to preach. He'd rather people make up their own minds about what to buy and what to snub. In the second part of our interview, the author of Confessions of an Eco-Sinner tells more tales from his
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Give Groovy Gifts and Save 10% from The Groovy Mind
This week's TreeHugger Deals comes to you from The Groovy Mind, a company that's known for their groooovy, gourmet gifts. Each is deliciously organic, fairly traded and seasonally harvested and includes coffee (one of our faves), tea, cookies and
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The TH Interview: Fred Pearce--Confessions of An Eco-Sinner (Part One)
Ever get curious? "Where was my computer put together, who picked my coffee beans, what about the gold in my wedding ring?" We recall when Fred Pearce set out to find the answers, a journey that took him around the world seven times. Confessions of An
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From the Forums: Coffee Cups?
We are having a debate about coffee cups in our church as we try to "go green."
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Time For Canadians to Boycott Tim Hortons
Two weeks ago I stopped at the Timmys just south of Gravenhurst, shown above, and walked to the edge of their parking lot with the puppy. Two feet beyond the edge of their own parking lot was this view.
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Healthy Halloween Tips, Starbucks' Fill of Fair Trade and Eco-Savvy Holidays
Too much of a good thing (like fair trade, organic and homemade Halloween treats) can still be a bad thing. See how to prevent your kids--and yourself--from OD'ing on sugar this Halloween.
