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Guide to Good Grub in Minneapolis - St. Paul
Do you have to slide on your values when you want to eat a nice meal out on the town? Are you in a smaller town and figure there's not much but fast food around you? How do you find a restaurant that is able
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For the Founders of Guayaki the Future isn't Just in the Tea Leaves
We've talked about Guayaki, a company focused on bringing premium Yerba Mate to the North American market, several times before. Their business, which encourages local communities to reforest threatened rainforest areas
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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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Spring 2010 Fashion Preview: Everlasting Hope's Jumpsuit Shorts, T-Shirt Dresses, and More
Having just warmed up to my Autumn staple -- the blazer -- I'm wishing I could spring ahead to Spring/Summer 2010 fashion for Everlasting Hope's collection of casual
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Newsweek Ranks America's Greenest Companies
It wasn't easy. In fact, Newsweek's Deputy Editor Kathy Deveny admits that if she knew how hard it would be, she probably wouldn't have. But what's done is done: Newsweek spent more than a year vetting the 500 biggest companies in America and ranking
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Patrick Swayze's Green Legacy, Emma Watson's Sustainable Fashion, and More
A lot's been said about Patrick Swayze this week, and whether you'll miss him most for his Point Break action scenes, his Ghost-era clay-sculpting, his Chippendales Saturday Night Live skit with Chris Farley, or the irreplaceable
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Woolworth's Heir Opens Eco General Store
Image via: Priscilla Woolworth.com Priscilla Woolworth, fourth generation heir of famed Woolworth's stores, has opened her own eco-store, now available on the web. While the items aren't anything extraordinary (in fact, you can even buy Bon Ami on the
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Men's Green Fashion Guide: Suits and Dress Jackets
C'mon get snappy! If you're looking to clean up in a hurry, you can do worse than suiting up with a sharp-looking dress jacket (tie optional, pants highly recommended). Wool options abound, as do vintage and preloved togs, but
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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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Miksani Goes Carbon Neutral, Lets Customers Track Their Impact
A company hopping on the carbon-neutral route isn't newsworthy these days—and that's a GOOD thing—but Miksani (née Miksa) is allowing its customers to qualify their purchases by tracking their impact online.
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Organic Maternity Lingerie: Is That Even Possible?
Looking for something soft and silky to wear to bed but feeling like there are not many options out there? And, you want it to be organic? Well, that used to be something of a challenge. Not anymore, thanks to Peau-Ethique and
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Daily Deals from Guffly.com
Hot on the heels of Ecosteal.com is the new Guffly.com, which claims that it just might be the "lovechild of eco-friendly and style." Daily deals on green items are just a click away. Guffly Team. Image via: Guffly.com
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Nike's Trashy Sneakers: Top Honors at Design Awards
Trash Shoes Can Dunk Nike's Trash Talk basketball shoe is just as high-performing as its best shoes -- it can play in the NBA -- but it's made from leftover leather and synthetic leather, foam, and rubber. And it just won Best in Show at the annual
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EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Stewart + Brown Fall 2009 Collection (Slideshow)
When Howard Brown of Stewart + Brown asked TreeHugger if we wanted to break the news of the label's freshly shipped fall 2009 collection, including never-before-seen photos, it took every ounce of self-control not to
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Peau-Ethique "Charmes" With New Eco Lingerie
Photo credit: Peau-Ethique Eco-undies tend to swing between two extremes: blah-blah boring and straight-up skanky—not that we have a problem with the latter, it's just that some of us would rather not spend our workdays picking at ill-positioned slivers
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Adam Werbach on the Burst of the Green Bubble (Part Two)
Image via Saatchi and Saatchi S Greenwashing, says Adam Werbach, has run its course and is on the verge of finally dying off. This message comes from the citadel of green marketing, Saatchi & Saatchi S, of which Werbach is now chief. The death of
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Spring/Summer Fashion 2009: Mountains of the Moon
Photo credit: Mountains of the Moon Mountains of the Moon's Melissa Baswell crafts timeless pieces that are classic rather than trendy, comfy without being crunchy, and at price points that won't have you scrambling to hawk vital organs for a wide-leg
