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Reusable Shopping Bags Support NOLA
Designed in New Jersey, sourced and manufactured in New Orleans; these reusable shopping bags support Americans as well as a green lifestyle, with emphasis on style. "What'S ur Bag" was dreamed up by
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Washington State Farm Markets Booming
This one's all good news. Farm markets are growing at an unprecedented rate across the US State of Washington, which now has over 100 of them. In metro areas, every neighborhood wants one. The latest trend is to go year-round:The West Seattle Farmers
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Eating Local Food: The Movement, Locavores and More
The local food movement, eating local, being on the "100 mile diet" or being a locavore are all synonymous with local food, whose consumption has risen to prominence as an
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Petrol Stain Arrives to Patagonia for New Year, Nobody Responsible Yet
What a way to end up the year: a petrol stain four kilometers long arrived last Thursday to the coast of Caleta Cordova City at Chubut province, about 1860 kilometers south from Buenos Aires and is now moving open seas.
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The Abundance Foundation: Is There Anything (Good) these Folks Won't Do?
The environmental world is not short of a non-profit or two, as witnessed by the impressive list of organizations to support in our 2007 Gift Guide. You might be forgiven, then, for wondering why we need any more, but the fact is that there are millions
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Two Years Ago In TreeHugger: Alternate Energy and Yogourt
Ruben complained "no one knows how to do anything anymore. We can’t understand, let alone repair, most of the gadgets we use everyday. We increasingly eat packaged and pre-made food; even organic food often comes wrapped in plastic. We don’t know how
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Is Fresh and Local always Greener?
We have been discussing this for years, and Andrew Martin of the New York Times jumps into the fray noting a new California study (from the state that produces most
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Top 10 Farmers Markets in USA
Where can you learn what to do with "underappreciated produce"? And where can you get fish once reserved only for royalty? Find out in this month's issue of green*light which takes readers on a tour of the top 10 farmers markets in the USA. If you
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Preserves Become Ideology in a Jar
Good article by Leslie Scrivener about how canning your own food is becoming a political act.
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Farmer's Markets Are So Over
Where we live the market has twice as many people, including well-dressed matrons who push to the front of the line and say "I want all of it!" Vendors who buy retail from other vendors who still have stock and resell at a higher price, because with the
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Survey: Do you go to Farmers' Markets?
Farmers markets are appearing everywhere this year; where we live, last year there were two near us; this year there are five new ones. Last year there were produce jockeys who would buy vegetables at the big wholesale food terminal, dress up in overalls
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Farmers Markets: Great, But Still Not Perfect
This author, diligent TreeHugger that he is, has just returned from his local farmers’ market. As always, there was an abundant array of delicious and beautiful local produce on display. However, we were also struck by two things – an awful lot of
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Australian Community Foods - Eating Locally
A friend came visiting the other day, proffering this bag of goodies. But they weren't for me — she just wanted to borrow my fridge! On the way over, she'd observed a Farmers Market and couldn't resist stopping in, to pick up some fresh
