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Consumers, Meet Producers: Abe's Market Lets Buyers Get to Know, Appreciate, Interact with Manufacturers
Do you ever wonder who makes the stuff you buy? Ever want that farmer's market feel, where you connect with the source of what you're buying, but for all the non-food goods in your life? That satisfaction is increasingly hard to
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MindBodyGreen Deals, the Groupon for Greenies
Groupon's pretty great for eco-bargain hunters like me-- in New York City, it has offered discounts on the likes of American Apparel, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and GustOrganics (as pictured above.) Not all of the sales stem from
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Do Your Shopping On Small Business Saturday
Dense, walkable, resilient towns and cities are a key component of getting off oil, and viable main street retail is the key to having vibrant main streets. For historic preservationists concerned about the fabric of our main streets, successful stores
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Oxfam Unwraps its Collection of Donation Gifts for the Holiday Season
The Friday after Thanksgiving, shoppers will—as they do every year—line up in front of stores, poised to descend en masse on the goods housed within. Some do it for the deals, others for the excitement, and some avoid it all together. The
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Make the Holidays More About Sharing and Less About Stuff
Yes. For so many of us, the holidays are nothing if not stressful. We worry
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Solving the Smashed Tomatoes Problem, Crowdsourcing the Perfect Shopping Bag
You remember your reusable shopping bags and schlepp them to the farmer's market, only to have some of those precious perishables crushed or damaged by the time you get home. Just last week, I lost part
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Super Gift: Buy an Arizona Landfill
We all get our share of e-mail spam. One that keeps showing up in my InBox offers the opportunity of a lifetime: Buy an Arizona landfill. Fill it up. The more waste you bury, the more money you make. For the
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Green Gift Monday is the New Black Friday
Black Friday is about crazy deals, waiting in line, excess spending, consumption, capitalism, you name it. Of course, there's nothing wrong with giving. But if you're going to give ('Tis the Season),
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A Kiss Lights Up This Christmas Tree
It's that time of year when Main Streets across the land turn on their Christmas lights, usually with a B-list celebrity on show for a kiss. Only this year at London's Covent Garden, the kiss will set off the lights.
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Green Gift Guide: The Design Junkie
Beauty is often a key component of luxury, but these holiday gift ideas have more than just a pretty face -- they're also savvy green additions to your home, your commute, and other important aspects of day-to-day life. Satisfy even the most particular
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Green Gift Guide: The Animal Lover
Who says walking on four legs instead of two means you can't enjoy the holidays? No matter what you wrap up for your favorite animal lover (or fluffy pal), nothing compares to a warm snuggle from a loving pet. From cats and dogs to giraffes, elephants,
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Green Gift Guide: The DIY'er
No matter where your skills (or lack of) lie, there's a DIY category for you. From crafting and building to biking and gardening, putting your own two hands to work is a rewarding way to save money and trim your carbon footprint. An added bonus: Taking
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Green Gift Guide: The Fashion Buff
From shimmering one-of-a-kind bangles of welded architectural scraps to lush cardigans made of vintage cashmere, fashion is full of small luxuries that can make something as routine as getting dressed the best part of your day.This holiday season, treat
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Green Gift Guide: The Kid
When it comes to holiday shopping, the kids should be the most fun to buy for -- but fighting other parents for the hottest toy only to see it break before breakfast on the day it's opened is hardly the way you want to spend your season. Instead, choose
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Green Gift Guide: The Green Geek
The techie in your life can be a tricky one to please -- with that pesky habit of being on 2.0 before the news even reaches you. Instead of giving your green geek gadgets for the holidays that will be obsolete before President's Day, invest in technolog
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Green Gift Guide: The Health and Wellness Guru
Why is it that we all need health and wellness help after the holidays? Inspire your friends and family to add small moments of relaxation and peace to their everyday activities with organic skincare treatments, yoga gear, nutrition-rich raw food meals,
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Green Gift Guide: The Outdoors Enthusiast
It's likely that the outdoors enthusiast is the person on your holiday gift list that cares the most about getting eco-friendly presents -- after all, you're helping protect his or her favorite playground: Mother Earth. From must-have gear for weekend a
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Green Gift Guide: The Pop Culture Fan
This week, we are rolling out 10 holiday gift guides packed with green gifts, and first up is for the giftees who know exactly what's on TV, in the theaters, or hot on the streets: Pop culture may seem flightly, but few things are more luxurious than losi
