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Drink Bottles Recycled Today in Times Square will be Converted into a School Garden (UPDATE)

Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.
20 Ways to Reuse Coffee Grounds and Tea Leaves

From soothing burns to removing odors, coffee grounds and tea leaves have more than one life. Give them a productive reincarnation in any of these applications.
Fair Trade Chocolate, Tea, Spice and Coffee Sales Jump 75 Percent, Study Says

Chocolate, tea and more goodies partner with Fair Trade USA which expands farming programs and experiences record sales.
Bengal, Assam Tea Production Slashed By Worst Drought in 15 Years

Another effect of weather weirding: Higher tea prices coming? Northeast India tea production expected to drop 60% in 2012 this year.
State of Maine Bans Use Of LEED In State Construction

The Governor gives a Christmas Present to the status-quo lumber industry
The Week in Animal News: Miracle Pando Poo Tea, Another Rhino Species Officially Extinct, and More

Can panda poo prevent cancer? We also have sad rhino news, fish lawnmowers, and more.
Tea Fertilized with Panda Poop Will Cost $36,000 Per Pound and (Maybe) Prevent Cancer

A new tea set to become the world's most expensive is being fertilized with panda feces, and is touted as having cancer-preventing properties.
Majesteas are the Perfect Hostess Gift

You are visiting a cottage, you have to bring something and you want it to be nice. What to do?
10 Fair Trade Tea Brands With Smart Sustainable Practices (Slideshow)

Tea is one of the healthiest, most versatile drinks on the planet -- whether hot or iced, black or green, chai or ooling, loose or bagged, it's an herbal shot of antioxidants and cancer-fighters that you can enjoy all year with
10 Fair Trade Tea Brands With Smart Sustainable Practices

Tea is one of the healthiest, most versatile drinks on the planet -- whether hot or iced, black or green, chai or ooling, loose or bagged, it's an herbal shot of antioxidants and cancer-fighters that you can enjoy all year with nothing but water. Make s
7 To-Go Coffee Mugs For Green Hot Beverages

Dear coffee (and afternoon hot chocolate, and commute-home latte, and after-dinner tea) addicts: We know its hopeless, you can't put that hot beverage down.
Alternative Home Remedy: Peppermint Oil to Relieve IBS

We 'Huggers with our aspiring clean, fiber-rich diets probably aren't as likely to experience the daily (yikes!) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) that some millions of Americans do, according to The New York Times.
Assam Tea Taste Being Altered by Climate Change - Crop Yields Dropping, Too

Oh no! If you're a tea lover like this TreeHugger then some reporting from The Guardian comes as doubly dire news: Apparently climate change is both reducing crop yields of India's Assam tea and changing its
Last Minute Gift Idea? Try a BPA-Free Tea Maker

Today was the perfect day to try out my Takeya tea maker: it's snowing out, I'd rather be cozied up in bed with a good book, and I'm pretty close to putting some USB-heated gloves on. So the perfect cup of hot tea seemed like a smart
Ask Pablo: Electric Kettle, Stove, or Microwave Oven?

Whether you are making tea or cooking pasta, knowing which of these three options is the most efficient way to boil
Green Holiday Gift Guide: The Health and Wellness Guru (Slideshow)

We'd all like to be a little healthier--especially around the holidays, when food, drink, and merriment leave us a little less svelte. Help the health nut on your list get out of the fitness rut with natural rubber exercise gear; stay hydrated with
Green Gift Guide: The Health and Wellness Guru

You don't have to be a health nut to appreciate the benefits of gifts free of toxins, synthetic chemicals, BPA, and phthalates--think paraben-free lip gloss or filter-your-own water bottles. We even have solutions for that one person who always answers yo
Numi Introduces First Organic Puerh Teas in the U.S.

It's true what they say about hybrid vigor. Case in point: Numi Organic's new Chocolate Puerh blend, which fuses Mayan ingenuity with China's beverage par excellence to produce a scintillating concoction that, despite the