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Shine FoodCharcoal is out. What's in - and Eco?
If you're still grilling with charcoal, I've only got one question for you: Why?
- Healthy Living
Need Help Getting Inspired for 2011? Learn From These Great Green Role Models.
What environmental lifestyle shifts are you planning for 2011? If you still haven't been able to make up your mind, take a minute to read about the folks below. In the last couple of weeks in December 2010, they all answered the question, "What's Been Your Biggest, Coolest, Eco-Friendliest Change Th
- Healthy Living
How to Keep Drinking Water Safe for You and Your Family (Bottled Water is Not the Answer)
Being able to get clean, safe drinking water straight from the tap is a right we're all entitled to. Yet today's news stories report, once again, that the water we drink every day may contain dangerous chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, and other illnesses.
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Holiday Traditions that Mean the Most to Me: Family, Friends, Food!
This weekend begins a chain of traditions I've been building with my family for twenty years.
- Healthy Living
Ten "Buy/Don't Buy" Rules for Greener Shopping
Make "green" shopping easier this holiday season by following the ten straightforward rules below.
- Author Blog Posts
America recycles day, re-useables, recycling, throwaways
Recycling is great, but it's not enough. We need to reduce the amount of stuff we buy even if it is recycled. And we need to stop feeling like throwing all that stuff away is ok, just because it can be recycled. (Lloyd Alter makes the argument more clearly than I over at Treehugger.com. )
- Work + Money
Energy Tax Credits Expire 12/31 - Act Now to Save $$$ on Efficient Windows, Doors
Energy-efficient doors and windows save money by keeping cold air out in winter and warm air out in summer. The federal government and many states are encouraging homeowners to replace drafty old windows and doors with new, energy-saving models by offering tax credits that allow you to deduct a perc
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Politics Shmolitics. You Can Still Make a Difference Based on How You Live and What You Buy.
My apologies to any of you who are elated with the results of yesterday's elections. And my condolences to any of you who think that the world has come to an end.
- Author Blog Posts
Green Baby Shower Gift Ideas
Babies deserve the best when it comes to the food they eat, the toys they play with, the soaps and shampoos they use, and the clothing they wear. Their immature organs and immune systems make them more susceptible to the impacts chemicals can have on development, learning, and overall health, so chi
- Healthy Living
Seven Ways to "Green" Your Period
If you're like most women, you'll use as many as 11,000 tampons during the course of your lifetime. Add to that a couple of thousand pads and panti-liners and the ecological impact of your monthly cycle really starts to add up. All that feminine hygiene creates tons of trash. Particularly egregious
- Author Blog Posts
Salmonella-poisoned eggs make a strong argument for local, organic, family farms.
I love eggs, but I hate food poisoning more.
- Author Blog Posts
It's Time for BlogHer to be Green - Inside and Out.
BlogHer is the world's largest network of women bloggers. As such, it commands substantial financial sponsorships from multi-national conglomerates, many of whom jump at the chance to peddle their wares to the thousands of attendees who throng BlogHer's annual conferences. After all, these women are
- Healthy Living
10 No-Brainer Ways to Use Water Wisely. Plus, a Bonus...
As I pointed out previously, we're drinking the same water Cleopatra drank .
- Healthy Living
We're Drinking the Same Water as Cleopatra. Is It as Clean?
Did you get a drink or throw in a load of laundry before starting to read this blog, written in honor of Blog Action Day? You probably could have, given the easy access most of us have to clean water.
- Back To School
Students Start Food Fight So They Can Have Re-usable Lunch Trays.
Kids are going green, and not just at home. A cadre of student activists at Piney Branch elementary school in Takoma Park, MD, are agitating to replace the throw-away polystyrene lunch trays used in their public school cafeteria with reusable, washable ones. They've raised over $10,000 towards the p
- Fashion
Beauty...or the Beast? Depends on the Safe Chemicals Act.
Cosmetics and personal care products literally touch every part of our bodies. We've been convinced that they'll make us beautiful. They often make us feel better. But evidence is emerging that the cumulative use of these products may be contributing to asthma, the onset of puberty in girls as young
- Green
She Put $1,000 of Her Money Where Her (Eco) Mouth Is
It's easy to say you want to do something to protect the planet. Actually doing it is another matter altogether - unless you're Fredia Banks. Not only did this Washington, D.C. resident launch a non-profit organization to promote sustainability in the nation's capital. She took our One in a Million