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Conventional cut flowers are bad news. Those lovely bouquets come from far away, and that means a gigantic carbon footprint along with your bunch of Gerbera daisies. Not to mention the water it takes to grow all of those flowers that live for a few days before wilting in their vases.
We’re right in the thick of cold and flu season, and if you’re anything like me, this chilly weather is not doing your nose any favors. Rather than relying on paper from virgin forests to clear your sinuses, let’s talk about some better tissue options!
About 4.6% of the petroleum we use in the U.S. goes into plastic production. The thing about plastics is that they’re not all used to make food containers and cheap toys. There’s plastic in all sorts of things that we rely on every day, from medical supplies to electronics. What if we [...]
What do you get when you combine robotics and small-scale organic farming? Atlanta foodie Lady Rogue is examining that very question with her growBot project. Lady Rogue is a busy woman! She’s a cook, social provocateur, community organizer, asker of questions and maker of plans. She runs the underground food community rogueApron, its corresponding [...]
Borders’ closing of Waldenbooks stores may result in thousands of books ending up in the dumpster. In response to ‘Big Box Waste and What We Can Do About It‘, tipster Heather L. let us know about another shameful case of corporate waste from Borders, who owns the chain Waldenbooks. Waldenbooks is closing its 200 locations [...]
Baking soda and vinegar are the superstars of natural, home made cleaning supplies, but there is a lesser-known player that’s key to a good green cleaning arsenal: borax Borax is a little bit different from its cousin, boric acid. Boric acid is a great insecticide. Borax, on the other hand, is a salt that’s [...]
After reading Gary Smith’s expose on cruelty in the wool industry on Elephant Journal a couple of weeks ago, I’ve had knit goods on my mind. Combine that with being pretty bummed about retail waste, and things were looking sort of grim. That is, until I ran across an awesome new company: Reknit.
The other evening, I tweeted about H&M and Wal-Mart destroying usable garments before trashing them, presumably so folks wouldn’t dumpster dive for the free clothes. A friend responded that she had heard about a big food chain that pours bleach on perfectly edible baked goods that they’re tossing into the dumpster at the end [...]
Let’s be honest here: everyone is “green” these days. Marketers have co-opted that word to sell us everything from clothing to cleaning supplies, and they’ve managed to obscure the word’s real intention in doing so. Through deceptive packaging and vague claims, large companies are after well-intentioned consumer dollars. It’s buyer beware when looking for [...]
Last week, we talked about cleaning with vinegar, and it got such a great response, I thought it would be fun to take a look this week at vinegar's best friend: baking soda.
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