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Simple Solutions to the E-Waste Problem
It's easy to get excited about getting new gadgets, but we rarely give any afterthought as to what happens to our old laptops or cell phones after we put them out on the curb. Some of us might be more responsible and bring them to the nearest recycling facility for p...
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Sesame Street Has Always Been Green
When my brother and I were five and six, we had a kinship with two rubber puppets. Bert and Ernie’s likenesses were firmly affixed to our left hands for as much as I can recall, their striped shirts flowing down to our bony, prepubescent elbows. My brother’s puppet/role m...
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Trade CDs, DVDs, Games, Books with Swap.com
A good swap is a wonderful thing. You save money, get rid of things you no longer use, acquire something you can use, and help the planet by reducing the need for new products and preventing items from ending up in the waste stream. And if there arent a lot of swaps in your ar...
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Website Teaches Consumers to Spot Greenwashing
Companies have gone to great lengths to appear green, even if they arent. Greenwashing is common, and its not always easy for consumers to figure out if a product is truly eco-friendly. Enter the GreenwashingIndex.com, a website that helps consumers learn how to separate the t...
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FutureMark's High-Quality Recycled Paper
We all have our favorite magazines. For some its Vogue, for others, Mother Jones. But eco-aware readers often struggle with a conscience that tells us that theres a lot of wasted paper in the media industry. And most of the paper that magazines use is predominantly virgin—mean...
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Make Your Blog Carbon Neutral
Have you ever thought about the environmental impact of your blog? Do you wonder how you can make your blog carbon neutral without spending a bundle? Its easier than you may think, and it will cost you nothing but a few minutes of your time.Make It Green!, a German organi...
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Use Social Networking to Share Green Ideas
It's a small world, and it can seem like technology is making it smaller ever day. Social networking enables us to be interconnected in ways we have never before been, reconnecting old friends, revealing mutual friends and acquaintances, and bringing strangers with common in...
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Read Green: Join David Suzuki's Book Club
Have you been meaning to read more books about the environment, but just aren't motivated? Well, the answer to your problem might be the David Suzuki Foundation Book Club. David Suzuki, the co-founder of the foundation, is a household name in Canada. He's been champion...
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Scientist Explains How Research Becomes News
It's easy to get lost in all the climate change headlines. Study after study tells us some new finding supports climate change, but it can be difficult to put one tiny piece of the puzzle into context, and confusion among the general public is all too common. In a recent TE...
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Boho: The Little Green Magazine That Could?
It hasn't been a great couple of years for magazines. Venerable brands like Gourmet and Blender folded in 2009, and despite widespread love for all things green, even eco mags haven't been able to weather the storm all that well. Plenty closed up shop early in 2009, and...
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4 DIY Websites We Love
DIY has exploded in the past few years. Though there are always some things you should leave to the pros (like installing windows), there are plenty of DIY projects that anyone can handle—so many that there are several websites dedicated to DIY.DIY is a great way to go gr...
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Start a Green Book Club
Have you always been meaning to get to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, or Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, but never seem to have the time? If a few friends are having the same trouble, get off your laurels and throw together a green book club. I ...
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5 Movies with an Unintentional Green Message
I'm a pop culture junkie. Movies, TV, music—I love it all. I was absentmindedly thinking about a movie character one day when it hit me: This character does something that's green; he isn't meaning to be eco-friendly, but he is, and viewers can learn something from...
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5 Reuses for CD-Rs
They sit stacked in drawers and cupboards, collecting dust on their shiny polycarbonate surfaces. Most homes and offices have stacks of used (and unused) CD-Rs hanging around, a reminder of a time before iPods, Mp3 player, and USB memory drives. Eventually, most will be tossed...
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Get Crafty with CraftingAGreenWorld.com
Are you a crafter with environmental sensibilities? Want to see what other eco crafters are cooking up? Check out CraftingAGreenWorld.com.Youll find instructions, advice and hilarious stories about things gone wrong. There are interviews with crafters, posts on crafti...
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Great Green Summer Reading
Summer just wouldn't be summer without a little time lounging outside with a good book. With that in mind, Naturally Savvy has put together a mini reading list of books that are sure to have you thinking green—and they're perfect for gifts, too. They aren't so muc...
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Focus on Environmental Film Festivals
Films play a critical role in teaching people about environmental issues. Whether they focus on a small town, a large corporation, a single person, or a threatened species, environmental films can inform people around the world. Film festivals play an important role in the envir...
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Is a .eco Domain on the Horizon?
Green individuals, eco-organizations and environmentally responsible companies could be looking at the prospect of a new .eco domain in the foreseeable future. Last year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to add new generic top-level domains, ...
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Documentary: The World According to Monsanto
Monsanto. Youve probably heard the name of this agricultural engineering juggernaut once or twice, and maybe youve noted some controversy. But how much do you really know about this company?In environmental and sustainability circles, Monsanto is synonymous with Roundup p...
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Review: Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs?
I have to admit, I was drawn in by the title. But I would challenge you to find me one person who wouldn't want a closer look at a book titled Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? So I flipped the book open, read the first page, and I was hooked. Robyn Harding's...
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Excerpt: The Denim Diet by Kami Gray
Long to get back into a slim pair of jeans without compromising your health or the environment? Wardrobe stylist Kami Gray shares her lifestyle habits that can make it happen in her new book, The Denim Diet: 16 Simple Habits to Get You Into Your Dream Pair of Jeans. Skeptical?...
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An Eco-Friendly, Healthy Diet
Do you ever wish you could fit into the jeans you wore in high school? It might sound like wishful thinking, but Kami Gray—wardrobe stylist and author of The Denim Diet: 16 Simple Habits To Get You Into Your Dream Pair of Jeans—is living proof its not just possible, its ea...
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Five Fab Eco Songs
Musicians have a captive audience, so it's no surprise that the eco-minded are using their stage as a soapbox of sorts, spreading the word about environmentalism wherever they go. But some musicians don't just talk about the environment, they sing about it. We've...
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Eco Books For Kids
Kids are like sponges—they learn a little bit with every new experience. Whether you have a pre-schooler or an older child, its never too early or too late to teach your kids about environmental issues. Teaching by example is vital since kids learn a lot from the hab...
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Green Your Book Buying
There is nothing quite like a good book and a cup of tea or coffee on a cold winter night. Whether you're curled up in a cushy chair at your fave cafe or bundled in blankets at home, reading is a fantastic way to unwind from the stresses of life (unless, of course, your rea...
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