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Travel and Holidays

  • Reduce Unnecessary Waste This Holiday Season

    Reduce Unnecessary Waste This Holiday Season
    Cara Smusiak

    The holidays are a time of joy and sharing, a time spent with friends and family. Of course, theyre also a time of excess and waste. According to the City of Chicago, household waste jumps 25 percent during the period between Thanksgiving and New Years Day. In the United States alone, used gift-wrap and shopping bags weight in at 4 million tons. Thats the bad news. The good news is you can do y...

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  • Gift Giving Made Healthy

    Gift Giving Made Healthy
    Naturally Savvy

    Finding the perfect gift is a challenge, especially when your wish is to promote a healthy and environmentally-conscious lifestyle. This year, give the gift of health with these great ideas: Gift Baskets Large or small, DIY gift baskets can be customized for each person and inspired by holiday events. Here are some suggestions: Fruit and vegetable baskets. Ma...

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  • 10 Reuses for Paper Gift Bags

    10 Reuses for Paper Gift Bags
    Cara Smusiak

    We all have some: Gift bags that have been reused, but have a tear or are generally looking too rough around the edges for another use. It may seem like time to toss them in the recycling bin, but many single-use gift bags is they have a plastic coating, meaning they cant be recycled. The good news is that even when a gift bag has outlived its intended purpose, it can be upcycled in a numbe...

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  • Green Living On A Boat

    Green Living On A Boat
    Kat Robertson

    This is horrible! I exclaimed to my partner Jrn as we rode the dinghy back to our sailboat and home, the Ritmo Di Vita. Following a mild squall lasting fifteen minutes with heavy downpour and increased winds, we were overwhelmed by a staggering mound of trash and debris that was floating in the water. All of this filth had floated into the anchorage area in Chaguaramus, the small port in T...

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  • Green Camping : Put Nature First

    Green Camping : Put Nature First
    Cara Smusiak

    Green camping may seem redundantwhats more green that spending a weekend or a week or two in the wilderness? But many campgrounds cater to our comforts rather than nature, and a lot of campers are anything but green. The good news is, greening your camping trip is simple: its all about planning ahead and putting nature first. The first step toward greener camping is to think light when pack...

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  • Pioneer-Inspired Green Living

    Pioneer-Inspired Green Living
    Naturally Savvy

    There are lots of ways to be inspired to live a greener life. You might take notes from the Ed Begley Juniors of the world, or you might learn something from an ad in a magazine. Teens might be swayed by the latest Hollywood heartthrob, and parents may find inspiration from their kids homework. In that spirit, we thought wed share a few lessons about green living that we can all learn from pion...

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  • Toyota’s Green Building Initiatives

    Toyota’s Green Building Initiatives
    Naturally Savvy

    When we hear the word cars, green and eco-friendly arent the first words that come to mind. But Toyota has taken many proactive green approaches to change such conception by taking energy-efficient and green building initiatives. Stratford Toyota, a new dealership in Stratford, Ontario, Canada that opened in 2010, is the first Toyota dealership in Canada to receive a gold certificatio...

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  • Clunker Buses Become Hip B&B in Israel

    Naturally Savvy

    We may send old clunkers to the junk yard here in North America, but one family in Israel recycles old busses into bed-and-breakfast digs. The Zimmerbus Bed Breakfast, located in the tiny village of Ezuz, in the foothills of Mount Negev, sits on a hilltop overlooking the Negev desert. The retired buses have been covered with adobe and the roofs are thatched with palm leaves, making a stay at...

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  • 40 Ways You Can Go Green on Earth Day

    40 Ways You Can Go Green on Earth Day
    Cara Smusiak

    This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day started as a protest of sorts, a counterculture movement that united Americans and shed light on environmental issues. By the turn of the century more than 180 countries were involved in Earth Day activities and celebrations. In honor of four decades of Earth Days, here are 40 way you can go green (and celebrate) this Earth Day: ...

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  • Traveling & Souvenirs

    Traveling & Souvenirs
    Cara Smusiak

    An exotic tortoiseshell necklace, an unusual bone statue, a lovely piece of corral—it's always tempting to bring home a little token of your spring vacation, but what may seem like a simple souvenir is often anything but. Goods made from animal products are a staple in shops around the globe, but bringing them home is generally prohibited. Wildlife trade is a booming business that includes...

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