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Do you still receive junk mail? I have called so many catalog customer service departments to be taken off their mailing lists I have stopped counting. But I still was receiving lots of junk mail from local supermarkets (what is super about selling aisles and aisles of pretend food that is making millions of Americans
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You never know when something good can come out of something that seems to be negative. Very often we as humans are motivated to make a change only when our back is up against the wall and we really have to. For instance how many people finally start to eat healthier when they find out
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I just came upon this great story on the many options for recycling that exist and I am talking about for more than just glass, plastic or aluminum. You will find some great suggestions for many items, from tv’s to eye glasses. As a society we have become so accustomed to throwing things away that
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This is my kind of neighborhood restaurant. At The Curious Palate I found a restaurant/market that really cares about quality and where ingredients come from. They shop and cook like I do at home, but they make things that I probably would never cook at home, so now I can enjoy them without being worried
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Mother Nature Network recently ran a story on the 10 Greenest Cities in America. Some of the top ten cities may surprise you and some of what is happening across the country may as well. I was surprised that Oakland, California has the nation’s cleanest tap water and also hydrogen powered buses. Chicago has over
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California may become the first state to ban giving away plastic bags at the check out register. Many cities have already banned free plastic bags, in 2007 San Francisco became the first U.S. city to require supermarkets and large drug stores to offer customers bags made only of recyclable paper, plastic that can be turned
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I have declared it World Water Week…..so here is more on H2O, so that we do not forget how much this valuable resource means to all of us. Friday I had a chance to meet the women on the Tapped film tour. Stephanie Soechtig is the director of the film and producer Sarah Olson are
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Monday was World Water Day, an international observance that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). But water is such an increasingly important issue I felt that it deserved more than just one day and my feelings are shared by many. Tapped is a film about the current state
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There is a wonderful film called No Impact Man (and there is a book version as well) that came out fairly recently about a N.Y. city family that spends a year exploring what it means to live without making any impact on the earth. They went to an extreme that most of us would never
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Today is World Water Day which was initiated in 1992 at United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. I see it as a day to think about water…our use of it, and how easily we can get clean water while over 1 billion people are without access to clean drinking