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  • A Smaller Footprint

    michelle victoria February 17, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Recycling, San Francisco-Bay Area, Transportation

    Today as I was beginning to flatten cardboard boxes for recycling day I admit I was initially annoyed at having to do this. I thought about all of the cardboard that doesn’t get recycled, would my few boxes really matter? Then I thought about what had been in the boxes and I realized that they

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  • Going Green

    michelle victoria December 2, 2009     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Businesses, Sustainable Energy

    Green jobs, green cars, a green economy, do you ever wonder what exactly qualifies as green and how green is green? It has been said that green is the new black…a trend, a new wave, maybe even a cool way to live. But is that it? There are so many good reasons for this ‘greening’,

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  • What is Sustainable Living?

    michelle victoria November 15, 2009     No Comment     Changing Habits, Climate Change, Farmers Markets, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Businesses, Sustainable Energy

    It has been a busy couple of weeks since I attended the Bioneers conference and getting back to writing I was not really sure where to begin. I have so much great information to share from the conference and about my trip in Northern California, from green hotels to solar powered wineries…and this will all

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  • Those funny looking light bulbs…

    michelle victoria September 30, 2009     3 Comments     Changing Habits, Recycling, Sustainable Building

    I will admit I have been buying those new, strange looking light bulbs for a few years not really knowing why they were better, just that they were. Yesterday I came across a great article that explains what CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) bulbs are and how they work. Maybe you’ll read the entire article but here

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  • The G20 Summit Goes Green in Pittsburgh

    michelle victoria September 23, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building

    A two day G20 summit, not very long considering how many critical issues are at hand, will convene tomorrow in PIttsburgh. I had no idea but Pittsburgh is being hailed as one of the greenest urban centers in the U.S. Could this be? transformed from the city of steel, to the city of green. Sounds

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  • Love Appreciate Respect Recycle

    michelle victoria August 25, 2009     No Comment     Recycling

    Love, Appreciate, Respect, Recycle this is the mantra that Kathy “Elk Woman” Whitman lives by. Her abundant creativity, fueled by this mantra, has moved into recycled jewelry. What a wonderful surprise I experienced on Sunday. I was walking through the annual Santa Fe Indian Market (probably the biggest event of the year in Santa Fe),

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