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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 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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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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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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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),