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Green Foods for St. Patrick’s Day
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, it’s time to think about green foods. Â For best nutrition, serve foods that are naturally green rather than tinted with food coloring. Â You can also look for good Irish recipes in books like Irish Traditional Cooking: Over 300 Recipes from Ireland’s Heritage
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13Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Weekend Meet-n-Greet 3-13-10
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News: “On Languages of Power and Powerlessness”
The following article does a good job of reminding people that everything happening in politics is a CHOICE. Â Some person or people MADE that choice. If you dislike the choices being made, working on putting different people in charge.
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12Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Three Questions: “Growing Low-Oxygen Zones in Oceans Worry Scientists”
The ocean water’s capacity to hold oxygen is dropping as global temperatures rise. The oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Â These changes are killing aquatic life over large and expanding areas. Â That’s a problem.
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11Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Gross National Happiness
… in which America is trying to catch up to Bhutan. Â Good luck with that.
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10Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Avatar’s Legacy
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9Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Celebrate International Women’s Day Today
Today is International Women’s Day. Â If you are a human being, then you arrived on this Earth through a woman’s body. Â Therefore, it is important to respect women and their roles in society, providing them with the full complement of human rights. Â You can read more about this holiday on the Bloggers Unite event page.
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8Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Weekend Meet-n-Greet 3-7-10
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News: “Climate and Jobs”
Remember that the economy is a subset of the environment, because the environment contains all life on Earth. Â Without a healthy environment, the economy cannot be healthy either. Â Conversely, when people’s needs are met, they have more ability to protect the environment, whereas hungry people tend to ravage it.
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Action Call: “Protect Leatherback Turtles”
Leatherback sea turtles are threatened by many dangers. Â Please sign this petition to help protect them.
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4Mar2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
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I'm a writer and a dreamer, and I'd love to meet you!
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Thank you! I am hoping to increase my planting of bee flowers this year, especially near the blackberry patch. Last year I had blackberries showing signs of incomplete pollination, so I need to help the bees find them. Happily we have no shortage 
Great article - planting a bee friendly garden is a great way to help bees, and the bees will repay you by really helping your garden to flourish. A true win-win situation!
A few more questions and a few possible answers -
http://newilluminati.blog-city.com/averting_climate_catastrophe.htm
Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
I hate shopping bags so enjoyed the post on reusable ones.
Washington Gardener Magazine started National Seed Swap Day five years ago. It is always the last Saturday of January. We celebrate by holding a Seed Exchange in the Washington DC-area on that date each year. I'm glad to see the event and day has tak
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You can find on this website numerous articles on everything environment, as well as blogs, a green-product market and an environmental school curriculum.
http://www.fourgreensteps.com/
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Respectfully speaking, your site offers a good perspective on the green topics most close to your audience... Please do not stop... thanks.... from the world...
That sounds crazy, would the floors be flat? If not imagine having to chase a roll away pen round a spherical floor, and would you desk stand in it?
Wonderful initiative! I posted a link to this article on Care2.com (and signed the petition!)Thanks a lot for the info!Heidi
Its all about incentives. Â Between the government offering tax break and subsidies to the wind industry, and oil and natural gas becoming relatively more expensive, wind and solar are becoming the more economical decision, plain and simple. Â This is 
Thought provoking...keep up the good work! :)
Thank you for including Weeds and Seed Swap. Have a great day!
That's great news ... anything up from zero is fabulous!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this post i liked your blog so much and i am Subscribing to the feeds now keep up the good work
Thanks for this awesome post searched in google for these one and i found it here thanks once again
A lot of people don't want to hear it. But, the truth is that if we want an ecologically sustainable and democratic society, capitalism has to go.
i really liked what you said to the youth people as they didn't want to think of future but you really did a well job man!!!!
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Thanks for blogging about this. I didn't even know there was a National Seed Swap Day!
Something bad is already happening. People going bankrupt over the cost of the high cost of health care, more and more people homeless every day and so on. Its a slow death.
Corporations have become the major influence in the way societies develop, with materialism now a core interest. Commerce, intertwined with governments to varying degrees, influences the management of countries. Business can become a government's mai
It "boils" down to sunspot activity. We have been fortunate to have 310 years of sunspot activity that has warmed the earth up right nicely. Not sure what people are complaining about.
There are 9 sunspot cycles in a century and two of them are 
Anchors aweigh
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I also posted this on Truthout.You are wrong about a few things. Standard toxicology testing - if that is what this was - is designed to go up to concentrations of the test substance that provokes toxic effects. So there is a good reason that some 
Great blog looking forward to reading more from you.
Hello everyone,    I'm exploring the symbols I created and have enjoyed in my lonely world and have discovered several things about them that are abnormal for symbols, its almost as if they have a life of their own, read my web site write them down 
User-friendly, informative, and helpful! Thanks!
This summer we put up a clothes line, although I should use it more, it's hard in the winter. I also have a crochet pattern for making a "Snuggle Up Throw with Sleeves"... Here's the link:
Did anyone make it out this is meet and greet? Wondering about future events and would like some insight. Cheers
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Yeah i found it was buggy also, the pages here load really slowly. I suppose it happens from time to time with servers
Yes! Ray is back and on point.
[Just joking.]