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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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News: “Childhood Obesity”
If you want people to be healthy, and not overweight, then two things need to happen: 1) Everyone must have access to healthy food, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, regardless of their income level. Â 2) Everyone must have access to safe places to exercise, and society must make it easy to live an active lifestyle instead of pushing people towards a sedentary lifestyle. Sadly, these are not popular choices.
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Plant a Bee Garden
Check out “Help the Vanishing Bees” over on Bloggers Unite. Â Honeybees are under threat from Colony Collapse Disorder, parasites, pesticides, and other hazards. Â Organic beekeeping is an improvement for beekeepers. Â There are many other things you can do to help the bees. Â Among the best is to plant a bee garden. Â I took the photo below at Allerton Park, which has many gardens attractive to insects.
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17Feb2010 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
The Coconut Office
I was amused by this article about an office pod that looks like a coconut.
Would You Work in a “Coconut” Office?
These coconut-shaped offices are actually called pods. They are manufactured by the UK-based company, Archipod (pronounced ‘ark-ee-pod’, as in ‘architecture).
Well, these ergonomic offices of the future may make a lot of sense, if you telecommute or want to have your own home-office away from the everyday household din (noises).
Swap Some Seeds Today!
Today is National Seed Swap Day. Â You can read more about this holiday, and browse some related posts, by visiting the Bloggers Unite event page. Â
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Prepare for National Seed Swap Day
January 30 is National Seed Swap Day. Â This is a time for people to raise awareness about open-pollinated seeds and to exchange the ones they have. You can read more on the Bloggers Unite event page.
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Lower Your Energy Use
Holidays are busy for everyone, so “Change the World Wednesdays” is hosting a long challenge that runs through January 2010. Â The goal is to track your energy use, then find and apply ways to lower it.
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Shop Green for the Holidays!
“Reduce Footprints” has a huge list of places where you can shop for Earth-friendly gifts, sorted into over a dozen categories.
You might want to send a National Park ecard instead of paper cards.
There is also a sale at Mythic Images if you are looking for altar statues.
Or you could buy a poem for someone, another tree-free gift.  There are some nature poems on this list.
Make Your Black Friday Green
Today is “Black Friday,” the busiest shopping day of the year in America. Â Many folks don’t have much money to spend on gifts this year, and unbridled consumerism isn’t good for the environment anyhow. Â But with some careful planning, you can make your holidays frugal, Earth-friendly, and joyful.
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Thanksgiving Activities & Decorations
Previously we talked about favorite Thanksgiving foods and recipes. Â Now let’s consider some other fun things you can do to make your holiday special.
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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 -
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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.
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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
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Thought provoking...keep up the good work! :)
Thank you for including Weeds and Seed Swap. Have a great day!
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Thanks for sharing!
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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 
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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 
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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.
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