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Rubypearl Clothing
also use environmentally low-impact dyes and everything is hand made by me--so there is no sweatshop labor and it's 100% made in America! believe we are in the midst of a backlash against mass produced goods. use recycled slips and scarves, old evening dresses and beads from the 1920's and 30's. What inspires you? Twice a day.
Green Earth Journey - Friday, July 16, 2010
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What's the Economy for, anyway?
The only ones that gain from economic growth are, mostly, the banks and multinational corporations that can undercut any local producer, getting their products made in China for a pittance and then selling them at fairly high prices, compared to production costs, to us. Good for us? Don't be daft! Good for who? Really?
Green (Living) Review - Saturday, July 10, 2010
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$75,000 GRANTHAM PRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED
The $75,000 Grantham Prize is awarded annually to nonfiction work produced in the United States or Canada during the previous calendar year in all media. 2010 Grantham Prize Honors Excellence in Environmental Journalism NARRAGANSETT, R.I., This led to her first book, “Dancing at the Dead Sea,” published in 2004.
Green (Living) Review - Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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  • Chef’s Collaborative RAFT (Renewing America’s Food Traditions) Event is from Oct 10-12
    Chef’s Collaborative RAFT (Renewing America’s Food Traditions) Grow-Out Heirloom Harvest Week is a celebration of New England’s agricultural heritage, biodiversity and farmer-chef connections. . Steve’s Organic Produce, Bristol. Participating Restaurants : 22 Bowens, Newport. Blackstone Caterers, Newport. Boat House, Tiverton.
    Green Life Smart Life - Friday, October 9, 2009
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  • Wash Your Produce
    This time of year more and more produce is available in North America as harvest time is here. Lifehacker comes through again with a recipe for a produce wash. Spray mixture on produce (avoid using on mushrooms), let sit 5 to 10 minutes and rinse. Then, transfer to a spray bottle with a pump. Doesn't get much simpler.
    Living In a Toxic World - Friday, August 21, 2009
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  • Seattle as North America's First Carbon-Neutral City
    by Alex Steffen , 23 Nov 09 Last week, I stood on the stage at Seattle's Town Hall and called on Seattle to become North America's first carbon-neutral city, dropping its per capita climate emissions to nothing by 2030. That absolutely does not mean that everything we do must be perfect, or even produce a specific measurable impact.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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  • Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Smartly Focuses Sun’s Energy
    The combination of the two German companies will be called Solar Trust of America LLC. Tagged: concentrating solar power, Green, photovoltaic, power plants, Solar Millenium AG, solar power, solar thermal power, Solar Trust of America LLC. Market for solar thermal power.
    Green Life Smart Life - Monday, September 7, 2009
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  • Green Tech: A Solar-Powered Home Theater
    If you’re the director of the Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) and you want to send a message of environmental responsibility, you install a solar powered home theater. The theater in the video runs on solar energy from four roof-mounted panels that produce an aggregate of 700 watts per hour.
    Green Life Smart Life - Thursday, April 30, 2009
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  • Food, Inc. Discussion Guide
    Discussion Guide, developed by the Center for Ecoliteracy and released by Participant Media, the Los Angeles-based entertainment company that produced An Inconvenient Truth, Darfur Now, and The Kite Runner. Participant Media produced the film in collaboration with River Road Entertainment and Magnolia Pictures. Food, Inc. link].
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, November 5, 2009
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  • Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most Irresponsible Companies
    Nestle promised that by July 2005 they would find a way to certify chocolate as not having been produced by any underage, indentured, trafficked or coerced labor, but since then, they have achieved very little. But even with this evil legacy – and that of Napalm, which it also produced – Dow is not contrite. Nestle. Pfizer. Wal-Mart.
    Eco Chic - Thursday, May 7, 2009
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  • ‘WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE’ HIGHLIGHTS DANGERS OF BIOFUEL
    These plants are processed into oil which is then burned to generate electricity, produce heat, or are used in transport fuel for cars, trucks and busses. Second, jatraopha requires fertile agricultural land in order to be commercially viable, producing enough oil per hectare to make economic sense for the energy companies to use it.
    Green (Living) Review - Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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  • Swine Flu's Impact
    Not pork producers either. In North America we have relied on cheap, migrant labor to the work on farms. Many of those migrants are from Mexico and Central America. What will the price of produce be? Swine flu is all over the news. The impact of a pandemic will be widespread. The agricultural sector is no exception.
    Living In a Toxic World - Thursday, April 30, 2009
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  • Urban Agriculture
    jonathanvlarocca, Flickr Creative Commons by Fredrik Gyllenhoff By 2020 the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America will serve as home for 75 % of all urban dwellers, and to eight of the anticipated nine mega-cities with populations in excess of 20 million. The cubans claims it is the way to total sustainability.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, March 19, 2010
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