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This Green Living community of bloggers offers ways to live eco-friendly at home and work, while also offering news on large scale, earth friendly advances being made worldwide. If you would like to participate, please contact: Laura Roach
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Discovery’s “Life” A Glorious Follow-Up to “Planet Earth”, but Party Smacks of Hypocricy
We humans have developed agriculture, food processing and cooking, and even restaurants.
Discovery and the BBC’s new series, “Life” is knock-your-socks off fantastic. Seven years in the making, the all-animal cast performs feats of daring, acts of subterfuge, and engages in fantastical flirting, all captured with crazy high-def cameras that had a lifelong devotee of nature programs like myself practically gasping out loud at the NYC premiere event last week.
Eco Chic
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Stored vitamins can go off in a short time, a week even
Something that, as far as I am aware, does not happen if you use herbs as your source and store herbs properly dried, for instance, for infusions. The findings could be a serious blow to the vitamin and health supplement industry, which is worth about 600 million GBP a year in Britain and that lobby is already doing damage control. The research shows how vulnerable supplements such as vitamin B and C are to a process called deliquescence. It means that they are badly affected by humidity, which can reach up to 98percent in a bathroom where, for example, someone has just had a lengthy
Green (Living) Review
- Monday, March 8, 2010
Four Steps to Prepare for the Low-Plastic Future
Map Out Your Plastic Footprint Given that one of plastic's main charms is it cheapness, it follows that companies who rely heavily on plastics in their products or processes will face significant cost exposure if forced to substitute other materials, whether because substances are banned or because their use becomes a hot button for consumers (or because the price of plastic increases significantly). For example, for some operational applications, consider investing in non-plastic reusable containers for appropriate stages of processing or transportation. By Ellie Moss The FDA's reversal of its decision on BPA is one more sign that the way we use plastics today may be on the verge of a significant shift.
The Green Changemakers
- Monday, March 8, 2010
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Recycling processes
We take bottles and cans in for recycling or if we're lucky, we have access to kerbside recycling - but what happens after the waste has left our hands? A brief look at how paper, aluminum and steel cans, glass and
plastic plastic bottles are recycled into more of the sam
Green Living Tips
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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High Fructose Corn Syrup IS Bad for Your Kidney, Liver and the Planet (but can be Funny Too)!
Mainly, because it’s processed, and processed foods are what are making us fat, by sneaking ingredients into our bodies that our bodies never evolved to digest. It is suggested that diabetics avoid it because they body doesn’t process it like sugar (glucose) which can wreak havoc on blood sugar levels.
-HFCS So you’ve consumed a bunch of processed sugar-like calories, but your The original SHAMEFUL ad that was showing during the spring and early summer. Really.
Eco Chic
- Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Eco-Friendly Printing Options for Your Home Office
printing Heidi Tolliver-Nigro printing printing process Samsung Waste Farmer If you spend a good amount of time in your home office, then you might want to consider how best you can green your work environment. Paper is one of the biggest sources of waste in every home office. While digitizing your work is really the better option for trees, there is [...]
Green Living Ideas
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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POLYSTYRENE PROCESSING SAVES LANDFILL SPACE IN FLORIDA
Awarded in 2008, the grant has placed RecycleTech’s EPS processing machines in several counties and businesses throughout Florida. EPS has historically been a waste stream that was not recycled due to the low cost/benefit ratio of the processes that were available. In the past, equipment designed to process EPS was either too expensive or large and cumbersome, requiring significant floor processing space. New technologies provide solution SADDLE BROOK, NJ, March 23, 2009 : Ever wonder where those Styrofoam® school cafeteria trays end up? Not to mention those Styrofoam
Green (Living) Review
- Monday, March 23, 2009
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Bamboo Clothing - The Facts - Not So Great
Click on this image to read a similar article Via OrganicClothingBlog The manufacturing processes where bamboo the plant is transformed into bamboo the fabric are where the sustainability and eco-friendly luster of bamboo is tarnished because of the heavy chemicals, some of which are toxic, that are often required. There are two ways to process bamboo to make the plant into a fabric: mechanically or chemically. Very, very little bamboo clothing would qualify as sustainable or organic clothes. Here’s the scoop.
Green Earth Journey
- Friday, January 2, 2009
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Indigenous Peoples at Copenhagen Climate Talks Deliver Peace Prize Message to Obama at US Embassy: Procession, Prayer & Protests
quot; The events this morning included a solemn procession to the US Embassy, and a traditional prayer led by Sarah James, a Gwich'in Alaska Native elder, who is in Copenhagen to tell the world about the impacts of climate change on her homelands, such as melting permafrost and forced relocation. "Indigenous rights and knowledge are the foundation for addressing climate change" by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Copenhagen, Denmark - Indigenous Peoples from across North America and their allies from around the world gathered at the US Embassy in Copenhagen the other day to deliver a message to President Obama as he traveled to Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize.
Green (Living) Review
- Friday, December 11, 2009
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USPS Unveils NYC’s Largest Green Roof
USPS picked one of its most notable facilities to receive its very first green roof: the Morgan mail processing facility is just a few blocks from Penn Station on Manhattan and became a historical landmark in 1986. acre roof that was designed to handle additional mail processing and could thus support 200 pounds per square foot; when USPS decided to replace the roof two years ago, it determined it would be strong enough to support a green roof.
One of UPS’ most popular slogans was “What can brown do for you?” Perhaps the United States Postal Service’s slogan could be, “What can
Green Life Smart Life
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Manduka Yoga Mat Goes Red for all Those Yoga Moves
Manufactured using a certified emissions-free process, the Manduka PRO Black Cherry is made to be your lifetime yoga companion, supporting Manduka’s commitment to eco-responsibility and reducing consumption. Tagged: black mat pro , emissions free process , manduka , yoga
...Tags: Tags: Green Health Organic Safety black mat pro emissions Manduka , announced today the introduction of the Manduka PRO Black Cherry—an iteration of the Black Mat PRO—available for a limited time only in a hot new hue. Highly anticipated by the yoga community for several
Green Life Smart Life
- Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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New Technology Milks Algae for Oil
A new cost-effective, high speed manufacturing process for extracting oil from algae, called ‘Live Extraction™’ has been developed by OriginOil. This breakthrough technology has the potential to provide an endless supply of cost-competitive and environment-friendly oil to displace petroleum, says the company.
OriginOil’s OriginOil’s Live Extraction™, or milking, achieves continuous production of algae oil [...] [ New Technology Milks Algae for Oil from Green Living Ideas ]
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Green Living Ideas
- Thursday, August 27, 2009
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10,000 Gallons a Day of Animal Waste Fuel Head to Market
Tags: Waste Reduction 50000 gallons animal parts Arlin Gyberg Brian Krohn commercial scale cradle-to-cradel Ever Cat Fuels fats McGyan Process oils sulfated zirconia column sustainable biodiesel U of M in Minnesota waste biodiese Last month a rural Minnesota factory began pumping out commercial-scale quantities of biodiesel made from animal waste like pig parts and waste fats… and almost any other waste fats and oils. The idea isn’t new, – - Sweden was able to reduce carbon emissions 9% below their Kyoto goal while growing their economy 44% by [...] [ 10,000 Gallons a Day
Green Living Ideas
- Thursday, December 3, 2009
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