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Plastics

We are pursuing a life without plastics. I hadn’t been paying attention to this at all, other than the “don’t microwave your plastics” thing, which didn’t even apply to us because we don’t have a microwave. I just recently (finally) did a little research on it however and have concluded that we have [...]

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This year, we decided that we’d like to buy a greenmarket tree for Christmas rather than one of the ubiquitous Canadian street trees. (I don’t have anything against them–I just wanted to support farmers that were closer to us.) I noticed at Union Square as I was doing my usual greenmarket shopping, that [...]

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Skin Deep is a website that will tell you how safe your cosmetics are. This very detailed site breaks down the ingredients one by one and assesses their risk, then gives an overall score. According to Skin Deep, my Pantene shampoo gets a rating of “4″ (1 is high, 10 is low), my [...]

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It’s Earth Day, a day of hope and action in the service of our home and planet. What are you going to do?
Things we’re going to do:
1) Donate to provide Solar Ovens to those in need.
2) Participate in the Green Apple Music Festival, an event to increase awareness about global [...]

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