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How To Green Your Holiday Meal

Avital Binshtock | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Hanukkah, Soil, Turkey, Agriculture, Thanksgiving, Flowers, Green, Toxins, Soup Kitchen, Decor, Vegetables, Christmas, Dishwasher, Leftovers, Holidays, Holiday Season, Food Banks, Crops, Ecuador, Green Living, Reusable, Family Meals, Decorating, Imports, Menu, Organic Food, Fruit, Cornucopia, Colombia, Water, Environment, Tips, Homeless Shelters, Food, Decorating Tips, Green News

Working up a menu for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or another upcoming holiday? Here are three tips to help you be more environmentally responsible while planning that feast.

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In Kenya, Workers in the Tea and Flower Industries Find Strength in Solidarity

Bernard Pollack | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Border Jumpers, Solidarity Center, Africa, Unions, Flowers, Tea, Kenya, World News

Bella Rose, Red Calypso, Sunny Sher, Wild Thing, Ria, and Inca are all grown here in Kenya--roses with enticing names that give little indication about how they are grown or how the workers are treated.

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Rafflesia: New Hope For Saving The World's Biggest And Weirdest Flower

The Independent | Relax News | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Southeast Asia, Flowers, Conservation, Malaysia, Sustainability, World's Biggest Flower, Ecotourism, Rafflesia, Green News

Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia blooms the world's biggest flower -- a massive fleshy orb designed by nature to attract insects by mimicking the...

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11 Carnivorous Plants (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Flora-and-Fauna, Butterworts, Dewy Pine, Bladderworts, Plants, Sundews, Slidepoll, Nature, Flowers, Environment, Carnivorous-Plants, Pitcher Plants, Corkscrew Plants, Water Wheel Plant, Green News

These plants may look like sweet, innocent flowers, but don't be fooled -- they are meat-eating killers! Carnivorous plants are those that don't just ...

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Lynden Miller, Carolyn Kent: Ladies Who Perfected New York's Parks

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Carolyn-Kent, Fountains, Martha Stewart, Central Park, Flowers, Battery Park, Bette Midler, Lynden Miller, Bryant Park, Saint Mary's Church, Public Parks, Public Service, New York News

More than other New Yorkers, Lynden Miller and Carolyn Kent largely reversed the ill effects of the city's 1970s era of disinvestment in public places.

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Too Much Zucchini

Suzy Bales | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Flowers, Vegetable Garden, Soup, Zucchini, Zucchini Soup, Centerpiece, Living News

To solve the problem of an abundance of zucchini I came up with two additional solutions.

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Using Joy to Beat Back the Economic Boogeyman

Wes Isley | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Blackberry, Job Losses, Friends, Well Being, The Balanced Life, Economic Crisis, Flowers, Gardening, Contentment, Happiness, Joy, Living News

Before the economy tanked, I never worried about going out to celebrate a friend's birthday. But last week, the thought of paying for drinks, dinner and a birthday dessert was stressing me out.

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How Flowers Conquered The World

BBC | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Flowers, Evolution, Flower Growth, Science News, Flower Domination, Earth News, Green News

Charles Darwin had no explanation, calling it an "abominable mystery". But now scientists think they have solved the riddle of how flowers came to ...

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Want to Get Close to Nature? Stay Home!

Jane S. Smith | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Flowers, Country, Turtles, Birds, Pond, Children, Nature, Green News

While the countryside was getting paved, drenched, and denuded, nature had decided to move back into town.

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To Moms the World Over: How to Keep Your Cut Roses Healthy for 10+ Days

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Mothers' Day, Cut Roses, Flowers, Roses, Style News

At night before you turn off the lights, put a stopper in your kitchen sink and add water. Take your roses from their vase, and lay them on their sides.

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Mother's Day Gifts The Green Way

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Flowers, Green Flowers, Organic Flowers, Mother's Day Flowers, Flowers, Mother's Day, Green Living, Giy, Green News

Time to get your last-second Mother's Day gifts! 1. You can't lose with flowers, but if you've got an eco-mom (or if you're an eco-offspring), you m...

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Lisa Kudrow Wants a Nuclear-Free Mother's Day

Joe Cirincione | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Ploughshares Fund, Video, Friends, Nuclear Weapons, Mother's Day, Flowers, Actress, Analyze That, Lisa Kudrow, Peace, Living News

Lisa Kudrow has teamed up with us in a Mother's Day for Peace campaign to urge people everywhere to honor their mothers with a gift of peace.

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Turn Your Flowers Into DIY Green Perfume

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Perfume, DIY Perfume, Flowers, Green Living, Gardening, Giy, Make Your Own Perfume, Green News

A lot of those designer perfumes out there aren't that green. You could do better by making your own perfume or cologne out of plants that you can gro...

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Beating Around the Bush

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Plants, Bush, Children, Humor, Satire, Butterflies, War, Landscaping, Flowers, Marx Brothers, Monster, Lawns, Groucho Marx, Comedy, Zeppo Marx, Gardens, Green Living, Living News

My green thumb is really a fungus. That's why, under my tender care, the lawn looks like it was manicured with a flamethrower.

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A Forgotten Bulb: Fool's Onion

Suzy Bales | Posted 04.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Flower Arranging, Flowers, Gardening, Spring Planting, Bulbs, Onion, Fool's Onion, Spring Flowers, Botonists, Spring-Flowers, Alium, Botany, Style News

The fool is the one who doesn't bother to plant the Fool's Onion.

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Israel Allows Gaza To Export Valentine's Day Flowers

AP | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza Flower Growers' Association, Blockade, Flowers, Gaza Strip, Exports Into Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Valentine's Day, Carnations, World News

KEREM SHALOM, Israel — Israel is relaxing its blockade of the Gaza Strip to let through 25,000 carnations headed to Europe for Valentine's Day. ...

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Top 10 Reasons to Look Forward to Valentine's Day

Ethan Imboden | Posted 03.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Holidays, Top Ten, Relationships, Flowers, Pleasure, Porn, Hallmark, Pornography, Valentine, Jimmyjane, Romance, Chocolate, Sex, Sexual Relationships, Roses, Presents, Tips, Cards, Valentine’s Day, Top 10, Gifts, Love, Sexy, Style News

Our modern Valentine's Day is still a holiday with benefits, some are just less obvious than others.

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Captive Flower

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Detainees, Feelings, Law, Red-Tape, Emotions, Lawyers, Emotion, College, Nature, University of Wisconsin, Bureaucracy, Flowers, Red Tape, Bullshit, Living News

My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.

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