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Debra Duneier: Feng Shui Tips For A Good Night's Sleep

2011-10-31T08:26:20Z

Now you can create a Zen, peaceful night's sleep at home with practical and easy to implement feng shui design tips for your bedroom.

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Sloan Barnett: How To Green Your Halloween

2011-10-29T11:32:14Z

With a little planning and creativity, you can create a safe costume, save a little money and reduce your waste for an all-around green Halloween!

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Beth Greer: 10 Ways To Tell If A Product Is (Or Isn't) Really 'Natural'

2011-10-28T08:30:45Z

"Natural," "Nontoxic" or even "Eco-Safe" on the label of your shampoo, deodorant or makeup, makes you think it'd be made with healthy, safety-tested ingredients, right? Well, not always.

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Sloan Barnett: How To Make Your Laundry Greener And Healthier

2011-10-26T08:24:46Z

Doing the laundry is simple enough, right? Sort by color, choose your water temperature, add the detergent, set the cycle -- and then off you go to b...

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EatingWell: 7 Simple Ways To Detox Your Diet And Your Home

2011-10-23T11:04:20Z

Nobody knows just how much of a risk toxins in our food really pose. But we're exposed to dozens, if not hundreds, of chemicals, and the effects of some multiple exposures may be more than the sum of their parts.

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Sloan Barnett: How To Pick A Greener (Healthier) Paint For Your Walls

2011-10-22T11:25:47Z

Forget the smog over LA -- the air indoors is worse than the air outdoors. And far worse when we add paint into the mix.

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Sloan Barnett: Is Your Home Sick?

2011-10-20T12:50:22Z

We tend to think the big, bad world outside is where the unhealthy air is. But for the main source of air pollution in your life you need to look closer to home. In fact, it is your home.

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Sloan Barnett: 5 Health Dangers Under Your Sink

2011-10-18T08:23:16Z

Just 50 years ago, most chemicals found under our sinks existed only in chemistry labs. Today, we consider them essential to modern life.

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Sloan Barnett: 4 Ways To Keep Your Kitchen Greener And Healthier

2011-10-13T08:33:18Z

There are real health hazards to be found in the kitchen. We'll take a look at the top priorities -- from the food you buy, to preparation techniques, to the kitchen products you use.

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Sloan Barnett: 10 Household Hazards That Could Be Making You Sick

2011-10-04T08:35:52Z

It turns out that the pollution inside our homes is worse than outside. Your home may smell clean and feel safe when it's actually filled with toxins from cleaners, paint, tap water, furniture and more.

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8 Tips To Save Paper And Money

2011-09-28T09:36:03Z

From dealnews' Green Dad, Lou Carlozo:

Paper conservation is serious business. For starters, cutting paper use means saving water. Environment Cana...

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PHOTOS: Greener Living Tour Shows New Yorkers 'It's Easy Being Green'

2011-09-22T23:05:38Z

From LG:

Last Saturday, LG showed New Yorkers that it’s easy being green at the kick off of the LG and Good Housekeeping “Greener Living” tou...

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Alanna Zabel: I Am Green

2011-09-16T10:05:00Z

Showing their true innate natures of being change-makers for a better world, Matt Petersen and Ruben Aronin not only shared 10 amazing tips, they gave 20.

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Green Dog Products That 'Throw The Earth A Bone'

2011-08-29T19:44:08Z

From The Daily Green:

Whether you're looking for organic dog toys, recycled beds or other natural pet products, you'll find great ideas here.

Th...

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Duane Elgin: 4 Misconceptions About The Simple Life

2011-08-27T11:38:00Z

It is important to recognize inaccurate stereotypes about the simple life because they make it seem impractical and ill suited for responding to increasingly critical breakdowns in world systems.

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Green Tips For Dorm Living

2011-08-24T19:43:49Z

From St. Lawrence University:

Students heading off to college know that Target, Lands End, Wal-Mart and other retailers devote entire sections to h...

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Duane Elgin: 8 Ways To Simplify Your Life

2011-08-15T08:29:00Z

To portray the richness of simplicity as a theme for healthy living, here are eight different flowerings that I see growing consciously in the "garden of simplicity."

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Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Used Mattresses - Icky Or Eco?

2011-07-20T17:35:56Z

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity.

We need a new mattress fo...

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Jennifer Schwab: Car Collecting: The Ultimate Reuse, Restore and Recycle

2011-07-14T11:10:28Z

So what was a sustainable girl like me doing looking at some of the world's greatest Mercedes, Packard, Rolls Royce, Bugattis, Lincolns, Cadillacs, among many others? After all, aren't cars the antithesis of green?

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Joan Brunwasser: GreenChoice Bank - Great Alternative to Megabanks

2011-06-28T11:26:57Z

There's been a lot of greenwashing lately - businesses making money by jumping on the green bandwagon. But that doesn't seem to be the case with GreenChoice Bank.

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Josh Tetrick: Solving World Problems Starts With Your Strengths

2011-06-18T10:21:11Z

During this time of pessimism, some see our biggest needs as opportunities to thrive. A few stories show how selflessness is often (ironically) profitable.

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Jennifer Schwab: Downsizing -- A Thousand Square Feet Per Person, A New American Standard

2011-06-09T16:07:02Z

I know many successful boomers who are now moping around their 8 to 12,000-foot monuments to capitalism. But has America's long-standing love affair with this type of -- not very green -- home finally run its course?

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PHOTOS: The Best Green Furniture For Your Home

2011-05-26T17:52:34Z

From Inhabitat:

Couldn't make it to New York for the city's most anticipated furniture and product design event of the year? No worries - Inhabitat...

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Courtney Cachet: It's A Green Home If It Saves You Money, Right?

2011-05-17T13:31:16Z

There are some ways to go green that are so effortless, so easy, so less toxic and so less expensive that you'd be foolish not to do them. Here are four easy ways you can go green and save money without sacrificing a thing.

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Andrew Winston: Consumers Never Liked to Pay More for Green to Begin With

2011-05-16T16:54:01Z

To the extent that the premium-priced green products named by the Times have taken a hit, consumers' disdain isn't news: Recession or not, mass consumers never loved paying extra for green.

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