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8 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Celebration

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Thanksgiving Commentary, Local Harvest, Thanksgiving Leftovers, 100-Mile Thanksgiving Challenge, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Traditions, Organic Wine, Natural Turkey, Green Your Thanksgiving, Local Produce, Farmer's Market, Reusable Containers, Recycle, Thanksgiving Turkey, Reusable Napkins, Use Less Stuff, Trash, Thanksgiving Tips, Holiday Preparations, Reusable Dishes, Green Cleaners, Thanksgiving Recipes, Local Farmer's Market, Landfill, Organic Turkey, Nontoxic Cleaning Products, Compostable Dishes, Thanksgiving Holiday, Biodegradable Dishes, Heritage Turkey, Green Cleaning Products, Nontoxic Cleaners, Thanksgiving Dinner, Holiday News, Green News
Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, 5 million extra tons of trash are created each week. It's easy to reduce your contribution to all that waste by greening your Thanksgiving.

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Who Decides When to Potty Train: You, Baby or Big Diapers?

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Diapers, Trash, Faircompanies, Landfill, Green News, Potty Training, Garbage, Motherhood, Parenting, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

How did we, in just one generation, go from believing that an 18-monther was ready for the potty to feeling like we needed to let them discover their own way for an additional year and a half?

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Severed Foot Found In Western New York Recycling Plant

AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Ontario County, Foot Recycling Plant, Western New York, Severed Foot, Human Foot, Upstate New York, Foot, Landfill, Right Foot, Foot Landfill, New York News

SENECA, N.Y. — Officials in western New York are trying to figure out how a bare human foot got mixed in with recyclable trash on a conveyor bel...

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How To Choose a Modern Diaper: Fitteds, Flushables, Fleece or... Plastic

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Diapers, Flushable Diapers, Disposable Diapers, Gdiapers, Green News, Children, Green Mom, Landfill, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

When preparing for the birth of my first daughter, I had high ideals for how I was going to save those 4.5 trees and 2 tons of garbage.

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Trash Talk

Zem Joaquin | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green

Read More: End-Use, Monstrous Hybrids, Biodegrade, Commoditizing Trash, William McDonough, Landfill, Garbage, Nike, Environment, Toxic Wasteland, Waste, Trash, By-Prodcuts, Simple Shoes, Google, Soda Bottles, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Green Living, Oecotextiles, Etsy, Delphine, Green Products, Teracycle, Green News
Zem Joaquin

Almost every environmentalist agrees that we need a paradigm shift that acknowledges that nature doesn't have an "away," that everything created in nature is incorporated back in.

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Wall-E Park To Be Built In New York

New York Magazine | Robert Sullivan | Posted 12.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Green News, Park, Environment, Trash, Landscapes, Landfill, Staten Island, New York, Wall-E, Green News

On giant piles of trash left by a generation of New Yorkers, landscape architect James Corner is building a park that has the power to change the way ...

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Life Cycle: Styrofoam: Mark of the Plastic Beast

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Devil, Non-Biodegradable, Green, Earth, Landfill, Chinese Takeout, Pollution, Green Living, 6, Plastics, Recycling, Containers, Recycle, Styrofoam, Waste, Environment, Trash, Food, Eating, Sarah Smarsh, 666, Cups, Biodegradable, Brangelina, Simran Sethi, Green News
Simran Sethi

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the life and death of everyday things. Your Styrofoam lunch container of Mooshu pork is labeled with...

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Green Gripes: Dirty Diaper Dilemmas

Gay Browne | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Diapers, Green Mom, Ecomom, Landfill, Babies, Disposable, Parenting, Green News
Gay Browne

From our vantage point the choice between cloth and disposable diapers doesn't feel like much of a choice at all. But the facts on disposables will turn your stomach faster than the scent of a freshly filled Huggie.

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