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Recycle Your Clothes? It's Easier Than You Think. by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living You've probably been recycling your clothes for years, though you may not think of it that way. But every time you donate your worn shoes, outdated dresses, and old bl ... Read on »

House Cleaning? Use a Fly Swatter, Not a Sledge Hammer by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The way we're being told to clean our homes these days, you'd think we were all living in breeding grounds for small pox, typhoid fever, leprosy, or some ot ... Read on »

Environmental S.O.S. For Water-Soluble, Biodegradable Bottle Caps by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living OK, all you entrepreneurs, scientists, techno-twits, and geeks - let alone captains of industry who are looking for a way to make an honest-to-goodness difference. Take anothe ... Read on »

The Environmental Tragedy of Plastic by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It's easy to overlook the environmental impact of plastic when it's so convenient to just throw it away. But as these photos by photographer Chris Johnson show ... Read on »

Sure, it's made from grapes. But does that make wine eco-friendly? by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Not unless those grapes are grown organically; and if they're grown locally, even better (Ideal Bite claims that "a local wine always trumps an organic one if it& ... Read on »

Organic Beer Tastes Good! by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living If you've been waiting for organics to add some bounce to the beers you drink, wait no longer. Many micro-breweries and even some of the major beer bottlers have jumpe ... Read on »

Make Your Own "Green" Halloween Face Paint by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Now that lead has been found in Halloween face paint, the search is on for safer ways to decorate dimples and illuminate eyes. One thing is clear: ONLY face paint of cosmetic ... Read on »

Nine Reasons to Take Climate Change Seriously by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Still on the fence about whether climate change matters to you? Here are nine reasons why it should:1. Poison Ivy. Poison ivy leaves have gotten bigger and their toxic oils m ... Read on »

Control Climate Change to Protect the Environment by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living If we have any hope of protecting the environment and ourselves, we must get climate change under control. The nations of the world are meeting in Copenhagen in December to tr ... Read on »

It's Blog Action Day - So Get a Move On! by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In honor of Blog Action Day, I'm getting off my duff and doing a few things to protect the environment and my family that I've been meaning to do for a while n ... Read on »

We Need Meaningful Standards to Protect the Planet -- and Us, too. by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living We've all seen the product claims that SOUND like they mean environmental protection. But do they?* Products labeled "natural" may contain some biological in ... Read on »

New Book Highlights Environmental, Health Threats from Toxic Chemicals by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Investigative journalist Nena Baker is the author of The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being (North Point Press/Far ... Read on »

Toxic Dust Bunnies: Environmental Health, Safety Threats from PBDEs by Diane Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Part 2 - by Nena Baker, author, The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux ... Read on »

Environmental In-Box: Cast Iron Cookware by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living For top-notch cooking without the worry generated by non-stick cookware, I turn to cast iron. Here's why:What I Like:* You get "non stick" without the n ... Read on »

Coffee Mugs Matter by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In 2005, Americans used and discarded 14.4 billion disposable paper cups for hot beverages, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters of Vermont calculated. That’s so many cups tha ... Read on »

Eco-Friendly Paint Keeps You & the Planet Healthy by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Conventional paint contains many volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, that "outgas" and escape into the air after they are applied. Indoors, these VOCs cause headach ... Read on »

Be Safer and Smarter When Dyeing You're Latest Do by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Do you color your hair but worry about the impact hair dye could have on the environment as well as your own health and safety? I wish the information provided were more reass ... Read on »

Protecting the Environment is a Health Care Issue by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The current debate about health care seems seriously lacking in one important way: there's no focus on the environmental problems that make so many of us sick.Just sca ... Read on »

Tampons- The Planet's Most Extreme Case of PMS by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living If you’re like most women, you'll use as many as 11,000 tampons during your lifetime. Add to that a couple of thousand pads and panty liners, and the ecological ... Read on »

"In Wildness is the Preservation of the World" by Diane Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Henry David Thoreau wrote these words in 1862. Today, almost a century and a half later, they are more true than ever before. Mining, forest clear cutting, oil and gas develop ... Read on »

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