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Monsanto Wins Again; Supreme Court Rules On Soybean Lawsuit

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Your Best Choices for Green Transportation [Infographic]

Looking for ways to lower your carbon footprint? Making smarter transportation choices can make a big difference.

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Raw Vegan Desserts: Superfood Chia Seed, Almond Milk, Date, Coconut Pudding Recipe

One of the benefits of having friends on cleanse, but not actually be on a cleanse yourself, is they share new healthy recipes. I just learned how to and made chia seed pudding. It is super easy!...

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Beer Brewers Banding Together to Support the Clean Water Act

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Vermont House Votes Yes on GMO Labeling Bill

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Green News For The Weekend Volume 311

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Tesla Model S EV Receives 99/100 Score From Consumer Reports

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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth

Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation. Reaching a global population of 1 billion in 1804 required the entire time...

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US maternity practices: routine vs. evidence-based

Via: ImprovingBirth.org References Martin JA, Hamilton BE, Ventura SJ, Osterman MJ, Kirmeyer S, Mathews TJ, Wilson EC. Births: Final data for 2009. National vital statistics reports : from the...

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5 Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

Mother's Day is just 3 little days away! If you haven't made anything yet for mom, we've got some DIY last-minute Mother's Day gift ideas to help save the day.

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Glyphosate (key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup) linked to human health problems like Autism and Alzheimer’s

The cause of many human health problems remains a mystery, yet such diseases, like Autism, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, are on the rise.  We don’t have to look far to find causal (critics will...

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Animal-Free Fashions: Five Reasons to Choose Alternatives to Summer Leather

“Summer leather” is one trend that has me scratching my head in confusion. Besides the obvious reason of leather sticking to you in very uncomfortable ways as it gets warmer, I’ll give you five...

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Harvesting Justice 13: We Have a Dream – Farm Workers Organize for Justice

For decades, farmworkers – the more than one million men and women who work in fields and orchards around the country – have been leading a struggle for justice in our food system. They have been...

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Thirteen Elements of a Dream Green Home [Infographic]

Got a dream green home you'd love to build? Sure, you'll probably want to include solar panels in the building... but that's just one element. Green building involves making the most efficient use...

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Don’t Be One Of Them.

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Mother’s Day Gift Idea: Blue Ribbon Brooch

Mother's Day is on May 12 this year, so if you want to get crafty for mom, you've only got a few days left!

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Saving the 40%: How to Start a Local, Bike-Powered Food Rescue Program

Want to contribute to rescuing of edible food that gets thrown away? Consider starting your own food rescue organization - a new guidebook shows you how.

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5 Extreme Ways to Conserve Energy

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How to make homemade raw almond butter with your Champion Juicer

I love almond butter!    For awhile, I have been purchasing freshly ground almond butter at the Coop, but it is very expensive and uses roasted almonds.   Fresh ground almond butter tastes...

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From car seats to Wal*Mart dolls: 5000 toxic chemicals in children’s products

My mind is always blown away when I read reports like the one issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology finding 5000 toxic chemicals in everyday children’s products.  Our children are...

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UC Berkeley: Lipstick contains toxic levels of lead, cadmium, aluminum, chromium, etc

I still remember playing as a young child in my mother’s high heels and wearing her lipstick.  It was fun and hugely entertaining, but unfortunately it was also very toxic. A new University of...

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Solar in St. Louis: The US’ First Restaurant Roof Made Entirely of Solar Panels

The Moonrise Hotel in University City is pretty unique overall, but the new solar canopy roof over the New Moon Room is the first in the US for a restaurant roof.

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Green News For The Weekend Volume 310

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Hydrogen Peroxide: the “Missing Link” in Green Cleaning and Personal Care Products?

PROXI touts the presence of hydrogen peroxide in its line of household cleaning and personal care products. Is that enough to consider them high-quality "green" products?

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Hank D and the Bee: Book Worm

More Books Children’s Book Reviews from EcoChildsPlay Worm’s book: The Giving Tree My brand new book: ROBOT+BIKE=KITTEN Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com....

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5 Wine Cork Crafts

Do you hoard wine corks like I do? Let's bust that stash with some upcycled wine cork crafts!

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No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution by John Robbins [Book Review]

At its best, No Happy Cows offers a primer on some of the most pressing aspects of human, social, and planetary health, and in doing so makes a case for how intimately connected these separate...

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The Top Spots for Heat Loss in Your Home

Afraid that you're wasting money on heat? Here are the main spots in your house to check for leaks and gaps.

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42 Percent of USA Live With Dangerous Pollution; Check Your Zip Code.

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5 Ways You Can Lower Your Utility Bills This Summer

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Natural childbirth: Benefits of lotus birth vs. delayed cord clamping

There’s a new trend amongst natural home birthers getting attention by the media…the lotus birth. When I first heard the term, images from Ina May’s book   came to mind of women having natural,...

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Europe Bans Neonicotinoid Pesticide Blamed for Declining Bee Population

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Harvesting Justice 12: Weeding Corporate Power out of Agricultural Policies – Communities Mobilize for Food and Farm Justice

From the school cafeteria to rural tomato farms, and all the way to pickets at the White House, people are challenging the ways in which government programs benefit big agribusiness to the...

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A Future Look at Going Green

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Spotted: Wine Cork Pendants

Check out these beautiful pendants made from reclaimed wine corks!W

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Natural remedies: The power of echinacea in fighting springtime colds and allergies

The change of seasons always seems to bring about colds in my family.  As a teacher, I am repeatedly exposed to sniffles and coughs.  Even though I think I will build up immunity after so many...

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Active Ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Linked to Cancer, Autism, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s

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Five Weird Sources of Energy [Infographic]

Think you know every energy source under consideration for home or commercial use? Check out these more offbeat options...

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How To Spot Greenwashing

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Anxiety disorders in children

  Anxiety disorders in children   A certain amount of anxiety is a normal part of childhood, and every child will go through different phases, which are usually only temporary and quite harmless. ...

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Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide

Earth Policy Institute reports on the growth of bike share programs. From their humble origins in Northern Europe, the bike share has become an available form of alternative urban transportation in...

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Green News For The Weekend Volume 309

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5 Ways to Reuse Cereal Boxes and Organize Your Life!

Feeling guilty about the cereal boxes in your recycle bin? Pull 'em out and try some of these upcycled projects to give them a new life!

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Women’s Education: Key to Economic and Environmental Progress

Research overwhelmingly shows if more women are educated, countries experience greater economic growth, lower infant and child mortality rates, and declines in the spread of HIV/AIDS infections,...

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