Green Living
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 183 weeks 1 day 22 hours 11 minutes ago
Recession or not, shoppers still want to buy products that don't harm the environment. At least, that's what John Melecio has found since opening his Eco Boutique on 18th Street in San Francisco in September.
"I might be optimistic, but we did three times what we expected...(more)
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submitted by M Walker for team Green Living 245 weeks 5 days 29 minutes ago
A nice little piece at HybridCars.com quotes a San Francisco Chronicle article a bit. The money quote? "As Berkeley goes, so -- eventually -- goes the nation...." Go Bears, indeed.
From the story: "The American auto industry will probably be at the tail end of the [hybrid]...(more)
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submitted by M Walker for team Green Living 261 weeks 5 days 6 hours 31 minutes ago
Dear Umbra, I have a pest problem in my backyard -- specifically, some tiny (but apparently hungry) insect is making lace out of my basil leaves. I do not want to use pesticides for many reasons, not the least of which is that I cook with...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 263 weeks 2 days 18 hours 24 minutes ago
he Marin Municipal Water District will hold a special workshop from 7 to 9:45 p.m. Thursday so people can help shape a plan to control weeds, including possible use of herbicides, on Mt. Tamalpais.
The meeting will be at the Mill Valley Community Center at 180 Camino...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 103 weeks 21 hours 27 minutes ago
Originally, before the Thermostat Age, the places we built and buildings we built had no choice but to be green, otherwise people would freeze to death in the winter, die of heat strokes by summer, starve to death, or other really bad things would happen...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 252 weeks 5 days 22 hours 27 minutes ago
Mark Verburg and his wife, Mel, placed newspapers, glass bottles and aluminum cans in their curbside recycling container every week when they lived in Concord six months ago.
Now that they live in unincorporated Cabarrus County, recycling is more difficult, Verburg said.
"If it were someplace quick and...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth for team Green Living 253 weeks 3 days 2 hours 36 minutes ago
I used to bathe my daughters together when they were little.
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submitted by M Walker for team Green Living 265 weeks 6 days 15 hours 13 minutes ago
Satellite images show the Mesopotamian marshes in the 1970s (left) and again in 2000 (right), with densest marsh in dark red. Images courtesy Hassan Partow, UNEP In the arid land of southeastern Iraq, where the Tigris meets the Euphrates, marsh lands are reappearing. The new growth...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 260 weeks 1 day 17 hours 16 minutes ago
A plan by the House to become carbon-neutral by the end of this Congress calls for dropping coal from the fuel mix burned at the Capitol Power Plant to heat and cool House buildings.
