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The Green Minute: EWG’s 2013 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce
For today’s Green Minute, we are helping with the release of the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 2013 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Over the past year, EWG analyzed pesticide residue...
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The Green Minute: Helping Bees
Gardens are blooming throughout the United States, and as a result, our most important visitor is re-emerging en masse from the cold dark winter – bees. Bees are primary pollinators in both the human...
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The Green Minute: Windows
Energy efficient windows have gone through something of a revolution over the past few years. Many new kinds of windows can reduce your energy use and save you money. New and improved windows have...
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The Green Minute – Summer Driving Tips
Just in time for summer, the Alliance to Save Energy has released their energy saving tips for summer driving. For today’s Green Minute, check out these energy and money saving actions. Inflate Your...
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The Green Minute: Solutions For Hard-To-Recycle Items – Notebooks & Wine Tips
Can you recycle notebooks? Wine corks? For today’s Green Minute, we have found the answers to these difficult recycling questions through a video series by 1800Recycling.com. The answer to both...
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The Green Minute: Low-Flow Fixtures
For today’s Green Minute check out low-flow fixtures. Sometimes, all it takes to make your home more sustainable and eco-friendly is to “take a walk” through the house and look at all your appliances...
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The Green Minute: Feed Those Birdies the Green Way
It’s finally spring—maybe summer where you live, but a wonderful time of year to attract the birds to your yard, have a glass of wine while you view their interactions and feeding, and to make sure...
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The Green Minute: Recrafting: The Best Way to Recycle While Having Fun
We all have too much junk, and if you are like me, you hate to just get rid of things you MIGHT need in the future. A great way to make use of all those extras, however, is to make gifts or fun items....
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The Green Minute: Hydroponics, Aquaponics, a Green Combo
Backyard gardeners have used hydroponics, a system that grows plants in water, since the time of Frances Bacon. But many amateur gardeners are switching to aquaponics, a combination of hydroponics and...
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The Green Minute: Recyclable Crafts
The possibilities for making interesting, useful items for your home are almost inexhaustible, but below are some ideas to inspire you to stretch out and create your own multiple uses for items around...
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The Green Minute: Expanded Polystyrene
This lady takes styrofoam recycling very seriously. Commonly known as styrofoam, the expanded polystyrene industry is making a big push internationally to show that they care about sustainability and...
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The Green Minute: The ‘Green’ Above Conserves Energy
It may seem odd to some, but owning a living roof is one of the greatest ways to give back to the environment. (Not to mention, one of the coolest things to have on your dwelling). There are more and...
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