living green
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TreeShagger: 10 great green date ideas
Welcome to TreeShagger, our new column on green dating. If you’ve got green dating questions, send ’em our way! So Valentine’s Day came and went, and you’re in the doghouse since you couldn’t get a reservation at Olivebee’s Factory? Cheer up, smuckers! Lean in close for some non-obvious, mostly cheap green date ideas, many of […]
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Lose three pounds instantly by getting rid of the Yellow Pages
Photo: Frank HebbertFinally, you can opt out of having several pounds of straight-to-the-bin dead tree matter show up at your door on the regular. Register at yellowpagesoptout.com, and you can elect to stop getting some or all of your phone directories (or sign up for more, I guess, if your version of green living involves […]
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Climate refugees star in Oscar-nominated ‘Sun Come Up’ [VIDEO]
Photo: Sun Come Up If you’re tracking this year’s green Oscar nominees, another one to watch is Sun Come Up — which could really be titled Water Come Up because it’s about rising sea levels. Filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn tells the story of climate refugees in Papua New Guinea. All 3,000 residents of the Carteret Pacific […]
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'Portlandia' recap: A song for Portland
This week on Portlandia: rights for dogs and bikers!
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‘Portlandia’ recap: A song for Portland
This week on Portlandia: rights for dogs and bikers!
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Ask Umbra on avoiding candles connected to carcinogens and deforestation
Are the candles you're using at home contributing to indoor air pollution? Or might they contain palm oil connected to mass deforestation?
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Flava Flav opens fried chicken chain, threatens the Colonel
Look out, KFC: Flav's Fried Chicken is coming! Flava Flav just opened his first fried chicken joint in Iowa, vowing to come by and work the fryer.
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Join a sewing club to save clothes from the landfill
Hit up a sewing club to stitch, socialize, and mend your tattered duds. It's for the earth!
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Guy stops using soap for a year, loves it
Sean Bonner hasn't used shampoo or soap in a year -- and he says he smells great.