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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Aug 1 2010
How to Make Your Own Sweet Treats, Using Plastic-Free Popsicle Molds + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jul 31 2010
3 Soda Makers That Will Let You DIY A Cool, Carbonated Beverage — No Plastic Bottles Required! + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 30 2010
How Whole Foods Whole Body is Changing the Personal Care Products Game with Stricter Organic Standards for Beauty Products. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jul 29 2010
How I'm reducing the amount of plastic in my kitchen (and really, every room of my house), thanks to the humble ball jar. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 29 2010
A coming-soon book by FIT professor Sass Brown will show that green can be gorgeous — and how! + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 27 2010
Artist (and natural deodorant maker) Stephen Dickens talks about his design philosophy and shares his best tips for how to upcycle old t-shirts into awesome new ones. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 26 2010
The co-authors of NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS explain why this counterintuitive (and completely green!) beauty tip actually works. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jul 23 2010
The House of Representatives introduces the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010, saying it's time for cancer-causing toxins to get out of our consumer goods. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 21 2010
The Story of Stuff Project is back with a new video; and Congress has a shiny new bill on the table to match. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 19 2010
Probably lots of toxic chemicals that you'd rather do without. Learn more in this Q&A with Siobhan O'Connor and Alexandra Spunt, co-authors of the new book NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jul 16 2010
Esther Gokhale's new book tells you how. (Hint: It's about more than just standing up straight.) + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 15 2010
No need to spring for a PVC tube or plastic raft. You've probably got plenty of water-worthy materials knocking around your house. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 14 2010
How to solve the problem of antiperspirant? I've been test-running three less toxic, less plastic options for you. And so far, nobody's complained about the smell. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jul 13 2010
The nonprofit design collective AFHny Studio is helping a Bronx neighborhood build an art installation that's also a farm. Here's how you can support their work (and dream up an art farm of your own!). + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jul 12 2010
A new report from Center for Science in the Public Interest says that synthetic food dyes pose risks of cancer, hyperactivity in children and allergies. Here's a rundown of the top offenders and how to avoid them. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 7 2010
Finding non-plastic haircare products is harder than you might think. Here's what's working for me, plus some DIY shampoo, conditioner and styling product ideas you can try at home. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jul 6 2010
Garden not growing? It could be your dirt, says Amy from GreenGardenista.com. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 5 2010
Why spending time outdoors is so good for you, even Harvard doctors say so. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 1 2010
I took an inventory of all the plastic products in my daily bathroom routine. Here's the tally of what I can keep and what I should ditch. What's in your bathroom cabinet? + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jul 1 2010
Feminine hygiene products have a lot of plastic packaging — not to mention other additives that aren't so great for your health, says a new video from Seventh Generation. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 29 2010
I'm going to take it room by room and document the plastic in my life, as well as my efforts to replace it with a greener equivalent. If that equivalent is great, you'll hear about it. If it sucks and makes me super cranky, you'll hear about that too. If it's even pretty good, but I know I'll be too lazy to stick with it, we'll talk about that. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 28 2010
Suffering from a terrible case of stinging nettles or other yard invaders? Try this surefire all-natural weed-killer, courtesy of Amy from GreenGardenista.com. No pesticides required! + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 25 2010
Clever ways to snag yourself a little green space, from the winners of Truck Farm's Craziest School Gardens Contest. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jun 24 2010
PBDEs tend to be the forgotten toxin, but they're in your furniture, mattresses and baby goods. Here's how to get involved in the campaign for safer chemicals in consumer goods. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jun 23 2010
Center for Science in the Public Interest will sue the Golden Arches unless they take toys out of kids' meals. But is the fast food giant ready to stop marketing junk food to children? + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 22 2010
Even if you aren't prone to plant neglect like me, we'll be in the dog days of summer soon, when everything can start to look wilted and spent in the heat. So follow Amy's advice and be scrupulous with your watering to keep things green (or pink) and help them rebound if they start to suffer. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 21 2010
Remember that tray of seedlings that got me inspired to start gardening? Well things didn't turn out so well for that... but I've still got tomatoes in the ground! + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 18 2010
A YouTube video from the Environmental Defense Fund features Glee's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." Will the sweet vocal stylings of Matthew Morrison cure our oil addiction? + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 11 2010
Amy from GreenGardenista.com is back to teach us how to treat your roses for black spot fungus with a simple, green, DIY recipe. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2010
The makers of KING CORN have a new documentary in the works — about the crops they're raising in the bed of an '86 Dodge pick-up truck. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Work & Connect Jun 10 2010
Final installment of a series of blog conversations with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. Today we're talking about why we still think going green is going to be hard and joyless — and why that's so completely not the case. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Work & Connect Jun 8 2010
Fifth installment of a series of blog conversations with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. Today we're talking about why we think we need to own so much stuff. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jun 4 2010
Consumer demand for high fructose corn syrup has dropped 11 percent. But we're still eating plenty of sugar. Here's why that switch isn't as great for your health as you might think. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Work & Connect Jun 3 2010
Fourth installment of a series of blog conversations with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. Today we're talking about why manufacturers know your [insert your favorite electronic or item of clothing here] will break down soon. In fact, they're counting on it. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 2 2010
Testing by the Center for Environmental Health revealed lead in many women's handbags and other accessories. Now over 40 retailers have agreed to stop selling lead-containing goods. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Work & Connect Jun 1 2010
Third installment of a series of blog conversations with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. Today we're talking about why the price tag on the stuff you buy is costing us in ways we don't realize. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 31 2010
Buying too many plants for your garden (before you know what to do with them!) can lead to waste or a yard that's suddenly far more high maintenance than you banked on. Amy from GreenGardenista.com is back with tips on how to avoid this key rookie gardener mistake. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty May 28 2010
Data is preliminary, but Environmental Working Group's latest sunscreen report advises avoiding products containing vitamin A, just in case. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Work & Connect May 27 2010
Second installment of a series of blog conversations with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. Today we're talking about the problems with PVC. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Work & Connect May 26 2010
First installment of a series of blog conversations with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. Today we're talking about why we can't just shop to save the planet. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 25 2010
Tips for greening (and styling up) your next big party with vintage handkerchiefs, mason jars, and compostable plates. From Danielle Venokur, of dvgreen events. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health May 21 2010
Eating common canned foods is exposing consumers to levels of bisphenol A (BPA) equal to levels shown to cause health problems in laboratory animals, according to a new study released by The National Work Group for Safe Markets, a coalition of public health and environmental health groups. The study, No Silver Lining, tested food from 50 cans from 19 US states and one Canadian province for BPA contamination. Over 90% of the cans tested had detectable levels of BPA, some at higher levels than have been detected in previous studies. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 20 2010
Watering is critical to the health of your garden. But how much? How often? I consulted Amy of GreenGardenista.com to get the dirt on H20-ing your green space. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health May 18 2010
This public school teacher is eating cafeteria food every day for a year. We chatted about what's on her plate. + READ MORE
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By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 12 2010
Drawing inspiration on how to plant an edible garden from Jennifer R. Bartley's book Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook. + READ MORE
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