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Make These Spicy Szechuan Green Beans

18 Jul 2008  IN FOOD & HEALTH |   COMMENTS

I was very excited to find a huge number of green beans ready to harvest in my vegetable garden. Given the fact that the bean plants have pretty much taken over the garden, it's nice to see that they are actually producing a fair number of beans. I still have many tiny beans that will be big enough...+ READ MORE

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How to Go Green: Kitchen

17 Jul 2008  IN GREEN-KITCHEN |   COMMENTS

The eco-friendly kitchen begins with eating green, but it doesn’t end there. Energy-efficient food preparation and cleaning habits, using equipment made from sustainable materials, and dodging toxic chemicals are also important if you want to have a truly healthy kitchen. Fortunately, making the...+ READ MORE

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How to Go Green: Eating

17 Jul 2008  IN GREEN-EATING |   COMMENTS

The dailies? You know - milk, bread, eggs - the dailies. These are the things that you find yourself running out each week (or each day) to purchase. Now, you spend a lot of money on these purchases because of their purchasing frequency, so its important that something worth so much money is chosen...+ READ MORE

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How to Go Green: Dishwashing

17 Jul 2008  IN GREEN-DISHWASHING |   COMMENTS

Washing dishes uses water, energy, chemicals, as well as your valuable time, so an efficient approach can save a lot of each. Since dishwashing machines are the norm for the majority of people, most of our tips will be for these. Large appliances like dishwashers account for a huge chunk of your...+ READ MORE

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Ready, Set, Green, Week Five: A Dishwashing Dilemma

16 Jul 2008  IN HOME & GARDEN |   COMMENTS

While I look forward to the day we live in an apartment or house that has a dishwasher, that day doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. For years I've been handwashing dishes (full disclosure: I kind of like it!).+ READ MORE

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Wa$ted: Episode 8

15 Jul 2008  IN WA$TED! |   COMMENTS

Joe is engaged to Laurel, and they live in a house in rural New Jersey with her sister, Alexa.They love living in the country and their house would be a perfect model of green living, except that their road to green is paved with good intentions gone sour.+ READ MORE

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Buying FSC Lumber is a Responsible Choice

14 Jul 2008  IN GREENOVATE |   COMMENTS

On Greenovate, Juliette Ouvaroff and her husband Alexander are renovating their Venice, California home in preparation for a new addition to the family.Environmentalists and an international coalition of forward thinking lumber companies collaborated to create a set of guiding principles to help...+ READ MORE

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When it is Hot, Get in the Kitchen

14 Jul 2008  IN WA$TED! |   COMMENTS

On Wa$ted, we learned of fraternity brothers who were wasting a lot of energy by using space heaters to heat their personal space.While it may not be practical for us to hibernate, we can lie in our beds under our down covers.It is a good setting to read, write, dream, and even get some work done.+ READ MORE

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Take your Dinner Party Outside

11 Jul 2008  IN SUPPER CLUB |   COMMENTS

Taking your dinner parties outside means you get to enjoy those long summer days rather than being cramped in the kitchen.Polywood patio furniture is 100 percent post-consumer waste, comprised of specially processed recycled plastic soda bottles and milk jugs once destined for the landfill.+ READ MORE

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Cooking with Emeril – A Fish Tale

11 Jul 2008  IN EMERIL GREEN |   COMMENTS

Emeril Lagasse tackles another amateur chef's cooking fears on Emeril Green -preparing fish.Together, they make a mighty fine dance ticket in the kitchen making a stew with the following ingredients: halibut, scallops, little neck clams, mussels fish stock chicken chorizo crushed red pepper, bay...+ READ MORE

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