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5 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Enjoy some low impact fun in New York's most populous borough: The People's Republic of Brooklyn.+ READ MORE
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21 Oct 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
America's most visited city park is a green adventure waiting to happen.+ READ MORE
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13 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
You'll rarely hear adjectives like 'hot' and 'young' used to describe farmers.Change Makers is series of interviews with people famous and obscure who are creating a more sustainable world through their work.+ READ MORE
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9 Sep 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Portland, Oregon is the most vegan-friendly city in America..+ READ MORE
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21 Aug 2009 IN FASHION & BEAUTY | COMMENTS
Seems we’re often attempting to mimic nature when paying big bucks for beautifying treatments. You spend wads of cash trying to get a “natural” spray tan glow—the more expensive, the more seemingly “natural.” You dedicate hours out of your day at the local hair salon trying to transform your locks...+ READ MORE
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19 Aug 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
'No Impact Man,' a.k.a. Colin Beavan, the New York City resident who spent a year trying to effectively negate his impact on the planet, had some big hurdles to clear when it came to greening his life to the extreme. One of the smaller ones was doing laundry. Learn how he did it in this exclusive...+ READ MORE
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11 Aug 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Water may be the source of life, but when it is used as a garbage dump, open sewer system, or is polluted in other ways, it loses its ability to provide for all forms of it. Yet that is exactly what is happening across the world, from Indonesia's River Citarum to the Pacific Ocean to small-scale...+ READ MORE
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9 Aug 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Enter Micki Josi and Coquille Houshour in 2005, both New York City Teaching Fellows at the time and both working in schools that did not recycle. So they got to work. They wrote grants to get new recycling bins (most schools had bins as a result of the 1989 law, but used them for trash and they...+ READ MORE
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7 Aug 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tells us that (landfills are ) "well-engineered facilities that are located, designed, operated, and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations." The concept is "to bury the trash in such a way that it will be isolated from groundwater, will be...+ READ MORE
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3 Aug 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Riverkeeper, an independent, member supported organization based in New York, has vowed to take on the problem of polluted rivers and safe drinking water in NYC, with the help of individuals and communities of course. They promote policy and legislation that will further protect these waterways....+ READ MORE
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23 Jul 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Everyone knows the cliches associated with New York City: concrete, skyscrapers, subways, taxi drivers, and so on. But the Big Apple is also the proud home of three amazing botanical gardens. Yep, three of the more than 2000 such gardens worldwide can be found in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.+ READ MORE
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21 Jul 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Dwelling in the formidable shadows of Manhattan and Brooklyn, the NYC borough of Queens is not always associated with the cutting edge. However, it has been home to a plethora of enduring inventions. For example, Louis Lattimer, an African-American inventor from Flushing, patented an improved carbon...+ READ MORE
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20 Jul 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
This past weekend, instead of hopping the train to a Connecticut or Long Island beach, the Hamptons or taking a road trip to Upstate New York—like so many of my fellow New York City dwellers—I decided to take a mini-staycation right here in my hometown, Park Slope, Brooklyn.+ READ MORE
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19 Jul 2009 IN TV | COMMENTS
The Beavan family turns their world upside down to go 'off the grid' in No Impact Man. This riveting document from producers Laura Gabbert and Eden Wurmfeld follows the family as they trade their comfortable New York lifestyle for a lifestyle that leaves as little impact on the environment...+ READ MORE
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19 Jul 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
According to the New York Times’ Fashion and Style section, almost always on the pulse of all things hip, the economic downturn has an influx of the unemployed and weary turning towards spiritual retreats where they can slow down, relax, practice yoga and meditation, bike, hike and more.
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