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12 Ways to Enjoy an Island Staycation, Staten Island That Is

17 Nov 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

New York's most suburban but least populated borough is just a 5-mile ferry ride from the hustle, the bustle, and all that concrete.+ READ MORE

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The Boogie Down Bronx Ain't Burning Anymore: 14 Stimulating Stops on Your Subway Staycation

15 Nov 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

It's time to recognize a multi-cultural outpost where, for the price of a subway ride, anyone can stay green while making the scene.+ READ MORE

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10 Unfairly Oft-Maligned Big Apple Inhabitants

8 Nov 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

New York may be famous for skyscrapers but it's also the ideal pace from which to embark on an urban safari.+ READ MORE

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Hate to Leave New York? The Perfect Brooklyn Fall Staycation in 16 Easy Steps

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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The Ultimate Central Park Staycation: 20 Low Impact/High Excitement Ways to Explore the Big Apple's Backyard

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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Meet Brent Ridge, Farmer and Founder of Beekman Farms

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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A New Yorker's Vegan Guide to Portland, Oregon

9 Sep 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

Portland, Oregon is the most vegan-friendly city in America..+ READ MORE

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5 Free Green Ways to Reverse Summer Skin and Hair Damage

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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Watch an Exclusive Sneak Peek of the "No Impact Man" Documentary

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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Waterways Around the World: Still Being Polluted, Still Not Being Cleaned Up

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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Two Teachers Get NYC Schools to Actually Recycle, Students Take Note and Recycle at Home

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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11 Things You Might Not Wanna Know (But Should Know Anyway) About Trash and Landfills

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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Riverkeeper Protects Hudson River and Works to Improve New York City's Drinking Water

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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Visit New York City's 3 Botanical Gardens

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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Top 12 Staycations in Queens, NY

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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