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More Jellyfish Stings Show Our Mistreatment of Ocean Life

Jellyfish stings are beginning to be the song of the canary in the coal mine for our oceans. A rapid increase in jellyfish stings is illuminating a rise in jellyfish populations, which in turn is revealing the damage we’re doing to our oceans through over-fishing, global warming, and pollution. According the International Herald Tribune, a couple [...]

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HippyShopper – A Green Buying Guide

I just came across a website that is a great resource for any green shopper, HippyShopper.com. The website discovers and posts about various green products, helping connect green-minded people with products that support their ethical sensibilities while fulfilling whatever need it is they have to satisfy. And the website is an illustration of a larger point [...]

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Women as Greenfluencers Part 5: Garden Girl TV

Patti Moreno, AKA Garden Girl, is a woman greenfluencer at her best. As someone who loves to use my barely green thumb to grow my own veggies, I itch to learn more about being a better gardener in my small urban setting, and to know how to use the foods and herbs I grow, from [...]

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Women as Greenfluencers Part 4: Crafting

The craft revolution has taken our generation by storm. In the last few years, crafting became seriously cool. Just check out CRAFT.com, Etsy.com, the success of Ravelry.com, the popularity of Stitch ‘N Bitch groups, and so on, and you’ll see that crafting is some serious stuff. It’s also a hobby (or obsession) comprised mainly of [...]

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Women as Greenfluencers Part III: Weddings

Weddings in America is an industry worth over $40 billion (a conservative calculation), and we can just imagine the environmental impact a single wedding can have – from the resources used in non-recycleable decorations and favors, to energy consumption, to the waste going straight to landfills the very next day. Here are some mind-blowing statistics [...]

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Women as Greenfluencers Part II: Sustainable Agriculture

Women living on and working farms is nothing new. What is new are the ways in which women’s roles on a farm have changed, and how these changes are helping us return to sustainable practices. Women make up more than 25% of US farmers and ranchers, with the number of participants dramatically [...]

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