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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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Project Green-way

On last week’s episode of Project Runway (which Bravo seems to have on heavy rotation and should be easily re-watchable), the contestants were challenged to create a “green” cocktail dress. Designers were instructed to use materials that are environmentally conscious and derived from natural materials. As a result, most pieces were constructed from organic cotton [...]

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Sweet Green Charity

When I got married, I made it a point to make the entire ordeal as green as possible.  Organic flowers, food from a local farm, organic cotton wedding dress, the works. As far as the wedding favors went, it was a toss-up between tulip bulbs and charity donations in the guests’ names.  As I was [...]

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Green Cleaning Products

I noticed in the local supermarket the other day that there are a lot of green cleaning products popping up on the market. These products claim to be safer for humans, pets, and the planet in general but cost much higher than regular cleaning products. With the economy being as bad as it is right [...]

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Bra-Vo!

I shared a story in a previous blog about how I worked in an arts and crafts room for a summer day camp and how we reused pretty much everything we could for our beautiful craft projects and I remembered a cute story of one such a reusable item.  My assistant and I were going [...]

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