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Aug 2008 ![]() And better for you. Yes, you can have strawberries all year round, but they are much better and actually special when you wait for the first local crop to show up at the farmer’s market. They’ll taste better and be better, because they will get to grow locally and ripen in the sun, to be picked only hours before you bring them home. That’s food that is good, seasonal, and sustainable.
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Aug 2008 For me, it started about a year ago at my favorite SuperFresh store. I saw the colorful sacks hanging next to the registers and knew, for only $1 each, I must have them. ![]() From then on I’ve found the reusable bag an invariable craze, with chains like Target, and even the lesser-known Acme market jumping on board. What is it about these bags that make them such a hot item, besides their colorful pictures and handy design? Of course their marketing as reusable and eco-friendly is a sure seller, helping to reduce thousands of pounds of extraneous plastic waste, but what is in the bags themselves that make them so “green?” Here I’ll go in-depth into some of our favorite reusable bags.
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Aug 2008 ![]() The more you have to clean, the more you realize that simple cleaning routines make you most efficient and most effective. If you have a closet full of cleaning supplies that you must dig through every time you need to wipe down the bathroom, you’re wasting time. If you have a collection of cheaply made cleaning tools that don’t really do the job, you’re wasting time. I don’t know anyone who has lots of extra time to waste, and for most of us, cleaning is the last thing we want to spend much time on, anyway.
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Aug 2008 ![]() This kind of lifestyle is opposed to a commercialized, consumerist mindset that says, "Ask a professional," or "Buy something new." Sometimes you do need a professional, but not always. Sometimes it's best to buy something new, but not every time. Until you make it your habit to start going through some problem-solving steps yourself, first, you'll find that you keep wasting time, money, and energy on unnecessary items and activities. Natural fixes can be applied to any area of life in the right situation: diaper rash on your baby's bum, hay fever, a broken pot handle, a boring relationship. Let's look quickly at the main categories: 1) Health, 2) Stuff, and 3) People.
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Aug 2008 ![]() Yikes. We can do better than that, don't you think? Again, let's start with simple.
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Aug 2008 I consider myself a pretty eco-friendly gal, even in the college environment, where extraneous energy use is a very real problem. Over the next few weeks I would like to document some of the ways schools are helping their students be conscious environmental citizens. ![]() In high school I imagined college as a place filled with stacks of essays, papers littering my desk, page after page of thesis material printed and ready to give me credit for all my hard work. But the reality is as an English major in this technology age, the number of papers I have physically handed in to my professors is a whopping 1. |
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