by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Go to a Florida tree farm and get your live tree. Why? It turns out that the live tree is the more sustainable choice (though not necessarily the cheapest, tidiest or most convenient.) Says Joe Romm of Climate Progress, “Most fake plastic trees are made of hard-to-recycle plastics such […]
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Did you know that yesterday, November 27, was the official launch of “Green Tuesday?” Me neither. GreenDeals.org creator Jonah Mytro announced the creation of this new annual shopping day dedicated to purchasing eco-friendly holiday gifts for family and friends. In the tradition of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Green
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing If you plan to sit down to a traditional Thanksgiving meal this week that includes turkey, here’s one more reason to be thankful. From a climate perspective, turkey produces far less greenhouse gas emissions than other meats like beef, pork and lamb. How much less? Feast your eyes on
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By Allison Adams in Coda One of the satisfactions of my relatively green lifestyle is that it enables me to live more frugally than I once did. Or perhaps frugal is not exactly the right word. More accurately, it gives me greater control and choice over where my dollars go. It shifts some of the
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The Buzz was a fantastic success again this year with hundreds in attendance. It is hard to believe how our informal gathering has grown in just five years! At the Straz Center, on the bank of the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa, the November 7 event featured wine, beer and food from wonderful local vendors
by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Whole Foods Market in Carrollwood is open! Driving past on November 1, I was pleased at how busy it looked. Little did I know it would take me 4 tries to get in. Every parking spot was taken, cars snaked around the parking lot, and a police car (or
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Dave Recently took a trip along the waterways of Florida and shares these pictures.
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The 5th Annual Sustainable Buzz at 6 pm on November 8 was outdoors at the Straz Center, on the Hillsborough River – the best Buzz ever! Sponsored by: Everyone enjoyed food and drink from these vendors:
by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, Business Week’s cover says it all – “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” It is good to see this topic make the front page, not just in mainstream media, but in the business media. Because while business, it can be argued, is part of
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing For a weather geek, it’s hard to think of anything right now besides Hurricane-Now-Tropical-Storm Sandy, which came ashore Monday night in Atlantic City, NJ. Even as it weakens, it continues to churn away – flooding roads, damaging buildings, and leaving millions of people without power. The destruction is New
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