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23 shopping days left until Christmas! If you’re still looking for the perfect eco-friendly gift for friends, loved ones or those you’re just socially obligated to buy for, here’s a list of green gift suggestions: Bamboo Sheets: Of course we’re going to start by singing the praises of bamboo bedding and bamboo clothes! Made from [...]
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An informed consumer is a true friend of the environment. But with the amount of information floating around both on the internet and through word-of-mouth, those wanting to make smart choices can easily be overwhelmed and misled. Thankfully, a new guide is on the market to help! Calling itself the “ultimate eco-fiber reference guide for [...]
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Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached an all-time high of 33 billion tons in 2010, according to a new report. Despite a one percent drop in 2009, which fueled some absurd talking points among global warming deniers, 2010 more than made up for it with a staggering five percent increase. Together, the industrialized nations who [...]
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Legend has it that centuries ago, the wandering samurai, the Japanese warriors, would soothe their tired feet with TakeFumi. TakeFumi was not a practice requiring a special piece of armor or something that had to be carried with them on their travels. Rather it was a piece of the ever-plentiful bamboo cut from the roadside [...]
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Since last week I took time to criticize popular attitudes toward birth, it seems appropriate that today I would discuss the topic of death. I’ve just suffered the devastating and sudden loss of a dearly beloved pet, and I was suddenly faced with the difficult question of how to handle his remains. I initially opted [...]
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There are small companies nationwide looking to not only make a profit but to help make the world a greener place. And while branding plays a large part in what consumers see as green, let’s reflect on companies whose actions speak louder than words. Not to toot our own horn (or at least not to [...]
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What gift do you give to the couple who has everything? Well, apparently, you give trees. Eco-friendly (and proud) parents Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy have requested that in lieu of products, friends and family should plant “celebration trees” to honor the birth of son Bingham. Considering the ecological footprint left by the onslaught of [...]
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The U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph, ran an opinion piece earlier this week alleging that the entire bamboo textile industry is guilty of greenwashing its products and making false claims of eco-friendliness. I’ll be the first to acknowledge that greenwashing is a very real phenomenon that many companies from many industries engage in as a way [...]
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While we had every intention of building a simple bamboo shade structure over the past two weeks, the extreme heat had us avoiding the sun altogether and shunning garden work. And in hiding from the sun, enjoying some eco-friendly beer I must admit, our dreams of garden structures grew from simple shade structure to full [...]
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I’m not exactly a connoisseur of technology. The very fact that I blog for Green Earth Bamboo should attest to the fact that I am much more interested in nature and the environment than product specs and release dates. That’s not to say that I think the two concerns must be mutually exclusive. I’ve known [...]
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Well now that Lindsay Lohan is doing it…… To escape the paparazzi and prying eyes of law enforcement, Lohan spent the last days of her house arrest behind a rooftop bamboo fence. Privacy aside, there are many reasons that a bamboo fence may be the right choice for your backyard. Bamboo fencing adds a sustainable [...]
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It’s possible to make your workout good for both your body and for Mother Earth. Choosing bamboo clothing will give you the option of wearing a sustainable fabric as well as an excellent moisture-wicking one! Using a bamboo water bottle lets you save hundreds of plastic water bottles from the landfill. And now there are [...]
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If we’re to believe all the Home Depot and Lowe’s Home Improvement Ads, then apparently summer is the time for maniac DIY projects and the slumbering weekend warriors with their hammers and nails have awoken from a long winter’s nap. While some might tackle some seriously ambitious projects like a new deck (i.e.- my neighbors), [...]
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Kung Fu Panda is back in the 2nd film of the popular DreamWorks series and once again we get to follow the adventures of our favorite bamboo munching hero as he continues his quest to become a dragon warrior and (in this film) to find his birth parents so he can truly know who he [...]
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Last week, Oprah taped the finale of her talk show. “Thank you is not enough, but thank you,” she told 13,000 onlookers. “For your love and your support, thank you.” The show has run for twenty-five years, and changed the face of daytime television forever more. Here’s a secret: I’m a man that loves Oprah. [...]
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Memorial Day, the official start of summertime fun, is a day full of barbecues inaugurating a entire season grilling. Three out of four households own at least one barbecue grills and nationwide, at the peak of grilling season on the Fourth of July, there will be 60 million barbecues occurring throughout the United States. On [...]
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For Republicans, it seems like anti-environmentalism isn’t just an incidental consequence of their policies and beliefs. Instead, it seems to be a platform unto itself, a way of securing votes, and a way of simplifying another issue to the unreasoning mentality of “us against them.” And in a case like that, it doesn’t matter if [...]
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In a land of excess, it would be easy to indulge in whims rather than make serious environmental choices. And many celebrity estates do boast excess with everything from golden toilets (not kidding!) to private landing strips but thankfully some celebs take their purchasing power seriously and have opted for sustainability, resource conservation and “green” [...]
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