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From pedals to petals, Green Earth News has more eco-friendly news for you. Roughly 182 million stems of flowers are sold each Valentine’s Day so odds are good that there is a bouquet in your house right now. As beautiful as they are, flowers only last so long. The question then becomes what to do [...]
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Baskets are wonderful additions to a home. They are not only beautiful decorations but they are also very functional and can serve as storage for magazines, remotes or as a display for your homemade potpourri. Put your backyard bamboo to beautiful use and weave your own bamboo basket. Get started now and it might be [...]
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What is Valentine’s Day if you don’t get chocolates? However, when you are done eating them (and enjoying yourself in your comfortable and stretchy bamboo yoga pants), what do you do with the box? The most important thing to remember is to not throw the box away! There are several ways you can reuse your [...]
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For those of you just waking from your Super Bowl stupor, I’d like to give you official warning that Valentine’s Day is just 6 days away! What started out as a pagan holiday to celebrate fertility has transformed into a mass-marketed holiday that delights florists, chocolatiers and Hallmark stores worldwide. So since you must use [...]
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Happy New Year (again)! February 3 rings in the Year of the Rabbit with the Chinese New Year! The holiday is rife with symbolism that brings in good luck or keeps you safe from bad luck. Give candied fruit to your friends and family including red watermelon seeds that symbolize joy and happiness, truth and [...]
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With the New Year starting, it is time to make some new traditions in your home. One thing that often gets over looked is the seasonal décor that you no longer plan on using. We will be taking down our Christmas tree this week, and that got me thinking: what do you do with your [...]
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Whether it’s a shirt two sizes too small or a pink bunny suit from Aunt Muriel, some gifts you received this holiday season may not be your style or your taste. However, there are many ways to get value from your unwanted gifts and keep them from the landfill! Reselling, swapping, and re-gfiting are much [...]
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Eco-friendly beer and eco-friendly wine options abound but for New Years Eve, it’s time for a fancier libation. There’s nothing that signifies celebration better than the popping of a champagne cork! Champagne is essentially wine-making taken one step further. It is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of the wine to [...]
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With it being the last week of December, it is time to start looking at New Year’s resolutions for next year. When coming up with what you want to do differently next year, make sure you include one or two (or even ten) of the following green resolutions: I will change all of my light [...]
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After all of our holiday parties, I know that I find that we have a ton of food leftover. It makes you realize how much food we waste on a daily basis. According to the author of American Wasteland, we waste enough food each day to fill up the Rose Bowl. (If you have never [...]
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At any given time, there are almost half a million people flying commercial airlines to destinations worldwide. And at Christmas time, it always seems that those half-million are flying out of my local airport on the same day as I am. On the plus side, it’s great for people-watching and I am always amused to [...]
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With all the presents you bought for the holidays from organic pajamas to bamboo sheets, you now have to decide how to wrap them all! There are some ways you can make your wrapping more eco-friendly. First, be mindful of what you use to stuff your packages. Instead of using Styrofoam peanuts or plastic bubble [...]
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Christmas is this week and I hope you have all your Christmas shopping done! If not, we have some great ideas to help you with those missing gifts you still need. And none of these ideas will require you to go to the busy mall to get an over packaged gift. Instead, these simple gifts [...]
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The Philippines have the distinction of celebrating the world’s longest Christmas season. Carols can be heard as early as September and the Christmas season ends on Feast of Santo Nino held on the 3rd Sunday of January. Christmas Day is preceded by nine days of dawn masses to show one’s devotion to God. And rather [...]
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The holiday season doesn’t have to be a burden on the environment. Making small changes in what we do can lower the impact of this holiday season. Replace your holiday lights with energy efficient LED lights. According to Energy Star, holiday LED lights consume about 70% less energy and last up to 10 times longer [...]
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17 days until Christmas! Still plenty of time to find the perfect gift for that certain someone and along with that perfect gift, give the message of responsibility and sustainability by choosing an environmentally friendly present like the ones listed below. Proving that eco-friendly can still be fashionable, the ‘Socorro’ handbag from Escama Studio is [...]
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Green Earth Bamboo would like to take a moment to wish you all a Happy Holiday Season and New Year! May you be blessed with new beginnings, prosperous adventures and abundance and love in 2010! Let’s all strive to continue to work toward making our Earth a better place for future generations to come. Merry [...]
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Worldwide, there are hundreds of ways to celebrate the holiday season. From the Irish practice of placing candles in the window to the decorating of the Christmas bush in Australia, cultures all have their own way of observing the season. While you may have your own traditions for Christmas day, why not incorporate bamboo to [...]
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