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Get Genetically Engineered Vaccines Out of Organic Food!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: gmo, gmo vaccines, organic, protection, vaccines, food )

Julie
- 1 day ago - capwiz.com
Genetic engineering is excluded from organic, with one exception: genetically modified vaccines. The Organic Consumers Association is taking action to call on the USDA to train certifiers to identify genetically modified vaccines and block their use.
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How to Slow Down Fast Food in Your Own Back Yard
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food safety, environment, food, health, safety, risks, research, protection, nutrition, GMO, food, organic, healthy, Sustainabililty, home, children )

Organic
- 2 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
A new report and how-to guide has come out about how we can fight the influence of big fast food companies on a local level--and win!
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UK---Teabags Targeted for New Compost Scheme
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green, greenliving, greenproducts, recycling, humans, coolstuff, eco-friendly, Sustainabililty, food, environment )

Cal
- 2 days ago - guardian.co.uk
New campaign to persuade Britons to recycle teabags instead of throwing them in the bin launched by PG Tips owner Unilever
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How An Organic Egg Farm Established a New Pecking Order
Green Lifestyle  (tags: sustainable, greenproducts, organic, recycling, green, greenliving, interesting, food, garden )

Alice
- 9 days ago - instructazine.com
Faced with losing their farm, a family changed their business model and now, two decades later, they sell more than 180 million organic eggs a year.
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5 Invasive Plants You Can Eat
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, environment, food, greenliving, protection, Sustainabililty )

Kathy
- 9 days ago - treehugger.com
The logic of eating wild plants is obvious; the logic of eating invasive wild plants is even more so. Culling aggressive species that have a negative impact on native plants, while avoiding the environmental pitfalls of agriculture? And free, local and-->
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Spain's "Indignados" Take To The Streets Again
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green, food, garden, Spain, Indignados, protest, economic system, unjustice, community garden, 15M, crisis, mortgage, environment )

Naoko
- 13 days ago - ipsnews.net
A filthy vacant lot is now sprouting strawberries, tomatoes and carrots. This small community garden in the center of the southern Spanish city of Malaga was created by the "Indignados" protest movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary..
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EPA Red Lights Palm Oil
Green Lifestyle  (tags: CO2emissions, conservation, ecosystems, energy, environment, food, Sustainabililty, world, palm oil, deforestation )

Kathy
- 14 days ago - loe.org
The Environmental Protection says that palm oil based biofuel does not meet renewable fuel standards. Jeremy Martin, senior researcher at the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the agency's new ruling on the biofuel to-->
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Urban Farming Takes Root In Brazil's Favelas
Green Lifestyle  (tags: greenproducts, green, food, garden, Brazil, urban farming, self-efficiency, Favelas, women, their own, environment, children, health, nutrition )

Naoko
- 23 days ago - ipsnews.net
Women of one of the poorest neighborhood of this city 40km north of Lio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as organic urban gardening takes off in Brazil.
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Grow a Good-Mood Garden
Green Lifestyle  (tags: CoolStuff, eco-friendly, environment, food, garden, green, health, home )

Kathy
- 29 days ago - organicgardening.com
Just being outside, whether you're gardening, exercising, or simply taking a stroll, is a great mood booster. But getting your hands dirty in a garden is so effective at combating depression that it's often used in "horticultural therapy"-->
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Salads Your Kids Just Might Eat!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: health, home, garden, food, family, globalwarming, energy )

Instructa
- 34 days ago - instructazine.com
There's just something about salads that -- there's no other way to say it -- many kids don't particularly enjoy. I found that combining small amounts of raw vegetables with starchy comfort foods like pasta, bread, or potatoes, or adding fresh
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OP-ED: The Folly of Big Agriculture: Why Nature Always Wins
Green Lifestyle  (tags: greenproducts, green, food, greenliving, agriculture, agri-business, business, Sustainabililty, sustainable, technology, water, environment, green, ecosystems, eco-friendly )

Cal
- 46 days ago - e360.yale.edu
Large-scale industrial agriculture depends on engineering the land to ensure the absence of natural diversity. But as the recent emergence of herbicide-tolerant weeds on U.S. farms has shown, nature ultimately finds a way to subvert uniformity and assert
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GOOD NEWS! PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Where Bees Reform Gangsters
Green Lifestyle  (tags: world, Sustainabililty, goodnews, green, greenliving, sustainable, organic, greenproducts, eco-friendly, coolstuff, business, food, society )

Cal
- 50 days ago - ipsnews.net
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), a village gang has relinquished crime and is striving to contribute to the sustainable future of the local community with a honeybee income generating initiative.
21 comments
Bottled Water Industry Wages Multi-Million Pound PR Battle Against Tap Water
Green Lifestyle  (tags: water, humans, organic, water, Sustainabililty, humans, business, green, society, food, eco-friendly )

Cal
- 52 days ago - theecologist.org
Worried by a dip in sales, Nestlé is among the companies waging a million-pound public relations war to turn the public off tap water and back onto plastic bottled water
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A Road Map to Sustainable Agriculture
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, food, garden, Sustainabililty, sustainable, green, organic, globalwarming, CO2emissions, greenliving )

Organic
- 55 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
An independent commission of scientific leaders from 13 countries released a detailed set of recommendations to policymakers on how to achieve food security in the face of climate change--and chemicals and GMOs are not on the list.
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At The Community Garden, It's Community That's The Hard Part
Green Lifestyle  (tags: garden, organic, humans, greenproducts, green, environment, eco-friendly, food, family )

Cal
- 66 days ago - npr.org
You may think that the great historic debate between communism and private property is over.Well, it's not. Not at your local community garden.
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