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Handmade Holidays 2010 – Who’s With Me?

Ginny Figlar Colón by Ginny Figlar Colón | December 13th, 2010 | No Comments
topic: Giving Back, Green Living | tags: art, Buy Handmade, christmas, crafts, crocheted coffee cup cozy, eco-friendly presents, etsy, fair-trade, gifts, green gift guide, hand painted, handcrafted, handmade, Hanukkah, holiday, holidays, homemade, jewelty, paint, photo book, posters, prints, recycled, silver pendant, Small Business Saturday, sustainable, wooden iPad stand, wooden school bus

Knitted coffee cosy

With the creation of Small Business Saturday this year (and its huge following!), there’s another movement taking shape this holiday season: Buy Handmade. At www.buyhandmade.org, people around the world are pledging to buy handmade gifts for loved ones this holiday season and ask that others do the same for them.

Should You Use Fruit and Veggie Wash?

Leslie Garrett by Leslie Garrett | February 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment
topic: Green Living, Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: buy local, DIY, do it yourself, fruit, homemade, make your own, organic, pesticide-free, produce, recipe, vegetables

Get good-looking strawberries like this with a homemade fruit and veggie wash

It’s not that my mind isn’t teeming with important thoughts. It is. I read literature. I watch documentaries. I bandy about intellectual ideas with my Ph.D.-waving friends.

But that doesn’t seem to stop my mind from obsessing about the little things.

For example, just this morning I was picking up a few things at the market. I noticed a bottle – from an eco-conscious company – of fruit and veggie wash.

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