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Published January 1, 2010 at 2:43 pm No Comments
The Green Connoisseur would like to wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2010. We have officially moved our daily entries to The Green Connoisseur homepage. You will no longer see new content at this URL. We hope you will bookmark The Green Connoisseur and visit us frequently. In closing,
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published December 10, 2009 at 7:41 pm No Comments
On January 1, 2010, The Green Connoisseur Blog will be moving . Look for new content each and every weekday at The Green Connoisseur. A heart-felt thank you goes out to all our loyal readers who have been following us over this past year.
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published December 5, 2009 at 6:18 pm No Comments
We are happy to announce that, as of January 1, 2010, all daily blog entries will be viewed on The Green Connoisseur homepage. We appreciate all of you who have so loyally visited us on a daily basis. We look forward to a long and enlightening partnership between The Green Connoisseur and you,
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published November 24, 2009 at 1:46 pm No Comments
Green Week
The popular television network NBC has declared the week of November 15th “Green Week.” (http://www.nbc.com/green/) From environmental themed shows to public service announcements on how to be more sustainable, NBC spent last week trying to inform the public and make a difference.
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“The more you know” has long been the catchphrase for NBC’s public service
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Fashion & Accessories Health and Wellness Lifestyle Mind Organizations and Events
Published November 5, 2009 at 11:13 am No Comments
When it comes to green lifestyles, there’s often a pretty serious aesthetic schism: on one hand, there are the crafters who prefer to make almost everything by hand, and on the other, high-end green consumers purchase luxury products with sustainable pedigrees. For those who long to bring the worlds of DIY and eco-chic closer together,
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Fashion & Accessories Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published September 27, 2009 at 3:38 am No Comments
You’re a bride-to-be planning a vintage wedding, and eco-friendly is a must for you. While you could opt for a reproduction created from organic or sustainable materials, why not take the extra step to wear an authentic gown?
Re-using vintage gowns is a wonderful way to ‘green’ your wedding, and there are a multitude of
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published September 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm No Comments
According to the New Economics Foundation (Nef), yesterday marked this year’s ecological debt day. From now until the end of 2009, all natural resources consumed by our global population are above and beyond the amount that should have lasted the entire year at a sustainable usage rate.
Society has been in debt to the planet
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published September 25, 2009 at 5:26 am No Comments
I’ve blogged about “No Impact Man” Colin Beavan recently, but had I known what an exciting development was about to take place in his project, I would have waited. While it’s been a while since Beavan and his family undertook the project of living a year in NYC with an ecological impact as close to
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published September 22, 2009 at 4:17 am 1 Comment
With more and more corporations making an effort to go green, more products used by these corporations are being made in eco-friendly ways.
These green products are more widely available now, making it even easier for those corporations to pursue a greener image and help out the environment. Below are a few must-have eco-friendly products
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Lifestyle Organizations and Events
Published September 5, 2009 at 3:53 am No Comments
If you’re like me and find yourself endlessly browsing the internet for interesting tidbits at the strangest of times, here are some blogs and other resources you can rely on for hours of online reading enjoyment:
Michael Pollan, author of localvore bible The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the recent In Defense of Food, and several other books, has
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