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Meat production and its effects on the environment and our health
Cutting back on meat consumption goes a long way toward helping the environment and living healthier.
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Green Community Calendar weekend events
Green After Dark, ‘Red Wine, Green Art’ exhibit, Sierra Club holiday gala, and more.
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‘Red Wine, Green Art’: Holiday wine tasting and recycled art exhibit at Whole Foods Tampa: Sat., Dec. 10
Showcasing festive food and wines and creative, eco-friendly works by local artists.
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Ybor IKEA to go solar
The company says the solar panels will be the energy equivalent of powering 154 homes.
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What is “slow money”?
Connecting investors to their local economies by marshaling financial resources to invest in small food enterprises and local food systems.
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Can using thorium instead of uranium make nuclear energy safer?
Advocates of thorium to power nuclear plants say that the element is safer than uranium, and that its waste cannot be re-formulated for nuclear weapons.
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Green Community Calendar weekend events
Aquaponic farm tour, holiday fair, fresh markets and more.
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DIY Green: Create a unique holiday wreath from recycled and found items
Reuse found items and things you’d otherwise throw in the trash to upcycle into an attractive wreath to don your door.
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‘Green’ walls: Utilizing plants to create vertical vegetable “gardens”
They filter air and water, soak up carbon dioxide and help lessen the “heat island” effect of urban areas.
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Green Community Calendar weekend events
Gulfport’s Green Alternative Market, workshops and more.
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Find great green holiday gifts from nonprofit organizations
Find a wide range of gifts from green and environmental nonprofits that use the proceeds to fund important work and from green companies online.
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DIY Green: Upcycled Thanksgiving tablescape (video)
Create a Thanksgiving tablescape using paper grocery bags and other found items.
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Species loss accelerating globally
Eminent Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson says that fully half of the planets higher life forms could be gone within 100 years.
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Green Community Calendar weekend events
Sustainable Buzz, Buy Local Bazaar, Pasco EcoFest and more!
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Infographic: Anatomy of a Genetically Modified Turkey
A few eyebrow-raising statistics about your holiday main course.
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‘One Bottle One Dream’ aims to teach Florida kids about environmental stewardship
An educational outreach program underway in Florida Public Schools to get teach kids about recycling and the environment.
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Chemicals, pollution and rising cancer rates
Most researchers now agree that environmental factors play a significant role today in determining who gets cancer and who doesn’t.
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The nasty business of shark finning
Inhumane to sharks and dangerous to human health as they contain extremely high concentrations of mercury and other toxins.
