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Your sweetheart deserves the best and shouldn’t be popping chemicals along with Valentine bon-bons. Buying fair trade, organic chocolates spreads the love around. more »
Champagne has long been a symbol of romance. This Valentine season, impress your enviro-honey with some of the green bubbly. more »
The Internet keeps us connected, helps us share information and reduces travel time. But it also has a big carbon footprint. It is estimated that globally it takes about 868 billion kWh of electricity per year to power. more »
Like all things eco, there is green, greener and greenest. The absolute greenest palette around is the Raw Food diet. It’s a novel way to prepare food that is delicious but also lowers your energy consumption and ecological footprint. more »
Mark Constantine, founder of LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, gives his top ten tips on how you can have a more eco-friendly bathroom. more »
Feeling blah? Irritable? Having trouble getting up in the morning or wondering what’s the point? You may have S.A.D. more »
To buy a hybrid or not to buy a hybrid? That is the eco-question. more »
It’s cold outside so why send the children out to play? Aren’t they going to get sick, hurt themselves and come back cold and miserable? Actually -- just the opposite. more »
Hockey players spend a lot of time on the road traveling from game to game and generating a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s been estimated that the average hockey player creates 10 tons of carbon emissions per season. But the game just got a little greener! more »
More people are turning to alternative or complementary therapies for natural solutions to relax, improve health, treat chronic pain or find relief from acute conditions. more »
Whether you simply need to relax, have chronic pain or an acute condition that needs treatment, there is an ’outside-of-the-box’ therapy to help. Mylinh Nguyen, B.Sc., N.D., D.N.M. from Inspired Life Health Centre created this guide of alternative therapies for Green Living readers. more »
Freezing cold one day, wet and soggy the next -- you need some winter accessories to keep you warm and dry. Pick out some fair trade gloves, mittens and scarves made with natural fibres for that cosy feeling inside and out. more »
Creating and consuming energy is going to be a hot topic in 2008 as the public starts looking for renewable power sources for homes and cars. Here are some exciting energy trends to keep an eye on. more »
Go cold with your laundry and go green with your detergent to save money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut back on harmful household chemicals. more »