Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Learn about eco-friendly flooring options to minimize indoor pollution and mitigate health problems caused by toxic carpets.
eco-friendly flooring

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Before you take a bite into your food, learn about GMOs and crops being affected by them.
GMOs, food, healthy food, salmon, wheat, potatoes

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Market your yard sale, grab friends and family, and more!

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Think about green places to discard your furniture, instead of the dump.
recycling, decluttering, housecleaning, moving

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Patti Moreno, the "Garden Girl,” wants you to know urban gardening is easier than you think and will help you grow some food on your own.
urban gardening

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Check out these tips for proper herbal remedy use and give your garden another purpose.
herbalism, herbs, remedies, illness, recipes, farms, health

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) When refinancing, break away from mega-banks. Get your mortgage through a community development financial institution (CDFI).
cdfi

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Feel as good buying your clothing as you do in them. Trust these certified brands to give you quality and sustainable clothing.
clothing, fashion, green business

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Instead of throwing everything in the trash, take a second look at items and see if there is another use for them.
recycling

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Here are Green America’s top five high-impact ways to green your dog or cat.
sustainable pet

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) A great example of taking old objects and making them new again.
bikes, cycling, cooperative

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Three women who bring their families together through a brilliant idea.
food, meals, dinner, healthy food, potluck, family, cooperative

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) An ingenious way to join as a community.

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Bring your community together and aid elders, children, and pets.
cooperative, community, car sharing

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Bottled water comes with hefty social and environmental costs. Here’s why bottled water isn’t worth the price many pay for it.
bottled water

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) If you choose the right filter, you can minimize or eliminate the contaminants of highest concern. Here’s what you need to know about water filters.
water filters

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) A toxic candle can affect your personal health as well as home appliances. To protect yourself and your home, make sure your candles are safe.
non-toxic candles

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) My colleagues Martha van Gelder and Tracy Fernandez Rysavy have been sharing their experience with kicking the sugar habit on this blog for the past week or so. We’ve all been delving deeply into sugar issues recently, working to prepare “…
sugar, fair trade, organic food

Piece (March 30, 2017 )   A small bit of light came out of Bangladesh today in the wake of the Rana Plaza building collapse that has to date killed at least 244 people—most of them garment factory workers making clothes for US retailers. The CBC reports that 40…
Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Accord

Piece (March 30, 2017 )   Last Friday, the US State Department released its 2014 Global Trafficking in Persons Report—an annual report that documents human trafficking around the world and each country’s efforts to combat the issue. In this report, State downgraded…
Thailand, fishing, fair labor