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Beat the Bag Tax with Ohyo and Felix Conran

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) The makers of Ohyo, the collapsible reusable water bottle, originally named “Aquatina”, together with design...

Experience: foraging nearly killed me

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‘We realised we were reacting to something we’d eaten, but as we tried to work out what, we became confused’ I went to Sicily to learn...

LA County Gets Rolling on Turning Ugly Vacant Lots Into Useful Urban Farms

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LA has been pushing for tax breaks for owners of vacant urban lots who lease out the neglected land to people who want to farm on it, and...

Rural Town Revamps Economy with Food Jobs: The Viroqua Story

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Next to Wal-Mart on the edge of rural Viroqua, Wisconsin, a 100,000-square-foot abandoned industrial building is now bustling with new b...

10 Amazing Food Co-ops Across America

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Cooperatively owned grocery stores exist all over the country. Some have thousands of members and have been around since the 1970s, and ...

Making do with less

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) It is not so much of making do with less than using what you have and having fewer possessions, especially ga...

Surgeon General's prescription for health: walkable communities

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  It's not easy to walk in much of North America; most people now live in suburbs that were designed for cars. Now the US Surgeon Ge...

6 Dos and Don'ts Of Pruning

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It could cause more harm than good to your bushes and trees. There's something about this time of the year that makes people crave...

Rethinking waste

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Waste as resource not as recyclables by Michael Smith (Veshengro) We must begin, also at home and at work, to see “waste” not as somethi...

When Is The Best Time To Plant Trees?

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Give them the best chance of survival. Many trees grow well when planted in fall, says arborist Tom Tyler of Bartlett Tree Experts. Alth...