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    Featured Article: Home & Garden

    Make It A Green St. Patrick's Day

    The color of St. Patrick's Day is undeniably green. People parade around in green clothing, paint themselves green, eat green foods and drink green beer. While the color takes center stage every March 17, it's also come to represent eco-living

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    OnTV: Renovation Nation, Tonight at 6pm/e

    Break the Lock on Steve's Journal

    Steve goes behind the scenes of the show and offers additional tips and insight on green renovation

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    Featured View & Vote: Tech & Transport

    The Electric Cars Driving the Future

    Take a look at the most cutting-edge vehicles from the Geneva Motor Show, then vote for your favorite

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    On TV: Life Premiers Sunday, March 21 8PM e/p

    Life as You've Never Seen it on Planet Green

    Life, the groundbreaking documentary series from the Discovery Channel and the BBC will be simulcast on Planet Green

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    OnTV: Operation Wild, Tonight at 8pm/e

    Playing with the Tools of the Trade

    Facing down poachers one minute then capturing wayward animals the next is no simple task. To make their job a little easier the officers of Florida Fish and Wildlife use some wild tools

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    Featured Article: Food & Health

    How a Piece of Paper is Revolutionizing Blood Tests

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Making Meals Out of Weeds: Molecular Gastronomists Making Sustainable Ingredients Taste Like the Junk Food We All Want to Keep Eating

POSTED  8 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

Future Food chefs Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche want to decentralize food production. "You can make a meal out of weeds that grow on your front lawn," they say, and these molecular gastronomists won't stop until they figure out how to make that happen on a mass scale. + READ MORE

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Starving Sea Lions (Video News)

POSTED  9 HOURS AGO   IN PLANET-100

Welcome to the Planet 100 for March 16, 2010. Today, dozens of sick and hungry sea lions have washed up on California's coastlines, Americans get serious about recycling, and air pollution hinders women's marathon times. + READ MORE

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Raise a Greener Glass This St. Patrick's Day

POSTED  9 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

If the approaching St. Patrick's Day holiday has you dreaming of leprechauns, shamrocks and quaffing a wee pint (or two) of green beer, making a few key choices can help lead to you to the green pot o' gold and a tasty, more planet-friendly holiday. + READ MORE

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There's Going To Be a Little Less Cancer in Your Shampoo

POSTED  10 HOURS AGO   IN FASHION & BEAUTY

If you track toxins in personal care products like baseball fans track box scores, then you'll remember the hubbub last year when the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics announced results from lab tests finding a pesky little contaminant called 1,4-dioxane in a whole host of children's bath products. + READ MORE

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Go Green For St. Patrick's Day - Natural Dyes Make Green Beer Greener!

POSTED  10 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

Many food dyes used in the US and Canada are banned throughout other parts of the world. Can we now drink green beer with a green conscious? + READ MORE

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Drink Your Beer the Tasty and Sustainable Way on St. Patrick's Day

POSTED  10 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

Syracuse, New York, the city in the United States with the highest per-capita St. Patrick's Day celebration, starts the festivities with a delivery of green-colored beer to a prominent Irish pub. Fortunately, you don't have to visit Coleman's Irish Pub, or stock up on food coloring, to drink green... + READ MORE

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Colcannon

POSTED  11 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

I know it seems an unlikely way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, because Colcannon is often served at Halloween, but I had the cabbage and it's a traditional Irish dish. + READ MORE

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Gotta Love Sunday Brunch: Light and Fluffy Chocolate Chip Pancakes

POSTED  11 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

Get the secret for making delicious chocolate chip pancakes, just in time for Sunday brunch. + READ MORE

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5 Ways to Value Hemp

POSTED  12 HOURS AGO   IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS

Despite industrial hemp's proven, well-documented value, it cannot be commercially grown in the United States. + READ MORE

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Slash is Back In April, With a Celebrity CD to Rival 'We Are The World'

POSTED  13 HOURS AGO   IN INSTRUMENTAL

Top-hatted, snake-loving Slash jams with his animal-loving self, and others, on new disc. + READ MORE

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Step Inside Garbage Dreams. Learn the Zaballeen Recycle 80 Percent of Trash

POSTED  13 HOURS AGO   IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS

"Garbage Dreams" documents the life of the Zaballeen, which means the garbage people in Arabic. Cairo is a city of 18 million people with no organized trash removal system. But thanks to the Zaballen people who populate the largest working trash village in the world, Mokattam, 80 percent of the... + READ MORE

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Be a Philanthropist! 10 Fantastic Eco-Minded Projects In Need of a Kickstart

POSTED  13 HOURS AGO   IN WORK & CONNECT

It is easy to search Kickstart to find a project you feel passionate about. But knowing you're a green thinker, we found some really interesting, diverse, and environmentally themed projects in need of your help. Check them out and see if any spark the philanthropist in you. + READ MORE

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Where Does Your Milk Come From? Find Out The Real Source of Your Dairy Products

POSTED  13 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

Where exactly are the cows that make the milk you're drinking, or the yogurt you're snacking on for lunch? A handy website called Where Is My Milk From? will tell you. + READ MORE

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Prepare A Traditional Irish Stew for St. Patrick's Day

POSTED  14 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

One of my closest friends lives in Ireland and she was surprised the first year she was there just how important and serious St. Patrick's Day is there. I think she was surprised because here in North America everyone uses it as an excuse to drink too much beer and wear silly green clothes, whether... + READ MORE

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"Cook Food": A Manualfesto for Easy, Health, Local Eating (Interview)

POSTED  14 HOURS AGO   IN FOOD & HEALTH

"With a conversational, do-it-yourself vibe, a practical approach to everyday cooking on a budget, and a whole bunch of animal-free recipes, Cook Food will have you cooking up a storm, tasting the difference, thinking globally and eating locally." + READ MORE

 
 
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