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18 Jul 2011

Top 10 must see documentaries about food, animals and the environment!

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Tags: Addicted to plastic , An Inconvenient Truth , documentaries , Earthlings , Food Inc. , Forks over Knives , Home , Sharkwater , Tapped , The Cove , The world according to Monsanto

19 Apr 2011

Celebrate Earth Day 2011 by hosting “Picnic for the Planet” in your city

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Tags: bio dynamic wine , Earth Day , Earth Day 2011 , Earth Day Network , Gaylord Nelson , organic wine , picnic , Picnic for the Planet , Picnic for the Planet 2011 , The Nature Conservancy

9 Feb 2011

Why I chose to be vegetarian – An intimate look at my life

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Tags: antiobiotics , breast cancer , cancer , dairy health concerns , diet for a new america , factory farming , goveg.org , growth hormones , immune system , John Robbins , Kelly Freston , kidney problems , milk production , PCRM , seitan , Skinny Bitch , tail-docking , veal , vegetarianism

30 Nov 2010

How to reduce your eco-footprint, air pollution and waste by composting

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Tags: compost , compost montreal , composting , éco-quartier , food scraps , greenhouse gas emissions , methane , methane emissions , Nature Mill indoor composter , reduce airpollution , reduce waste , toronto composting , vancouver composting

2 Nov 2010

10 reasons why you’re not green!

Posted by UrbanGreenGirl. 15 Comments

Tags: air pollution , Consumerism , consumption habits , disposal , diva cup , energy-efficient lights , factory farms , fair-trade coffee , Greenpeace , greenwashing , hybrid vehicle , landfills , lifestyle change , MacBook , meat , meatless monday's , mining , natural resources , not-green , organic cotton tampons , PETA , production , products , recycling , reduce , rethink , reuse , story of stuff , tar sands , waste , waste reduction , water pollution

25 Nov 2009

Make Forests Count in Copenhagen through couch activism

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Tags: carbon dioxide , clear cutting , climate change , Copenhagen , deforestation , make forests count

18 Nov 2009

How to get the benefits of a car while staying eco

Posted by UrbanGreenGirl. 2 Comments

Tags: car sharing , car sharing membership , Communauto , zip car

30 Oct 2009

Cat owners rejoice – how to reuse pet food bags to reduce litter waste

Posted by UrbanGreenGirl. 4 Comments

Tags: cat food bag , litter , litter waste , pet food bag , reduce , reuse

17 Jun 2009

BIXI: not all it's cracked up to be

Posted by UrbanGreenGirl. 4 Comments

Tags: bixi bike taxi , bixi expensive , bixi montreal , bixi sucks , confusing bixi prices

9 Mar 2009

Obama admits a diet lesser in meat would reduce greenhouse gases

Posted by UrbanGreenGirl. 2 Comments

Tags: farm pollution , feed livestock , feed world's poor , greenhouse gas , meat protein , new american diet , obama , plant protein , vegan diet , world food production

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