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    Jessica is a writer based in Vancouver, BC.
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    United Nations Makes NICE With Fashion Industry

    by  • February 14, 2012 • Entertainment, Home & Garden • 0 Comments

    Gisele Bundchen Eco Fashion

    In its first style-specific initiative ever, the UN and its Global Compact division have reached out to leading players in fashion to help the industry move towards a more sustainable future. Teaming up with NICE (the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical under direction of the Nordic Fashion Association), the initiative –which will be officially launched [...]

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    Green on the Red Carpet

    by  • February 2, 2012 • Entertainment • 0 Comments

    Colin Firth and Livia Firth

    Forget Real Housewives—the real story is that for the 3rd year in a row the real life wife of actor Colin Firth is bringing together top designers and celebrities in an annual ecological challenge that brings green fashion to the red carpet. GCC (Green Carpet Challenge) is the collaborative effort between Livia Firth and Vogue [...]

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    Weird Energy

    by  • January 31, 2012 • Alternative Energy • 0 Comments

    Gas to Energy

    As the world strives to find smarter and more sustainable ways to source power we turn to alternate means of energy that don’t rely on precious, harmful or wasteful practices or consumptions— means such as wind and solar energy, powering cars electrically or with vegetable oil. But on the flipside, there are always those nasty [...]

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    Bee-yonce?

    by  • January 26, 2012 • Entertainment, Science • 0 Comments

    Liv Tyler Beetle

    The buzz in bug science has gone Hollywood: recently a handful of celebs were honoured with namesake creatures, including the Robert Redford horse fly—named as such for its robust golden body. A few years ago, Stephen Colbert got a card in the mail that read: “What has six legs and is way cooler than a [...]

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    Tar Sands Tug-of-War

    by  • January 23, 2012 • Canada, International, U.S. • 3 Comments

    oil pipeline

    Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]

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    Organic Misconceptions

    by  • January 17, 2012 • Food & Nutrition, Home & Garden • 1 Comment

    Organic Vegetables

    The organics industry is young, but it is booming. So much so that even global corporations with all the finances and resources in the world (literally) have trouble filling orders under “organic” label criteria. And even that: that global corporations are part of the mix, meaning that one of the spices in your organic ketchup [...]

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    No Room For Uglies

    by  • January 12, 2012 • Food & Nutrition • 1 Comment

    Cornfield

    Tucked away into a corner of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside is a flourishing market of badly bruised vegetables, where you can buy an entire bag of rainbow peppers with four bunches of organic spinach for a Twoonie. I come home with two reusable shopping bags full of produce for what used to cost me one [...]

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    50 Uses for Vinegar

    by  • January 9, 2012 • Home & Garden • 7 Comments

    Vinegar Bottle

    I started off 2012 in a really great way: with a hearty case of tonsillitis! </sarcasm> Sitting puffy-necked at the clinic, the doctor prescribed me a bottle of expensive chemical medicinals but also took time to recommend more natural remedies, which I appreciated. You know them: ginger, lemon, oil of oregano.  “Back in my day,” [...]

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    New Years’ Resolutions with a Green Twist

    by  • January 5, 2012 • Home & Garden • 0 Comments

    Green New Years Resolutions

    The laments of January are – by the same token – locked into its inspirations: I’m talking of course about the New Years’ Resolutions. It’s January 5, 2012. Across the planet today people are sore from newly over-worked muscles and the fury of nicotine withdrawals. But sometimes distraction can be a diamond; so why not [...]

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    Top 5 Eco Innovations of 2011

    by  • December 30, 2011 • Building, Business, Green Technology, Home & Garden, Other Energy, Science • 2 Comments

    Biome Terrarium

    Being green is still a relatively new philosophy; so much so, that there is still ample opportunity to both create new and improve upon existing home, lifestyle, style and technology products that focus on environmentally-smart form and function. Throughout 2011 we saw industry and innovation that turned up the aesthetic and performance notches on basic [...]

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