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Give green greens
Giving someone a bunch of their favorite blooms should not make you (or them) feel guilty. But just because they're "from nature" does not mean the gift is natural. The pesticides and energy involved in growing tulips and shipping them to your corner florist aren't insignificant. If blossoms are a must, try taking the green(er) route and buy or ship your loved one an organic bouquet. These flower arrangements are shipped locally, grown organically by Fair Trade farmers, and packaged in environmentally responsible vases, tissue paper and boxes.
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Nose-to-nose with the source at Vela
Vinophiles have a glut of wine dinners around town at any given day of the week. Beer advocates, in kind, enjoy the occasional brewery dinner. Many Boston restaurants sport impressive eco-friendly practices and remarkably local and sustainable menus. Yet a new concept takes the special occasion of the paired food feast to a specific green spotlight: local businesses and their purveyance of the seasonal and the special.
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Fortifyng teh city, one muffin @ a tiem
A bleedingly fresh strawberry-rhubarb crisp prepared by pastry chef and baker Lesli Turock showcases locally grown seasonal produce these days at Haley House Bakery Café. Saddle up with a mugful of Equal Exchange coffee or hot cocoa, and you'll be doing your small—yet palpable—part to support Haley House's nonprofit multi-service advocacy in aiding members of Boston's low-income and underemployed community.
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Pop-up cup springy, sproingy
Straight out of the package, this looks like one of those containers my mom put Cheerios in when I was a toddler. But with a simple twist, the bright red plastic disc turns into an eco-friendly mini-tumbler. The bottom of the cup sits in the hard lower part and sort of grows out of the base, creating an easy-to-grip glass with a hard rim (great for spillers).
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Museum of Science goes craaazy for Earth Month
Global warming is the new terrorism — everybody loves to hate it. Yet it's with good reason, especially when the fate of our planet is at stake.
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It's time to get a little gassy
This thing arrived in a box approximately the size of a small child. At first I was kind of skeptical—a carbonation machine to make homemade seltzer? These kinds of doodads have been around forever ... what century is this? After unpacking the lot, including the "Edition 1" Soda-Club machine, the bottles of carbon dioxide, some carbonating bottles and approximately a zillion little flavoring options, we declared war against still water and went on a gassing spree.
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Natural fertilizer Wormjava starts from the ground up
Sunnye Dreyfus, worm wrangler, can also be referred to as "the casting director." Castings, apparently, serve as a dry euphemism for tiny worm craps. Founder of Wormjava—"it's 'poop in a bottle,'" she explains—Dreyfus cultivates the nutritious byproduct from her cadre of half a million "red wiggler" (eisenia foetida) worms. The critters are remarkably self-sustaining (they double their population in about 90 days), and the resulting Wormjava product is a liquid mixture of worm poop and water, to "pour on anything, from an aloe plant to a tree growing in your backyard—indoor, outdoor, pretty versatile," says Beverly-based Dreyfus.
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Hostelling International Boston lessens tourists' footprints
The next time you have friends in town—particularly those of the "leave no trace" traveling brethren—it would be worthwhile to consider Hostelling International Boston's accommodations, where they have begun greeting environmentalists with open arms but turning paper coffee cups away at the door.
"We have a vision statement that calls for us to be stewards of the earth and its resources, so it just seemed appropriate," says general manager Bob Sylvia about the hostel's eco-friendly initiative.
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Hope in a bottle
On any given night in with friends, a few bottles of something swell are usually, inevitably, drained. Putting the bottles out with the rest of the glass recycling is enough to make one feel virtuous. However, the tranSglass line of glasswares (like vases, tumblers and carafes—but does anyone really own one of those?), designed by Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden for Artecnica, manages to give reused glass a fancy step up.
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The walls have cheers
AURA PAINT BY BENJAMIN MOORE | $55/GALLON
Stinky, sticky, messy. Anyone who's painted a house can explain the thrilling process involved throughout. However, a lot of the brain- and environment-killing fumes are due to high levels of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) in the goop.
Although you can find no- to low-VOC paints from several manufacturers, I give props to behemoth paintmaker Benjamin Moore for its more eco-friendly Aura line.
