Can you actually live without a microwave oven?

Can you actually live without a microwave oven

By Linda Cornelius ecogal Author and Designer The answer is: yes, you can! It’s just a question of being smart and getting all the same benefits but in different ways, and here are a few of your quick and easy options: Replace the microwave with a smart oven The specialty of a smart oven is…

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Shopping wisely: a few tips for the new year and new you

Shopping wisely: a few tips for the new year and new you

By Linda Cornelius ecogal Author and Designer When I shop, I often make it known to shop owners if I would like to see a product on their shelves. This way I inform them of my eco/green wishes and create a vision for them: by offering more desired goods, the customers would buy them. And…

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Filter your own safe drinking water instantly

Michael Pritchard - Filter your own safe drinking water instantly

Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. Find out more at LifeSaverSystems.com

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How Cooking Can Change Your Life

Michael Pollan: How Cooking Can Change Your Life

Two great videos to watch, shared via RSA. The RSA is a non-profit organisation working to meet 21st century challenges by showcasing ideas, undertaking innovative research and building civic capacity around the world. Can you really have your cake and eat it? According to Michael Pollan, you can. In this fun RSA Short, Pollan explains…

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The story of stuff: bottled water

The Story of stuff: Bottled Water

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand — how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film…

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