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• Meatless Monday - Green Eggs and Tea Unilever the parent company of Lipton 's tea has recently announced that it intends to use only sustainably harvested tea leaves in the production of its many teas. This includes Britain's best selling brand PG Tips. The plan is to have the many tea growing... 05-28-2007, 10:19 AM by Katy to Daily Green 1153 Views

• Top 5 Driving Tips to Conserve Gas Cars are one of the greatest inventions for giving individuals freedom. Unfortunately because of air pollution from traditional internal combustion engines our love affair with the car needs some rethinking. Ideally, I would like to buy a car that could... 05-25-2007, 2:30 PM by Katy to Daily Green 872 Views Filed under: Energy, Transportation, News

• Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Herbicide Weeds can be really annoying, even for us greenies, and some areas where dandelions grow just aren't suited to mechanical removal . But instead of reaching for that bottle of chemicals, make your own weed killer with a few ingredients that you're sure... 05-24-2007, 8:54 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 1148 Views Filed under: Home and Garden

• New York Cabs Go Green and Idle Thoughts are Discouraged in Toronto In five years New York's yellow taxis will be looking a lot greener, starting with 1,000 hybrid cabs planned to hit the road late 2008. The remainder of the city's 13,000 cabs will be replaced with hybrids by 2012. Canadian cities on the same course Meanwhile... 05-23-2007, 9:52 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 566 Views

• Green Blockbuster Movie Season Many people think that 2007 may well be the tipping point for the environmental issues to become mainstream in North America. It hasn't taken long for Hollywood to reflect the concern about global warming by presenting movies with an environmental message.... 05-22-2007, 10:01 AM by Katy to Daily Green 424 Views Filed under: Celebrities, Energy, News

• Meatless Monday Restaurant Review - Karyn's Cooked This Meatless Monday we decided to forgo the recipe suggestions for the best kind of meal -- one someone else makes for you. You'll have to travel to Chicago for this one, as we did several weeks ago, but if you're in the area it'll be well worth it.... 05-21-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 325 Views

• Plastic Bags - The Hidden Oil in Our Economy A recent national survey determined that 72% of the American public doesn't know that the raw material for plastic bags comes from fossil fuels. In fact many of today's conventional plastic products are made from petroleum products including oil. Plastics... 05-18-2007, 12:10 PM by Katy to Daily Green 753 Views Filed under: Energy, Food and Drink, Home and Garden, News

• Best Gadgets for Chemical-Free Dandelion Removal It's a shame that a plant as useful as the dandelion has become nothing more than a nuisance to most of us, but let's face it, not many of us have the time or patience to search through our lawns and find meal-worthy greens. Those of us who wouldn't mind... 05-17-2007, 10:01 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 569 Views

• DiCaprio's 11th Hour Debuts at Cannes America's top green heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing his much-anticipated environmental film, The 11th Hour , to the Cannes Film Festival for a special screening this Saturday. And although there's no way most of us are going to make it there... 05-16-2007, 10:30 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 390 Views Filed under: Celebrities, News

• Celebrities Flaunt their Green Cred, or Lack Thereof It seems like green-tinted celebs are working overtime these days -- joining causes, donating time and money and making others aware of important issues. Many of them get a lot of flack for missteps and moments of bad judgment, but we think these entertainers... 05-15-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 489 Views Filed under: Celebrities, News

• What’s for Dinner on Meatless Mondays The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is running a campaign called Meatless Mondays . The campaign encourages everyone to replace one day of meat eating with one day of vegetarian meals and by doing so we can help prevent heart disease, stroke,... 05-14-2007, 8:05 AM by Katy to Daily Green 1073 Views Filed under: Food and Drink, Issues, News

• Unique Green Mother's Day Gifts After watching a humorous Mother's Day video that reminded me a little of myself, I realized even greenies, constantly surrounded by unique and luxurious products, might need a little help finding their mom a gift on Mother's Day . You got her bamboo... 05-11-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 322 Views Filed under: Home and Garden, News

• Business Taking Bigger Steps to Combat Climate Change The US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) this week has dramatically increased its membership to include General Motors, Shell, Pepsi, and Johnson & Johnson among others. GM is the first automobile company to join the coalition. As the Environmental... 05-10-2007, 8:00 AM by Katy to Daily Green 417 Views Filed under: Business, Transportation, News

• Mothers Day renamed Mother Nature Day Is it coincidence that we call the planet Mother Nature? There are definite similarities in raising children and nurturing the complex ecological balance that makes up our natural environment. Both kids and the planet require a stable consistent atmosphere... 05-09-2007, 8:00 AM by Katy to Daily Green 326 Views Filed under: Fashion, Home and Garden, News

• How to Get a Slow-Growing, Drought-Resistant Green Lawn It's hard to believe at first, grass that's drought tolerant, green all summer and only needs mowing once a month or less. The owners of Canada's Wildflower Farms didn't believe it at first either -- and they're the ones who created it. Eco-lawn is a... 05-08-2007, 9:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 923 Views Filed under: Home and Garden, News

• 8 Years to Save the Planet from Global Warming The third UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report was released Friday and came with some good news and bad for environmental groups. First the good --delegates resisted pressure to tone down the report, which says there is still time... 05-07-2007, 9:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 469 Views Filed under: Energy, Issues, News

• Top 5 Green Companies to Put Your Dollars Behind As you may have guessed by the recent posts about using your wallet to cast a vote for the environment, we're really into The Better World Shopping Guide . We listed five of the best companies to support and explained a bit of why each of them are deserving.... 05-04-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 2411 Views Filed under: Fashion, Food and Drink, Home and Garden, News

• Greenpeace Doubles Greener Apple's Electronics Rating Apple computers is looking a bit more granny smith than Macintosh these days -- it seems they've decided it's finally time to go green, or as they put it they've decided to start telling people about how they're already in the process. "Upon investigating... 05-03-2007, 2:00 PM by Crystal to Daily Green 349 Views Filed under: Business, News

• The US tries to add “Truthiness” to the UN’s Climate Change Report The United States and China feel they have a right to add some “truthiness” to the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is part of the series of reports published by the scientists and climate researchers from... 05-03-2007, 10:06 AM by Katy to Daily Green 508 Views Filed under: Business, Energy, Issues, News

• How to Beat Global Warming One Dollar at a Time As Dr. Ellis Jones highlighted at the Green Festival recently there is a power shift occurring on the planet from political power to economic power. With two thirds of the world's biggest economies now belonging to corporations rather than countries,... 05-02-2007, 11:00 AM by Katy to Daily Green 276 Views

• Toronto Green Living Show A Mainstream Success One thing was immediately evident at the Green Living Show in Toronto last weekend. It was corporate, and it was mainstream! I say that with an exclamation point because as much as I enjoyed the Green Festival in Chicago a few weeks ago, I was a bit disappointed... 05-01-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 345 Views Filed under: Issues, News

• Canada Bans Incandescents and Enviro Campaign has Some 'Flicking' Mad After Canada's most populated province announced it was banning incandescent light bulbs, the country followed suit, with power hungry lights being out of the question by 2012. This'll mean more great things for CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs),... 04-30-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 389 Views Filed under: Energy, Home and Garden, News

• Five Green Companies to Put Your Dollars Behind One of the best presentations at last weekend's Green Festival in Chicago was about choosing where to spend your dollars to make the most difference. Dr. Ellis Jones, author of The Better World Shopping Guide , talked about the rating system he developed... 04-27-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 520 Views Filed under: Food and Drink, Issues, News

• Ford Makes Global Warming Concession - Will it Follow-Through? On Monday, Ford Motor Co. chief executive Alan Mulally said global warming is really happening and acknowledged it’s caused in part by auto emissions. “The vast majority of data indicates that the temperature has increased, and I believe the correlation... 04-26-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 357 Views Filed under: Business, Transportation

• Terracycle Sued by Scotts Miracle-Gro TerraCycle Inc. -- founded by college students wanting to create an eco-friendly business and now staffing a whopping 33 people. Scotts Miracle-Gro -- 59 percent market share and annual profits surpassing $132 million, with only about 5,000 employees.... 04-25-2007, 8:00 AM by Crystal to Daily Green 488 Views Filed under: Home and Garden, News