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Sweatshop-Free? New Report Grades Levi’s, Gap, and Wal-Mart’s Supply Chain

Photo: As You Sow When it comes to sweatshop-free supply chains, does your favorite fashion brand make the grade? More than a decade ago, in response to controversy sparked by sweatshop conditions in the U.S. companies’ global supply chains, apparel brands adopted vendor codes of conduct to avoid risks. To date, it’s been unclear which brands have actually adopted effective policies and programs to address the issue. A new report, released by corporate responsibility group As You Sow re… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In the Fight Against Invasive Lionfish, Florida Sponsors Fishing Derbies

Photo: Matt Kieffer under a Creative Commons license

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ShopNothing Helps You Buy Nothing

Image: ShopNothing How was your “buy nothing” day? Did you really buy nothing? Did you miss that rush, the unmistakable high of exchanging your musty old cash for something you can brag to your friends about, or for the gift that will simply take the breath away when your intended recipient discovers your thoughtful extravagance? Are you forced to face the facts that you have a consumption addiction? That you may have honored buy nothing day, only to push the next consumption “fix” off until another day? Then you need to check out ShopNothing. Where you can “buy nothing”, or buy “not… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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MindBodyGreen Deals, the Groupon for Greenies

Image: MindBodyGreen Groupon’s pretty great for eco-bargain hunters like me– in New York City, it has offered discounts on the likes of American Apparel , the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and GustOrganics (as pictured above.) Not all of the sales stem from sustainable sources, however. The random helicopter tour, sushi restaurant or Gap discount often lands in my inbox. Delete.

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Weekday Vegetarian: Moroccan Flatbread

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I’ve been looking at street foods from around the world and found this recipe for a really tasty snack of Moroccan flat bread. We actually ate this for breakfast this morning and everybody liked it. You can whip it up in no time at all and then it fries quickly for something a little different…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Crack Garden is Not What You Think

Photo: asla This crack garden is not what it sounds like… It’s a sustainable, simple and cheap answer to a design problem. How to make a garden out of a concrete slab without spending a fortune. Created in the small back yard of a San Francisco apartment building, it was inspired by those tenacious little plants that take hold no matter how inhospitable the space. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Music And Food Are Inseparable at Localmotive Farm

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Too Much Doom & Gloom is Not Why People Stopped Believing in Climate Change

Photo: nosha , Flickr, CC While I do think it’s true that we can an overload on apocalyptic imagery in discussions and stories about climate change, that’s not why people have stopped believing that it’s real. A recent study from UC Berkeley purported to find that too much doom and gloom was turning people off to the very idea of global warming, because it “threatens deeply held beliefs that the world is just, orderly, and stable.” Faced with a concept that poses such a threa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Watcha Gonna Do (with all that Poo)" Song Questions CAFO Waste With Humor

Every so often there’s a really great sad-but-true-made-funny video that comes out, and this is a perfect one for today considering Thanksgiving is a day of feasting. This humorous but still sort of serious song is by Adam Cole, singing about CAFOs and the massive amounts of waste they crea… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots

Photo via The Stamford Times While some teenagers spend their time mulling over which sports team to root for or pop-star to obsess over, others are up to more important things — like working to save endangered species . Sure, it’s a long way from the halls of a middle-school in Connecticut to the forests of New Zealand, home of the flightless Kakapo parrot — but that matters little to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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