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Canada Leads Way on Nutrition With New Food Guide

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Canada’s new Food Guide incorporates input from 20,000 Canadians and gives its neighbors to the south a whole new set of best practices to chew on…

EarthTalk

Climate Friendly Farms: Agriculture Adapts to Global Warming

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Farms and farmers across the U.S. are adopting climate-friendly practices to improve soil quality and save water as global warming kicks in…

Green Tech

Green Technology Upgrades Around Home Make More Sense Than Ever

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Now is the time to jump on green technology upgrades, given they’re mature enough to rely on but still new enough to qualify for “early adopter” incentives.

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Reading List

Sustainability Made Simple

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The new book Sustainability Made Simple explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change.

EarthTalk

Home Water Quality Testing: Peace of Mind Has Never Been So Easy

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Coliform bacteria, nitrates, total dissolved solids and unhealthy pH levels, oh my! If you are worried that your water might contain these or other contaminants, at-home water quality testing is easy and relatively inexpensive…

Eating Right

How Cooking Can Help Solve the Water Crisis

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This short video from Epicurious shows how cooks can help solve the water crisis by reducing the amount of water used to cook pasta & other everyday foods…

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Behind the Greens

Michigan Freshmen Treated to Zero Waste Picnic

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The University of Michigan has invested in ways to educate students about saving water and reducing waste in efforts to become one of the greenest large universities in the nation…

EarthTalk

Beyond Flint: Water Woes Affect 18 Million Americans

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According to a new report from NRDC, 5,300 different water systems across the country either shirked responsibilities to treat their water supplies to reduce lead levels, failed to monitor water supplies for lead, or neglected to report unsafe lead levels to the public or regulators.

Conscious Consumer

Reducing Your Bottled Water Footprint

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Check out Wheels for Wishes new infographic on reducing our bottled water footprint… by Wheels For Wishes

Using "greywater" from sinks, showers and washing machines to irrigate outdoor gardens is a great way to increase the productivity of backyard ecosystems while reducing household water use by as much as 30 percent. Pictured: A backyard garden watered with residential greywater. Jeremy Levine, courtesy Flickr

EarthTalk

Reusing Greywater At Home

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Dear EarthTalk: I know that some large buildings filter some of their wastewater to irrigate exterior landscaping. Is there an affordable way to do this at home? — Bill P., Salem, OR Now that solar panels are so commonplace on rooftops across the country, reusing so-called greywater — that is, the waste water from sinks, showers, […]

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