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Jimma Banana Art - Job Creation For Youth
We love these decorative greeting cards made from banana leaves. They are made by young Ethiopian women in the city of Jimma. Jimma Banana Art is an organisation that was started back in 2000 with the...
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Do You Know Where Your Banana Has Been?
This is the question that Dole is asking their consumers. And they've got the answer! Now on the Dole Organic website, consumers can "travel to the origin of each organic product" Dole produces. By...
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British MPs Bananas Over Fair Trade
Labels need to be placed on everything from bananas to T-shirts to show how much people in developing countries were paid to produce them, say Members of Parliament in the U.K.
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Fur Farms and Banana Rice Pudding
Researching on one of our primary technical sources, Ebay, we discovered evidence of a long abandoned effort at genetic engineering. Apparently some frankenfarmer long ago came up with way to grow fur...
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Latin American Banana Farmers Sue Over Pesticides
At least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama have filed five lawsuits in the United States. The farmers claim that exposure in the 1970s to...
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The "Real" Cost of Bananas: Crop Dusting and Toxic Fungicides in Costa Rica
A common topic when discussing environmental issues is the acronym "NIMBY," meaning "Not in My Backyard." This simple phrase refers to the
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Eco-Knitting for the Adventurous
For the crafty out there in the audience, Shannon Okey, author of more than 10 knitting books, now launches a new book for "alternative" fibers - Alt Fiber: 25 Projects For Knitting Green With Bamboo,...
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Wrapped to Go, Please: Research Hopes to Improve Banana Leaf Food Wrappers in...
The bane of over-packaging, especially with materials which are not biodegradable and renewable isn't just something which is confined to wealthy nations. Though banana leaves have been traditionally...
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100 Green Uses for Common, Everyday Products
The average household has products for just about every condition or problem known to man or woman. A crème for pimples, a syrup for coughs, a capsule for headaches, a liquid for bugs. It has got to...
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LA Film Festival Abuzz with Green Documentaries
With 200 films from 30 countries, the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 18 to 28) in Westwood near UCLA, seems far from Hollywood. The non-profit that organizes the event "champions the cause of...
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Carbon Gold Promote Strict Regulations With World's First Biochar Methodology
Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project...
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9 Ways to Get Naturally Gorgeous Skin Without Spending a Cent
Forget chemical peels, surgical face-lifts, Botox, or expensive hopes-in-a-jar. You can attain fresh, glowing skin by following a few simple directives and getting a little crafty around the kitchen.
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Sustainable Dreaming (and Eating) in the Jungles of Costa Rica
One afternoon in March of 1995, I was on a family vacation in Costa Rica and witnessed something that changed my life forever. As I drove through the Southern Caribbean coast I witnessed a playground...
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Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail
Caren Alpert spent 18 years as a photo editor and food photographer before turning her artist's eye to the things we see every day but never look closely at: What we eat. She uses scientific equipment...
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Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail...
She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the
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Families Sue Chiquita for More Than 4,000 Murders in Colombia
Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than...
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Ask Pablo: What's The Impact Of Imported Tropical Fruit?
In our globalized world, products travel halfway around the world all the time. Water is shipped from
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From Shoe Shining to Skin Smoothing: 7 Uses for Overripe Bananas
Just because a banana has passed its prime is no reason to feed it to the garbage can. Here's how to show old bananas some love.
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How to Tattoo a Banana: A Non-Toxic, Waste-Free Art Project
For those who can't stop playing with their food, here's how to turn a banana into a green, fleeting work of art.
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