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  • Lemon Chicken Skewers Recipe from Carrots ‘N’ Cake

    Dinner is almost ready! Maybe not just yet, but you might really like this healthy dinner idea from fellow blogger Tina Haupert, who writes over at Carrots ‘N’ Cake. Coming up soon, I’ll post a review of Haupert’s new book, Carrots ‘N’ Cake: Healthy Living One Carrot and Cupcake at a Time. I received a…

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  • It’s World Fair Trade Day 2011

    Do you have the right idea about Fair Trade? It’s not some far-flung hippie idea. And you don’t have to go to a specialty store like Whole Foods to find Fair Trade products. Believe it or not, chains like Target and many supermarkets now carry Fair Trade items like coffee, tea and chocolate at reasonable…

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  • Memphis Flooding from Space

    Newly released images captured by the USGS and NASA on May 10 reveal how much more mighty the Mississippi has become. Taken from 438 miles above the Earth, the new image shows the major flooding of the Mississippi River around Memphis, TN and bordering states. Visit NASA’s Earth Observatory for more images. If you’d like…

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  • Wash Your Bags, Not the Food

    The scene inside my dryer a few days ago: A freshly washed and dried bulb of garlic, scattered into cloves and lovely detached garlic skins. It was a fluttery, though amusing mess. On the floor. On the towels. And in my dryer. Not the biggest mess I’ve ever made (that involved unformed Jell-O), but close.…

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  • Wednesday Stairs: Dipped Chairs, 3-day Chicken & More

    Tired of your wooden chairs, but don’t want to buy more? Dip them! EcoSalon explains a fashionable way to make old new again. See for yourself at Lustables: Dipped Chair. Green Earth Technologies has a new environmentally friendly motor oil called G-OIL. A blend of nature’s American grown base oils make up G-OIL. It’s the…

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