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Union Square Greenmarket Reconnaissance


The most useful tool an eco fashionista in New York City has is the link to Lucy’s Greenmarket Report.  Four days a week in the summer and every Saturday in the winter, Lucy awakes before dawn and in all weather, walks the two blocks from her apartment to the Union Square Greenmarket. There she buys […]

Rachael Ray Goes Green


You might not expect it from her, but Rachael Ray is an active participant in the Green movement.  Her participation is marked this month by her magazine’s move to 85 percent recyled paper, which saves 11,500 trees with every issue.  Every Day with Rachael Ray also switched to a paper mill that’s closer to their […]

Local or Local?


By Guest Writer, Al Rosas
Real Deal or Organic Opportunist? Watch What You Buy On The Road!
With all the talk about local foods, slow food movement, carbon footprint, what do you believe? Here is the real deal when it comes to learning the lingo.
And What’s a Carbon Footprint Doing on My Food?
Local food (also regional food […]

Infectious Lies


What the heck?  MRSA?  People actually are starting to become familiar with the acronym for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an isolate of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus characterized by antibiotic resistance to all penicillin.  MRSA was discovered for the first time in 1961 in the UK, but it is now widespread in the hospital setting. MRSA is […]