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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Cracking the code to ‘the perfect plant’ opens a path to saving the planet.
From the Seattle Times comes this GREAT article on bamboo:
If Jackie Heinricher’s Chilean feather bamboo hadn’t flowered in her Skagit County garden 10 years ago, we might, this very moment, be snacking on the latest, greatest gourmet craze: crunchy chips made from bamboo shoots.
But flower it did, a once-in-a-century phenomenon. All over the world, from […]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Green funerals with cardboard coffins and bamboo urns make for eco-exits.
Great AP News article which starts:
LONDON: It’s no longer enough to live a greener life — now people are being encouraged to be environmentally friendly when they leave the Earth too.
Cardboard coffins, shell-shaped urns and fireworks that can be packed with people’s ashes were met by smiles at the Natural Death Center’s Green Funeral Exhibition […]
