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  So many reasons to choose cork

  The best environmental choice is wine that is sealed with natural cork.  And that may go for Alaska also.  For many in the lower 48, wine is shipped from far away, as well.

  The cork oak forests of Spain and Portugal are privately owned and extraordinarily diverse natural habitat for several endangered species. Without the income from wine cork sales, the owners of these ancient sustainably harvested forests will likely be forced to sell their land for development.  Other uses of cork that have developed more recently do not provide sufficient quantity of usage to make up the loss of wine sealing corks.

  Audubon Magazine had a really good article in January 2007 (http://www.audubonmagazine.org/features0701/habitat.html) that will give you the detail on this.  The article also describes the steps that the wine cork industry has taken to almost completely prevent TCA contamination in good quality corks.  

  The way you find out how a wine was sealed is to ask the salespeople where you are shopping - and tell them that you only buy wine with natural cork because it is the best environmental choice and protects important natural habitat.  On Umbra on wine bottle stoppers posted 1 year, 2 months ago 8 Responses

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  Storing greens

  There is another method to store lettuce and other greens that uses no plastic or paper towels and doesn't tie up the salad spinner, colander, bowls, etc.  Rinse the greens to clean them of dirt, bugs or whatever. Leave the leaves whole - torn leaves will start to rot more quickly.  Shake the leaves dry to remove loose moisture but leave them damp and wrap them in a large, fairly thick damp cloth (folded sort of envelope style).  I have found lightweight bath towels or the double layers of a flannel pillowcase to be the right size and thickness to hold a full head of lettuce or bunch of greens that will stay moist for quite a while.  You can redampen the towel when it dries out.  Pull out the amount you need for whatever you're making and fold the rest back up in the cloth and store it in the refrigerator.On Umbra on storing produce posted 1 year, 4 months ago 15 Responses

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  Bulk cleaning products

  Hi Sharon - I'm guessing you get up to Albuquerque occasionally.  Your local co-op - La Montanita - has two locations there. They have nice website at www.lamontanita.coop. One store
  store is at:
  2400 Rio Grande NW
  Albuquerque, NM 87104  
  Phone
  505-242-8800

  The original store is at:
  3500 Central SE
  Albuquerque, NM 87106
  Phone
  505-265-4631

  Hours for both are:
  Monday-Saturday
  7am-10pm

  Sunday
  8am-10pm

  Go Co-op!  On Umbra on buying eco-products in bulk posted 1 year, 6 months ago 17 Responses

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  Marketing

  Loooks interesting but when I went to the website there is nowhere to see the actual mop, what it looks like, how it works and the print is tiny, sort of gray color and really, really hard to read!  I concur with the comments about wanting to see a complete list of ingredients but I'm guessing that would mean giving away propretary information that competitors could use.  On An interview with the founders of Method green home-care products posted 1 year, 8 months ago 9 Responses

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  Brelli

  Go to any Japanese import store and you will find the same product "design" in a wide variety of attractive paper designs.  The Japanese have been making such parasols for many, many years. The only thing different about the Brelli is the mystery biodegradable canopy material.  So what is it?On From P-I-M-P to Pimp posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 Responses