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 Stories About: green living AND holiday AND United States
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I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas Low-impact gifts can make holidays more eco-friendly |
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13 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas Low-impact gifts can make holidays more eco-friendly This year, holiday sales in the U.S. are projected to hit $219 billion -- up 4 to 6 percent from last year. That's a lot of ties and trinkets. And while that might be good news for some retailers, it's anything but a holiday for the earth; between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans generate an extra 5 million tons of trash ... |
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| Topics: green living, holiday, United States (all these topics) |
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Pan of Green Gobbles Sales of organic turkeys and Tofurky on the rise |
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24 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Pan of Green Gobbles Sales of organic turkeys and Tofurky on the rise The organic turkey is the new Prius. If you're planning to carve one up for tomorrow's Thanksgiving meal, you're riding the latest wave of eco-chic. Organic turkey sales at Whole Foods Market have doubled this year, the upscale natural-foods chain reports. And that's building on i ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, food, green living, holiday, organic food, United States, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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Not Buying It It's time Americans hit the brakes on consumption |
Eric Brown |
08 Jan 2003 |
Soapbox |
| Every year, long before the last of the Halloween candy has been eaten, the drumbeat of holiday consumerism ushers in a long, wasteful, expensive march to New Year's. Now Holiday 2002 is finally over, and apparently it's just as well, because it turns out the season was a "failure." This information comes not from our friends, our family, or even our clergy, but from CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, holiday, United States (all these topics) |
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