Articles tagged:green living

Posted: Fri Sep 23 7:01 p.m. by Linda Lombardini AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Green Hands program helps spread eco-friendly skills

Clifford Dean Scholz is working on spreading green know-how, and he’s doing it handily. Clifford started the Green Hands Reskilling Initiative earlier this year. Its motif is a green hand sign that you place in your window to let others know you have green skills to teach and talk about. ...

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Posted: Thu Sep 15 7:22 a.m. by Linda Lombardini AnnArbor.com Community Contributor

I may have to relinquish my Luddite card. I boarded a plane with an electronic boarding pass. Paperless! Granted, I may have earned demerits for taking a short flight to Chicago. It seems intuitive that driving would have been greener, although checking sites like grist.com or about.com allows you to ...

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Posted: Mon Jan 4 5:22 a.m. by Tina Reed
Millers Creek Film Festival accepting entries on local watershed preservation

The Huron River Watershed Council is accepting entries for its fifth annual Millers Creek Film Festival through Feb. 2. The film festival is looking to feature short videos and public service announcements about protecting the Huron River watershed or to find a way to connect residents with the river.

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Posted: Wed Nov 25 5:54 a.m. by Janet Miller Freelance reporter
Ann Arbor area stores stock Earth-friendly gifts

It’s time for Father Christmas to be kind to Mother Nature. While the holidays can be filled with ties, bathrobes and colognes, area retailers are also stocking gifts that ultimately give back to the planet, from rain barrels to new-wave backpacks.

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Posted: Mon Nov 16 1:27 p.m. by Tina Reed
Homelessness Awareness Tour planned this week in Washtenaw County

A self-guided tour of Washtenaw County agencies that help people in various stages of homelessness is planned this Thursday to raise awareness. The free tour is being hosted between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. by the Washtenaw Housing Alliance. The alliance is a consortium of 25 local agencies that help ...

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Posted: Fri Oct 23 1:30 p.m. by Jennifer Janssen Community Contributor
Learn new skills or form a big '350' on the Diag for climate action

Want to be a part of something huge on the Diag tomorrow? How about a reskilling festival that is both hip and your grandmother would approve of? First, the huge part: Saturday, Oct. 24 is the 350.org International Day of Climate Action. There will be over 4,000 events taking place ...

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Posted: Thu Oct 22 2:12 p.m. by Elizabeth Palmer
Reskilling festival this Saturday at Rudolph Steiner High School

Concerned about climate change? Reskill yourself and get empowered to meet the future. By now I'm sure that all of you out there in reader-land have heard the term climate change. Going hand-in-glove with that, I'm sure that you have also heard the long and ongoing list of death and ...

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Posted: Fri Aug 21 9:18 a.m. by Rachael Isaacson
Product Review:  Green and safe alternatives for your family

I had the pleasure of trying out several products from Ecostore USA and I am thrilled to share their products, as well as my experiences with them. I have been looking for green alternatives for my children and my home for sometime now, and was having a hard time finding ...

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