Thanksgiving's right around the corner and if you're like most people these days, you're more aware of what you put in your body. This means that you probably want to make an educated decision when buying a bird for Thanksgiving this year (if a bird's what's on your menu). I've been asked before about labels, so here's a handy guide from our good friends over at Healthly Child Healthy World for deciphering turkey labels when you embark on your shopping adventure. Hope this makes your shopping easy. And of course, if you don't eat turkey, there's always the Lentil Loaf—quite…

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If you’ve got an ounce of “green” in you, or simply want to be inspired, mark your calendars now for October 2009 in San Francisco. That’s the next time the Brower Youth Awards will be held—just as they were earlier this month in SF before a raucous, adoring crowd of 1,000 people at the beautiful Herbst Theatre. Of course, if you’re between the ages of 13 and 22 and are doing something cool in the way of environmental and social justice advocacy, go one step better and actually apply for a Brower Youth Award yourself ($3,000, national honors and a…

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Give me a sunny day, my guitar, and an audience of trees and I’m a happy camper. Turns out a few of our GreenNotes artists, like Josh Ritter, Missy Higgins and Ben Kweller, like to spend a bit of time in nature, too. The three artists are chipping in and playing a few tunes at three different fall environmental volunteer and concert events this year. A few weeks ago, Yosemite had it’s fifth annual Yosemite Facelift—four days of tidying up after the summer season. A few thousand climbers, hikers and outdoor-ers turned out to pick up litter and make the…

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I've been remiss in my blogging responsbilities, I'll admit. I had the high hopes of sharing my Sustainable Food Lab journey with daily updates for all while I attended the conference a few weeks back and then I completely dropped the ball because the conference was full of super long days with even longer discussions; I was just pooped at the end of the day. All I could do was crawl into bed after dinner. And of course when I got back to the office, things were hectic and life interfered. You guys know the drill. Ok, that's enough excuses.…

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I'm taking a short hiatus from talking about our Eco Challenge to blog about a "trip" I'm on. Thanks to Miss Shauna, sustainable food systems extraordinare, I'm attending the Sustainable Food Summit Lab. We became a member this year and now, Shauna, Thao, our director of Community and I have set out on a little journey this week. We met up yesterday afternoon with other folks who are also attending. For a little peek into how cool this is, I sat next to a guy last night at dinner who's in the honey business—as you may (or may not) imagine,…

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