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Thanksgiving on The Fabulous Beekman Boys. Oh my. It's either a great joy or a profound nightmare, depending on your familial situation and your propensity to binge.

When first looking at Ashley Legg's proposed Smart Fridge on Yanko I thought it was another bar code scanner thing and was going to repeat "a green sustainable diet doesn't have bar codes." But it serves a different purpose: it is "for those who have shunted cooking to a hobby and r

Marion Nestle (via Apartment Therapy) quotes a paper by Harvard pediatrician David Ludwig and Tufts professor Alice Lichte

Snow Peak makes camping equipment. But as our lifestyles become more mobile and our homes become smaller, furniture that is light, minimal and can be folded up when it isn't needed makes some sense. The stuff is beautifully made and looked as good as much of the more conventional furniture....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If you've had just about all you can stand of canned fruits, frozen vegetables, and cold-weather comfort food, rejoice: Spring foods are here!

Goat cheese frittata on crostini, arugula and strawberry salad, soba noodles with crumbled tofu tossed in a light Asian sauce, followed by crunchy macaroons and rich fudge cookies. Delicious.

Of all the environmental issues to think about -- and there a lot of them -- questions concerning food and health are common to us all. We've all got to eat, and do so every day, and so questions of how we manage the environment and how the environment affects human health affect all humankind. How we will feed the world's burgeoning population? Which farmers are pushing beyond organic?

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The days of setting up a stall at a little market and selling your cakes or knitted scarves are almost over--everything has gotten too big and commercial and obsessed with health and safety. So here's a new alternative that just might catch on.

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Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for Earthwatch initiatives.

The journey to make my channel swim carbon neutral has an obvious starting point.