Weekday Vegetarian: Using Up Eggplant from the Garden

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 11:48 a.m.
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I wrote last week about how well the eggplant is doing in my garden and the eggplant stack I made, and this week my daughter brought a whole bunch more to the cottage. There are so many things you can do with eggplant and so many different flavours it works with. Although I love Asian-style eggplant dishes with soy sauce and hot chilies, I was feeling like making something more Mediterranean. I had some beaut ...

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Anna Getty's Pan-Fried Sake Shrimp - Episode 65

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Published May 17, 2010 at 7:02 p.m.
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Episode 65 of OrganicAuthority TV watch it now! ... This recipe comes from Anna Getty's Easy Green Organic cookbook. Her Pan-Fried Sake Shrimp is one of her many delicious and healthy recipes. The flavors of the cooked sake, garlic, soy sauce, and ginger blend together perfectly. This easy recipe can be made in 10 minutes! It is important to have some crusty country bread to soak up all the juices ... Watch the video and discover how to make this delicious easy recipe! ...

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Large-Scale Soy Farming Pushing Cattle Ranchers Deeper Into Amazon

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Published April 29, 2010 at 4:45 p.m.
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photo: Jeff Belmonte/Creative Commons via flickr ... Ah the tangled web ... Report after report has detailed how both the beef and the leather industries have been major causes on deforestation in Brazil. There have even been ones showing how cattle ranching has overtaken soy as a driver of deforestation. Well, not so fast ...

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Nixxi: Relaxed, Casual Wear for Spring 2010 (Photos)

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Published April 13, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.
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Nixxi Spring 2010. Image courtesy of Nimli If you're searching for clothing staples for summer, look no further than Nixxi's spring 2010 collection. The Canada-based brand has created cool, casual looks--sexed up in the lookbook--for the season, including leggings, stockings, dresses cinched at the waist, relaxed fit tees, and tank tops made with sustainable textiles: organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, soy, lyoce ...

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Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren't

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Published March 11, 2010 at 11:50 a.m.
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Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food , which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted." 1. Palm Oil Many of those substances are bad for our health, bad for our planet and show up in really

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Green Fashion Week Fall 2010: Vaute Couture

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Published Feb. 15, 2010 at 2:54 p.m.
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Vaute Couture fall 2010 collection, New York Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady New York Green Fashion Week is in full swing and we are sitting pretty at the GreenShows. Vaute Couture just wrapped up their fall 2010 show, which featured vegan winter coats and introduced knits made from soy bean farming waste, vegan belts made with Ultrasuede EcoDesign and urban snow coats, made with alternative fiber ...

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Ask Pablo: What Is The Carbon Footprint Of Tofu?

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 7:13 a.m.
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Image Source: Sifu RenkaDear Pablo: I eat a lot of tofu as part of my vegetarian diet but it seems to me that this may conflict with my concerns for the environment. What is the carbon footprint of tofu?Tofu is made from soybeans by curdling soy milk much like cheese is made from cow milk. The soybeans require very little, if any, irrigation and they "fix" about 1 pound of nitrogen in the soil per plant because they are legumes. The nitrogen put into the soil by the soybean plants reduces the

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Superfood Holiday Candy - Episode 13

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Published Dec. 9, 2009 at 1:16 p.m.
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Episode 13 of OrganicAuthority TV whatch it now! ... Rose Cole shows Laura Klein how to make her amazin raw superfood holiday candy that is good for you and tasts fabulous. The recipe is dairy free, gluten free, no sugar and no soy and tastes ohh so good and even give you an energy boost! ...   ...

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Spring/Summer 2010: NatureVsFuture (Photos)

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Published Nov. 29, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
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NatureVsFuture spring/summer 2010. Credit: NvF Brooklyn-based Nina Valenti's NatureVsFuture collection is a sophisticated fusion of eco-chic and street style. Nina incorporates sustainable and biodegradable fabrics--organic cotton, organic wool, hemp, soy, bamboo, seacell, lyocell, Ingeo (created from corn)--as well as recycled and technological fabrics like Polartec into her collection, produced ...

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Ford Adds Wheat Straw to the 2010 Flex

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Published Nov. 11, 2009 at 1:32 p.m.
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Even in the early heydays, Henry Ford was fond of using plants like hemp and straw to reinforce plastic components for his cars. Now bioplastics are back and turning up in cell phones, forks, and more. Ford Motors started trying out soy-based seat foam a few years back, and is now expanding its palette of plant plastics. It's a small step, but the 2010 Ford Flex will be the first car to feature a plastic part that contains wheat straw ...

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