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The Truth About Spirulina
NewsEnvironment May 14, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas 2 Comments
On a recent layover in Chicago, I found myself standing in the smoothie line at the airport, dazed, jet-lagged, and craving kale. Or anything green. I’d been away from California too long.
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Urban Backpacking Offers Hikers a Fresh Take
EnvironmentLocalCommunity May 07, 2013, by Georgia Perry
What’s the allure of urban backpacking? Only that it’s saving the Earth, inspiring art and making hikers look at their local environment in a completely new light. Here’s how one reporter took the first step.
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Greenspace’s Lydia Corser Ahead of the Curve
EnvironmentLocalCommunity Apr 23, 2013, by Aaron Carnes
Lydia Corser remembers when, nearly 20 years ago, she told people that she was a “green” interior designer. She got some confused looks.
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Permaculture Takes Root in Santa Cruz
NewsEnvironmentLocal Apr 23, 2013, by Sally Neas 2 Comments
“It’s spring time,” proclaims permaculture teacher David Shaw, as he clutches a hunter green steel digging fork. “Time to go.”
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Santa Cruz’s ‘Nuclear Terminator’
NewsEnvironment Mar 26, 2013, by Sally Neas
Many locals know Ben Davis Jr. as a painter, the resident artist at Santa Cruz’s Sones Cellars. His work is so colorful and bright it almost seems to glow. But as he sits in the Sones Cellars tasting room, sipping a glass of Cancion Del Mar, he has an entirely different kind of glow on his mind.
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Biochemist Pushes for New Approach to Autism
EnvironmentLocalCommunity Mar 06, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas 2 Comments
By asking the question ‘what are we eating?,’ Reid claims she’s been able to completely manage her daughter Brooke’s autism.
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Chocolate: “Crack for Nice People”
NewsEnvironmentCommunity Feb 19, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas
Chocolate is loaded with flavonoid antioxidants—more than green tea, red wine, or an apple. This justification alone seems to defend the private euphoria of a square (or entire bar) here and there, right?
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Food Activists, Scientists Talk GMOs
EnvironmentPolitics Feb 19, 2013, by Sally Neas 3 Comments
Imagine sitting UC Berkeley Professor Miguel Altieri—one of the nation’s most outspoken advocates of sustainable farming—down at the table with a representative from Monsanto, the world’s biggest producer of genetically modified seeds, for a debate about GMOs. What would happen? Cat fight? Chair throwing?
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How to Combat Chronic Inflammation
NewsEnvironmentCommunity Feb 12, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas 1 Comments
Chronic inflammation is strongly correlated with a myriad of health problems, from allergies and depression to the three main killers of Western society: cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. It may sound overwhelming, but according to licensed naturopathic doctor Aimee Shunney, there’s a lot we can do about the chronic inflammation problem.
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How Safe is Santa Cruz’s Water?
EnvironmentLocalCommunity Jan 23, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas 2 Comments
What are we drinking in our H20? How much filtration do we really need? And is bottle water really the “pure” alternative its marketers claim that it is?
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