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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Environmental Days to mark on your community and school calendars. There are endless opportunities to get out and enjoy the outdoors, get involved in your local and natural community, and become self-motivated to make a difference in the health and sustainability of our environment.

Making real and heartfelt connections to nature is crucial for our survival into the next millennium.

Creating a Tree Free environment in your home and workplace has major benefits for the environment and will greatly reduce your carbon footprint.

Consider reading your newspaper and magazine subscriptions online. World and local news can be sourced on the web and it is more up-to-date than the daily papers. Newspaper publishingis a carbon-intensive industry. It can’t be great for the environment to slaughter CO₂ gulping forests to produce newsprint. Also consider the hundreds of thousands of copies of newspapers distributed by fuel guzzling planes, trains and lorries before consumers send them on, after brief perusal, to the landfill. Doesn't make sense!

Would you eat hydroponic produce after taking notice of new claims of growth hormones being touted as the holy grail of hydroponic fertilizers. It certainly brings new questions to the debate on ethical food production.

It has been reported that hormones to promote amazing growth in hydroponic crops cost $500,000 USD per gram making gold look cheap by comparison.

A Seattle based international hydroponics nutrients company is conducting innovative hydroponics plant science research with ultra expensive auxins,