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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

In an effort to give back to the nation that gave Madonna her two children (David and Mercy James), Madonna and her foundation Raising Malawi are set to break ground on a state-of-the-art girls' school in Malawi, featuring solar panels and gray water recycling.

Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs for creatures they can eat, such as chickens or rabbits, in their provocative new book Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living.

An audacious urban renewal project, High Line is a verdant, tree-filled space that has reclaimed a former elevated train line snaking its way through downtown New York.

The High Line is a new public park, built on an elevated 1930s rail structure located on Manhattan's West Side.

Highly Stylized Parties Get a Sustainable Makeover...Silkstone Events, a catering company with a green initiative.

Continuing in the family tradition of eco-awareness, Mickey Sumner (daughter of eco-evangelicals Trudie Styler and Sting) has joined forces with Phil Winser and Ben Towil to create Silkstone, a New York-based catering and events company dedicated to organics, sustainability and the slow-food movement.

1 cup organic cocoa / carob powder
1 cup organic coconut oil, split in half
3/4 cup organic honey

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and love is in the air. Strawberry for Purity and lot's of Passion! The delicate heart-shaped berry has always connoted purity, passion and healing. It has been used in stories, literature and paintings through the ages.

"Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Dr. William Butler, 17th Century English Writer Dr. Butler is referring to the strawberry. Although long prized as a dessert fruit, strawberries and organic fresh cream, or strawberries and icecream, but less well-known are strawberries sprinkled with organic sugar or agave nectar or raw honey and a small splash of balsamic vinegar.