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By organizing a weekend film festival annually in March, the Green Lifestyle Film Festival invites filmmakers, sponsors, donors, press/media and the public who wish to join with our mission to change the modern day pervasive media messages based on fear and violence in films to films that address the reasons behind such distorted images of mankind and our role here, with films that challenge us and inspire us to live lives of inspiration and to become the magnificent beings that lie within each of us.

Using vegetables in baking may seem odd, Alan Davidson in 'The Oxford Companion to Food' tells us that carrots were used in European sweet cakes since the Middle Ages when other sweeteners were hard to find or just too expensive. In fact, carrots, along with beets, contain more sugar than most other vegetables which might explain their use in desserts.

Fifth book in best-selling toddler series.The urban babies have gone green!  Readers will learn that Eco Babies not only wear green, earth-friendly fibres, they reduce, reuse and recycle. Eco Babies also carpool, ride on the back of mum's bike and eat solely locally grown fruits and vegetables.

Who Killed Dave? Described as a wacky whodunit comedy, is a work of fiction that has nothing to do with the environment, but is nonetheless green. It’s a completely carbon neutral book, published on 100 per cent recycled paper, using vegetable inks, elemental-free chlorine bleaching (which prevents the formation of carcinogenic dioxins), and with carbon offsets.

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.