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Happy Compost Week!

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Let’s celebrate compost! May 5-11, 2019 is International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW). Started in 1995 in Canada, it’s an annual event to recognize the benefits of composting and compost for effective resource management, soil health, and plant growth. Each year’s celebration has a theme and for 2019 it’s Cool
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Why is bottled water so expensive?

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The environmental impacts of bottled water are well known and established, but an issue that is largely unaccounted for is the expense. Purchasing water is now part of the family budget for many –– a new phenomenon compared to previous generations who relied on well or tap water. If you do the math,
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Q&A with April Pulley Sayre

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Our April 16, 2019 blog post shared a great children’s book, Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet, by April Pulley Sayre. Sayer is a photo-illustrator and award-winning author of over 65 books. Learn more about her and her writing process in this Q
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Thank you, Earth!

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What if you traveled thousands of miles to take beautiful photos of all of the gifts you’ve received over the years? And then you wrote a lovely poem to accompany the images? That is what April Pulley Sayre does in her book, Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet (Greenwillow
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