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2000 Roses promotes sustainability through people, products and community
By Rita Cook Sustainability is cultivated in many forms by the 2000 Roses Foundation. The Dallas-based organization has grown from a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for formerly incarcerated women to operating an upscale resale store that supports occupational training for the women to promoting community preservation. Together its objectives give new purpose to people, products...
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Artist Sarah Reiss Recycling Wood to Make One-of-a-Kind Tables
Recycle and Reclaim / Shopping Green By Rita Cook With two product lines of reclaimed and recycled wood tables, Dallas-resident artist Sarah Reiss says her most popular line is called the Chevron series, which are geometric tables that she constructs from a combination of woods... Read more...
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Dallas Parks Foundation - promoting Dallas parks
 Urban Sustainablitity / Green Nonprofit Organization By Rita Cook The Dallas Parks Foundation was a nominee in the 2012 Green Source DFW Environmental Leadership Award, Grass Roots category.  According to Samuel F. Stiles, Director of the Foundation, the... Read more...
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Weekly Green Roundup - Green Source's New Meetup Group, A Holiday Trail of Lights, and More
(Photo: Barternder mixing with the fresh, organic ingredients available at the People's Last Stand, site of Green Source DFW's first 2013 mixer)  Published 12/13/2012  If you’re looking for events, Green Source DFW is now managing a meetup group - http://www.meetup.... Read more...
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How will the Seaway Pipeline Impact the Dallas and Fort Worth Area?
  Environmental Issue  By Rita Cook How many readers have heard of the Seaway Pipeline?Are Tarsands already flowing to the Texas Gulf Coast without the Keystone XL pipeline?.Chris Guldi, creator of a website called Stopseawaypipeline and an advocate against the Seaway... Read more...
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Green Gift Idea: Book showcases Flower Mound’s botanical riches
Nature / Shopping Green By Julie Thibodeaux   Most people have heard of the Denton County suburb, but not many have been up to the actual “Flower Mound” where the city got its name. Legend goes, Native Americans considered the Mound a sacred site and buried their... Read more...
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bcWORKSHOP - a nonprofit community design center in Dallas Texas
  Green Architecture / Community Develpment  By Rita Cook    Known as bcWORKSHOP, the first question might be exactly what does that mean.  Translation; founded in 2005 and gaining 501(3) status in 2008, the buildingcommunityWORKSHOP located in... Read more...
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Weekly Green Roundup - A Holiday Market at White Rock, Community Day at OS Natural Gray Area, & More
(Photo: A view of the OS Gray Natural Area)     This week's weekly green roundup features a holiday market at the place named best farmers market by the Dallas Observer (something we can agree with), a community day at White Rock Local Market, and more.  White... Read more...
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Real Christmas Trees are the Green choice
Shopping Green / Green Products   By Teresa McUsic     The holidays are a time for lots of buying decisions, which makes it a perfect time to go green.    What better way than to start with the tree.    Many consumers still... Read more...
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Lucky Layla Family Farms produces award winning dairy products in the Dallas / Fort Worth Area
Green Products  By Minnie Payne     Lucky Layla Family Farms is a Dallas / Fort Worth area producer of low processed/low preservative/low additive drinkable yogurt, cheese, milk caramel.  The the most recognized product is Lucky Layla drinkable... Read more...
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Activist Kim Feil is Arlington’s loudest voice against gas drilling
Environmentalist Profile    By Julie Thibodeaux      Kim Feil doesn’t mind making a scene when it comes to gas drilling.  In one appearance before the Arlington City Council, the Arlington-based activist “rapped” her complaints about gas... Read more...
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