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A Celebration of the Earth

A few years ago I answered the questions on a “What’s Your Footprint?” test on a website that gave points or demerits in accordance with how choices you made in your lifestyle affected the earth. I ended up with a negative footprint. How is that? Is it mounded up instead

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Living Green With Pets: A Garden for Your Cats

No one is certain why cats eat grass, or houseplants, or other vegetable matter that shouldn’t be of any interest to them. In the diet of an obligate carnivore green matter plays very little role, and in fact species-appropriate diets approach vegetable matter at the rate cats would find it

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Living Green With Pets: Leave the Lilies Outside

For kitty’s sake, this Easter plant that Easter lily outside! And plan ahead for what flowers you may give as gifts or bring into your own home. Many of the flowers symbolic of this holiday or used for decoration this time of year including flowers from spring-blooming bulbs such as

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Living Green With Pets: Spring Cleaning

I’ve had more than one cat who loved the smell of bleach, but Namir really acted on his indulgence. As soon as I began to scour the tub with cleanser, he would appear on the landing outside the bathroom door, nose bobbing in the air, a faraway look in his

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Living Green With Pets: Flowers for Your Valentine

Apparently, you can’t go wrong with roses, either for your Valentine or for your kitty—as long as they don’t have thorns! The roses, I mean. Not the kitties. Valentine’s Day is Thursday, so if you are making your plans to give flowers, if the recipient has pets, be aware of

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“Cans for Pets” Donates Five Cents Per Can to ARL

Think of all the cat food cans you’ve opened in your history of feeding cats. Imagine if recycling each can generated a five-cent donation to an animal shelter. Would you peel off the label, rinse out the can and toss it into a container to take it to the shelter

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Living Green With Pets: Look for the Leaping Bunny

Along with making sure our pets aren’t harmed by chemicals we use around our house and yard, we can also make sure that other animals aren’t harmed by our choices either. We can do this by choosing “cruelty-free” cosmetics, beauty products and household products, but what does this really mean,

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Living Green With Pets: Bringing Plants Indoors

We always seem to have an unexpected snowfall at this time of the year, right when the geraniums are looking their best and even plenty of tender plants are still blooming. While I’ve known for weeks I needed to do something with my plants before they ended up as frozen

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Living Green With Pets: Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin!

October is the month for pumpkins! Get some fresh organic pumpkins now to process for your pets, snacks for yourself, and free bird seed for your feathered friends. If you haven’t noticed, pumpkins are coming into season. In part it’s because they are elemental in our Halloween tradition, color, shape,

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Living Green With Pets: Art Cats

“No art project can begin until someone tastes the paint water.” Wise words from Kelly, who learned this from Cookie and fully embraced it, being second in line for any container of water I set aside or had on hand for any purpose. And for that reason, years ago I

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