Newsbriefs
Gingerbread Adventures Teaches and Entertains Children
In the interactive Gingerbread Adventures exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden, children learn about the different plant parts used in creating one of their favorite holiday snacks, gingerbread. The Everett Children’s Adventure Garden is home of Gingerbread Adventures, through January 10, 2010.Vibrant vignettes of a gingerbread town deck the halls of the Discovery Center. A gingerbread jazz band, ice skaters and a gingerbread farmer are among the colorful characters displayed in the exhibit.
Popularity: 39% [?]
Localgreens: Sweet Holiday Treats
By Robin Mattson
Okay, here’s the thing…I could have come up with another way to use winter root vegetables for holiday entertaining. And it would have been great. But let’s be honest. That’s not what any of us really want, certainly not at this time of year. After the Thanksgiving leftovers are cleared out, my culinary thoughts turn to visions of sugared (anything) dancing in my head.
Every family has their favorite holiday cookies. This is the time of year we all dig up our long-cherished recipes that have been handed down from one generation to another. Eventually some cookies become tiresome, and are rotated out of the roster. But other recipes stand the test of time to become standards, replayed every year like classic holiday carols.
Popularity: 30% [?]
Healthbriefs
Celebrating Winter Solstice
In many cultures, traditions associated with the winter solstice on December 21—marking the longest night and shortest day of the year—spark celebrations. But with all the winter holiday to-dos and fewer daylight hours, this fun time of year can also be draining. Rituals can help us remember that life, like the sun, is cycling itself to rebound with strength.
Popularity: 6% [?]
greenliving: Throw a Green Party Eco-Entertaining Made Simple
by Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell
Whether you are still experimenting with ways to live green or are an experienced pro at an increasingly eco-friendly life, a party décor checklist is good to have on hand. The ultimate goal is hosting a zero-waste gathering, one that embraces only products and items that can be consumed, reused, recycled or composted.
Popularity: 45% [?]
“Birdie” Nesting at Newly Re-Designed All-Green Henry Miller Theatre
Bye Bye Birdie made its Broadway debut almost 50 years ago. Now Birdie is back on Broadway, this time at The Henry Miller Theatre on 43rd Street in Times Square. Audiences have been entering the theatre through the famous neo-Georgian façade since it first opened in 1918. But once through the front doors, the audience won’t remember ever having been there before. That’s because it’s all new…And all GREEN!
Popularity: 5% [?]
Naturalpet: Eco-Friendly Aquariums
Not all not aquariums are created equal when it comes to
sustainability. Energy used to run filters and lights is a
major concern. Where the fish originate is another, as
well as where they go at the end of the relationship.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Localgreens:Carve Yourself Into Some Sweet Sugar Pumpkin Pudding
By Robin Mattson
My CSA produce has gently shifted to autumnal rewards, lots of apples, winter squash like sweet sugar pumpkins and a variety of root vegetables, such as carrots, beets and potatoes. The colorful kale also continues to arrive, along with a huge head of cabbage. Depending on the weather and time of year these CSA pick- ups can be overwhelmingly abundant even with just a single share of the farm’s crops.
Popularity: unranked [?]
Globalbriefs
Green Halloween
Tricks for Earth-Friendly Treats
The scariest aspects of Halloween are the unhealthy sugar overload and disposable waste in costumes, decorations and pumpkins left to rot. Ranking second only to Christmas as America’s best-loved holiday in a FamilyFun.com poll, Halloween started going green across the country last year with the help of a grassroots, volunteer-run initiative on the Web at GreenHalloween.org.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Mainfeature
Coming Home to Yourself
When Your Home Expresses Who You Are
by Judith Fertig
Illustrations by Jill Butler
Home. It’s a small word for a universal idea, one that resonates deeply with complex individual meanings and associations.
Regardless of whether home is a room, apartment, cottage or mansion, how homey it seems depends first on two physical factors: light coming in on two sides and a view of greenery or sky, according to Clare Cooper Marcus, professor emerita of the departments of architecture and landscape architecture and environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Healingways
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL
YOGA MONTH
This month, yoga studios and instructors around the world are hosting events to introduce people to yoga, the 5,000-year-old practice that is their passion. Individuals can choose from many schools and yoga styles to find those best suited to their body type, personality and stage of life and fitness.
Popularity: 15% [?]