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Bluefin tuna might be a delicious addition to your sushi platter, but the poor, overfished bluefin is not the best choice when it comes to sustainability. Luckily, more and more people are becoming attuned to the importance of sustainable seafood: A new NPR-Truven Health Analytics Health Poll of 3,000 Americans found that 80% of people who eat fish often say that it’s "important" or "very important" that their fish is sustainably caught. In addition, many respondents said they’d be willing to pay more for sustainable seafood.
 

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Although climate change is often politicized, a new poll from the American Lung Association shows that clean air is important to everyone, regardless of what side of the aisle they stand on.
 
The bipartisan poll of 800 registered voters shows that most people—across gender, racial, geographic, and political party lines—favor stricter air pollution standards from the EPA. It also shows that voters feel good about the EPA and the Clean Air Act.
 

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Newsflash: The Tide is Turning!

Author: Seventh Generation
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There's huge news from the nation's cleaning product cupboard: Procter & Gamble, one of the biggest cleaner companies on the block, is reformulating Tide and Tide Free & Gentle laundry detergents so they contain much less of a troubling toxin called 1,4-dioxane.

This is a happy moment for consumers and for us, too. A whole lot of laundry is about to get a whole lot less worrisome, and here on our own home front, we feel like we've won a tremendous personal victory.

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If you've ever dealt with one of those "uh-oh" messes, you'll know why parents everywhere are loving our new and improved Free & Clear Baby Wipes. Larger, softer and more moist than our old wipes, our new Free & Clear Baby Wipes combine gentle, cloth-like performance with the thickness you need to wipe away little (and big) messes.
 

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Resolutions For A Happily Green New Year

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Welcome to 2013! It's a brand new year and a fresh chance to make a difference in the health of our families and the world we share. For most of us, that means committing to some New Year's resolutions, those time-honored promises that we'll do better where it counts. Here's the list that we've created at Seventh Generation. We invite you to make it yours as well.

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The 12 Ways of Christmas

Author: the Inkslinger
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No matter what holidays you're celebrating this season, the odds are good that there'll be a few extra lights, a party or two, many mysterious parcels, and lots of garbage bags. And that's just for starters. Fun for us, but perhaps not so much for the environment. Here are 12 ways to change that and jingle your bells sustainably.

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Teens Turning Green

Author: sheila hollender
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I have tried to live a sustainable lifestyle for the last twenty five years. I started my quest to be the best “green mom” I could be when my oldest daughter was born. What gives me the greatest pleasure, as I look back over the years, is meeting young women who have the passion to help educate their contemporaries about healthy, sustainable lifestyles.
 

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Caring a Whole Awful Lot

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What do Sumatran Orangutans, Seventh Generation, The Philadelphia Zoo, Dr. Seuss and a Burlington elementary school have in common?

Far more than you might imagine.

This past April, The Philadelphia Zoo launched the "Unless" Campaign. Based on the prophetic words of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, the campaign is a five-year initiative to raise awareness of the near extinction of the Orangutan and to promote the use of sustainable palm oil as a means of protecting the remaining habitat of this great ape.

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Turning E-waste into E-treasure

Author: the Inkslinger
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When I was a kid, life featured just four noteworthy pieces of high-tech wonder: the phone, a tube TV, a transistor radio and the holy hi-fi. Only the radio was portable. And whatever the family had when you were six was still there when you left for college. Now it all slips in your pocket and becomes an antique before it's out of the box.

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Here in the far northern boondocks, my wallet now shrieks in horror every time it sees a gas pump. But $3.84 a gallon is nothing compared to California, where gas is nearly a dollar more. People are driving all over creation trying to shave a few pennies off the price. But what if we could save that cash and more every time we hit the accelerator?

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