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Author Archives: Margie Suozzo
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Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with these Earth-friendly, Plant-based Fall Recipes
Have you been cooking a lot during the pandemic? Tired of the same old, same old? We’ve got some new recipes to spice up your life, just in time for […]
Continue Reading09 Sep 2020 |
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Smoke Getting You Down? Tips and Tricks for Cleaner Air.
Fires, fires, everywhere. And lately, they’re hitting closer to home which has made us all more appreciative of clean air. (Learn more about the link between climate change and air […]
Continue Reading02 Jul 2020 |
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Welcome GreenTown’s 2020 Summer Interns!
Welcome to our 2020 Summer Interns! It’s an unusual year with no in-person activities like bike valet or tabling at the Farmer Market but we’re making it work. On Zoom! […]
Continue Reading02 Jul 2020 |
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It’s July – Can you say “Plastic-Free”?
Hold the plastic bag! During this pandemic season, we’ve seen an uptick in the amount of plastic waste — from groceries disallowing reusable shopping bags to copious take-out from restaurants. […]
Continue Reading02 Jun 2020 |
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What’s Your FOODprint?
Interested in knowing how what you eat impacts the environment? Find out the size of your foodprint by watching this video and taking this quiz from Foodprint.org Then try these on […]
Continue Reading02 Jun 2020 |
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Donate: A Bike, Your Time, $$.
GreenTown has teamed with Silicon Valley Bike Exchange (SVBE) and Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) to provide essential workers with essential transportation (bicycles). The #BikeMatchSV program is inspired by New York’s […]
Continue Reading31 Mar 2020 |
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GreenTown Volunteers Sew Masks for Healthcare Workers
Last spring, in the spirit of reducing waste, GreenTown’s Waste Reduction Team held several sewing circles, creating produce bags from leftover fabric and handing them out at the Los Altos […]
Continue Reading31 Jan 2020 |
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The Joyful Vegan: Consider Compassion When Eating
She’s funny. She’s exuberant. She’s plant-based. On January 14, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau entertained a crowd of more than 75 people at the Los Altos Library for GreenTown’s monthly community forum. Patrick-Goudreu, […]
Continue Reading31 Jan 2020 |
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How Students for Green High Schools Amazed Us!
The grownups in the room were few and far between but each was wide-eyed in amazement at the power of youth at the sixth annual Students for Green High Schools […]
Continue Reading03 Feb 2019 |
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Ocean Plastics: What Goes Around Comes Around; Now In A Better Way
Hope. That was one of the main messages of a GreenTown-sponsored talk on “Ocean Plastics: Circular Economy and Green Chemistry Solutions” on Wed., Jan 23 at the Los Altos Library. […]
Continue Reading31 Jan 2019 |
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LAHS GreenTeam: Engaged Environmentalists Score An A+
Youth is rising! Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden has gotten a lot of media attention lately for holding adults accountable for the climate crisis. Through her strike against climate change […]
Continue Reading26 Nov 2018 |
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Poison in Cereal? At Parks? Yup. It’s Glyphosate.
by Samantha Enos Glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world, is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as “probably carcinogenic” to people. The IARC has […]
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