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As we enter this fall season the days are get-
ting shorter, the welcome cool air is mov-
ing in and we will have the opportunity to
watch the candidates for leading our country
debate the key issues on television. Although
the first two things happen every year, the
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debates this time around may actually
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include discussions about how we interact with our environment and what
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the fall.
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Green has officially hit the mainstream. Our family has enjoyed the
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product innovations and even adapted some older concepts like compost-
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ing and the planting of our very own organic garden. It seems like every-
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thing we do has environmental consequences that should be minimized or
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at the very least acknowledged. Some of the things that bother us most are
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the take out containers at “healthy” restaurants, big and wasteful packag-
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ing, bottled water and virgin paper products. These things are considered
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little offenses but in the aggregate with an over consuming American public
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multiplies into quite a mess.
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Our industry, publishing, is responsible for massive deforestation, the
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Sunday newspapers alone account for 500,000 trees each week. Glossy
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magazines are printed on virgin paper that uses in excess of 35 million trees
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each year. Worse yet as paper recycling picks up because of our new green
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of what’s gathered. All of us at natural awakenings have been tempted or
asked to go glossy and voted as a group that it’s not consistent with our phi-
losophies and messaging. If we are going to help initiate change to healthy
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