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The pressure is on. Who will have the most perfect dress for prom? The average girl will spend up to $500 on her prom dress that will be worn once and then banished to the closet. Go green, save money and reclaim your prom.

Creative ideas for your greener city.

There is no doubt that sustainability has to be achievable for the masses. In order for this world to become sustainable, people of all places and income levels need to have the option of sustainability available to them and that means big box stores need to largely get involved. Quite a few times now we have talk about Wal-Mart and their “green” efforts, but today I bear news about another big box store, Target.

Project Green Label is a young contemporary line made of organic cotton, bamboo and hemp.

Aussie Klara Marosszek has developed a commercially viable hemp building material. Fire and pest resistant hemp concrete is made by mixing hemp hurds (the pithy core of the stem), lime-based binder, water and a little sand. This is not a new technique, as century old bridges in France were made from hemp concrete.

My kind of girl.

The Congressman explains his new legislation.

When Jason Finnis launched his eco-textile company in the 1990s, he heard a lot of jokes about products made with natural fibres like hemp.

Car sales to Americans have fallen well below normal this year so far. This is an anomaly for the DiTech home re-fi'ing American public. The drop in sales portends future drops in sales, since Americans no longer have easy credit or home refinancing available to drop increasingly worthless dollars on gasoline-sucking self-propelled cages.

Today I would like to bring to your attention a company called Livity. I first came across this company via this article and looked a little closer into the company and liked what I saw. We have covered many different eco-friendly clothing companies here at Ecologicliving, but its all about spreading the word in hopes that someones next clothing choice will be a responsible one.

Like many scientific discoveries, this one was an accident as well.While maybe not as exciting as the Chernobyl discovery, not visually appealing as The Colombia Experiment or as lofty as The God Theory,The Trashoponics is an important discovery that brings mankind one step closer toward freedom and self-reliance.

Gotta give these guys a lot of credit for standing up to the feds, and demanding they be allowed to cultivate industrial hemp on their farms under existing state regulations.

A full description of how cannabis prohibition caused climate change. A very well written article by a hippie who promotes action be taken to end the war on drugs and focus on the environment. Check it out.