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Backpack journalist Jeffrey Blackwell takes a look into the community of local growers and people who buy locally produced foods.


To the Market

 Carla Morris, 30 of Rochester is a local farm market shopper who loves locally grown produce. Recently she took her three-year-old daughter to the market to buy toppings for pizza.

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Daily Green Tip

Ditch the dryer sheets

Dryer sheets may seem small, but over the course of a year all those static-eliminating sheets add up. Here's a different approach to reduce waste and save some money. Take a washcloth and squirt about two tablespoons of liquid fabric softener on it and let it dry. Throw the dry cloth in with a load of clothes to be dried, and you'll see the same results as those single-use sheets. Each squirt will last for about five loads. -Courtesy CoolPeopleCare.org

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Controversial documentary on water shortages comes to the Dryden

The maybe too innocently titled feature film Flow: For Love of Water, which had its Rochester area premiere at this year’s High Falls Film Festival, will return for a special Saturday, Nov. 22 event at the George Eastman House. More


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 Dear EarthTalk: I caught the tail end of a discussion about “ecopsychology” recently on the radio, something about the negative impacts of people not communing with nature enough, spending too much time watching TV, sitting at computers, etc... Can you enlighten? -- Bridget W., Seattle, WA More...
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