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We all have a sense that green living is somehow better for us, better for our family, better for our Earth. But faced with the stress of modern life — the constant demands on our time — it’s easy to put off doing some of the things that will make a difference. We think green, but we don’t always act green.

Greenrightnow.com is dedicated to helping you start living a green life — right now. We’ll examine simple things you can do, or take bigger projects and break them down into easy-to-do steps that can be accomplished by anyone with just a bit of willpower.

We all are learning this new lifestyle together, so please share with us your tips and success stories. We can all be green and start to make a difference in the world — not at some future point when it’s convenient — but right now.

–Barbara Kessler

Barbara Kessler, has been editing and writing for Green Right Now since 2007. This gig follows a journalism career that started in TV, but mostly was spent in newspapers, mainly at the Dallas Morning News, where she covered a bucket list of things and specialized for a time in children’s welfare. She’s been purging her home environment of chemicals since having her own kids, who are now environmentalists in their own right. She grew up in the woods in northern Minnesota, riding horses, listening to barn owls and yes, at times, eating smelt. She helped her parents on their hobby farm. Business people by day, at home they gardened aggressively, composted and raised backyard chickens. (Funny how good ideas keep coming back.) Barbara has a BS in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago.

More from Barbara Kessler

Five fall foods that fight cancer
Fall is a delicious time to eat seasonal foods, and not just the comfort carbs of Thanksgiving, but the many fruits and vegetables that are harvested at this time in the Northern hemisphere. These foods can boost the health quotient of your autumn feast and provide snacks that keep the sugar monster at bay.
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Proposition 37, the biggest reason to vote for it
Graphic artist Rosemary Pant sent over her take on the California Right to Know campaign last week, and I’m posting a portion of it below. Ms. Pant described herself as a person who “knew little to nothing” about Prop. 37, the campaign to label genetically modified foods.
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The original Farm to Fork road show
WASHINGTON — Farm to Table refers to a movement promoting locally grown food which has been gaining traction in recent years. But not many people know that, before the movement was launched, a touring group was bringing “table to farm” to connect consumers to where their food comes from. It’s still doing that. One culinary adventure also honors local farmers.
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Student contest offers big prizes for essays about healthier, sustainable school food
High schoolers, are you fed up with cafeteria food. Do think “blech” and “meh” at when you see the day’s school lunch? Do you spend the noon break dreaming of a better, healthier menu? Put those thoughts into words and you may win a prize
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Texans opposed to an oil pipeline?
A major standoff over the Keystone XL pipeline in unlikely East Texas is becoming more than just a nuisance to pipeline operator TransCanada, as protesters have repeatedly stood in the path of clearing crews and occupied a tree village aimed as slowing progress on the project.
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Want to save energy? Yup, there’s an app for that
It’s getting easier to track your home or business energy use and find ways to reduce your energy consumption and costs.
Yes, there’s an app for this.
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The people vs. their food — the fight over Prop. 37 in California
On Nov. 6, California voters will say yea or nay to Proposition 37, which would require labeling for genetically modified or GM foods.

The issue, which became a ballot initiative after getting nearly a million petition signatures this past spring, appears to have wide popular support, according to polls. But it faces stiff opposition from pesticide makers like Monsanto, food companies, and dozens of California agricultural operations and business groups. Led by Monsanto, the opposition has collectively spent more than $34 million in advertising and public relations efforts opposing Prop. 37.
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Turns out, Americans ARE concerned about climate change
Dunno how we missed this one, but last month a major re-check of American sentiment on climate change found that a whopping 74 percent — despite all the jokes and dissembling haunting the official dialogue on the topic — think that climate change is “affecting weather in the United States.”
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