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Why You Should Live Green

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In June 2003 the European Commission adopted a Communication on an integrated product policy (IPP) aiming to reduce the environmental impacts of products, where possible by using a market-driven approach that combines competitiveness with social concerns. As a family, plant a garden or a tree and watch it grow.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Today a poor person in America probably has access to electricity, telephones, food, indoor plumbing, central heat and public transportation. There is a plant called poke that the mountain folks used for greens, but the kids had another use for that plant. She made June bug strings, I made clover flower necklaces.

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