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Eco Design + Living focuses on the built and natural environments as they relate to the two most important things we need to sustain ourselves, shelter and food. Written by Chandra F. Hartman, this blog provides vingettes of information about living sustainably on the Gulf Coast. Visit the Eco Design + Living website for more information. Most importantly, live well.
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Back to the Water Cooler

Posted 04-19-2009 at 07:31 AM by Chandra (Eco Design + Living)
Updated 04-22-2009 at 11:24 PM by Chandra
Plastic bottle or stainless steel? This NY Times Op piece by Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris sums it up. How Green Is My Bottle?

To summarize, if you think you will buy more than 50 plastic water bottles in your lifetime, then stainless steel is a better environmental choice.

If you only plan on buying one, then plastic has less of an impact on the planet.

Read the story...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...419bottle.html

Eco Design + Living is an online resource for living sustainably on the Emerald Coast and beyond. For more information e-mail chandra@cfhdesignstudio.com
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Fresh & Local

Posted 04-16-2009 at 08:57 AM by Chandra (Eco Design + Living)
Updated 04-22-2009 at 11:25 PM by Chandra
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...it doesn't get much better than this.


The photo doesn't do this breakfast of eggs benedict justice. Before my significant other could take the first bite, I quickly whisked it away for a photo shoot.

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farm fresh, organic, and REAL free-range eggs - Twin Oaks Farm

hollandaise sauce - prepared fresh with eggs from Susan Horn's hens

tomato & cabbage sprout salad - tomatoes from Perennials & Natives by a Girl Named Toni and sprouts by Moonlight Micro-Farm

bible bread - For The Health Of It

Eco Design + Living is an online resource for living sustainably on the Emerald Coast and beyond. For more information e-mail chandra@cfhdesignstudio.com
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