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Live Green Toronto Membership Card Get exclusive offers and discounts on green products and services when you shop at more than 300 Toronto businesses—simply by showing your Live Green Toronto Membership Card. Get your FREE Live Green Toronto Membership Card today. The Membership Card program is one more way that Live Green Toronto supports and inspires [...]


Weleda Skin Food

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Green Beauty is the eco beauty authority—a weekly column that highlights the best in eco beauty products, brands, trends and techniques. “We are what we eat.” This is a common cliché for foodies everywhere, but what about the products that our skin ingests? With winter’s cold snap enveloping a large part of the globe, we [...]


Ask Sheri :: Luminous Skin

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Ask Sheri is a weekly column devoted to answering all of your beauty questions and queries, with a focus on natural, organic and sustainable products, practices and companies. Navigating the beauty aisles has never been easier. Send in your beauty questions to asksheri@bamboo-magazine.com Q: Hi Sheri, My skin is dull and drab and, with winter [...]


Hey, Shorty

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Leather shorts are one of my ultimate year-long staples. Find a pair of good quality leather pants at a thrift store. Make sure the waist fits, but don’t worry about awkward legs or weird cuts. Simply measure against a pair of shorts you already like, cut at the same length, and roll up the hem—you’ll [...]


Coconut Vegetable Curry

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Very Veggie features a weekly recipe that showcases the best in vegetarian, sometimes vegan, dishes, with helpful cooking and ingredient tips and tricks. Spices common in Indian foods have a kick to them that can sizzle up food on a cold winter day. Ingredients: 1 onion 1 to 2 tsp sea salt 1/4 cup coconut [...]


Olivier, Waterloo

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Green Beauty is the eco beauty authority—a weekly column that highlights the best in eco beauty products, brands, trends and techniques. When you come across a beautiful store that sells to-die-for products and has a friendly and super- knowledgeable owner (not to mention stylish), it’s only going to keep you coming back again and again. [...]


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Cozy Chai Latte

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Very Veggie features a weekly recipe that showcases the best in vegetarian, sometimes vegan, dishes, with helpful cooking and ingredient tips and tricks. Many warm drinks contain added artificial flavours and sweeteners. Here is a chai latte that is both delicious and healthy. Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 cup rice or almond milk 1 cinnamon [...]


Kaia Cleansing Cloths

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Green Beauty is the eco beauty authority—a weekly column that highlights the best in eco beauty products, brands, trends and techniques. If you walk down the skin care aisle in any drug store, you will be struck with the vast variety of cleansing cloths. Most cosmetic companies are represented in this category. However, until Kaia [...]


What’s the Deal with Carbon Offsets?

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We all do our best to limit the carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas emissions in our daily lives. Many people make New Year’s resolutions to drive less, fly less, walk and bike more, or buy local and green. Still, all of us will inevitably create some emissions and want to do something to counteract our [...]