ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Home economics
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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SAVE THE PLANET
WHADDYA KNOW?
The Green Guide offers "green home makeovers" and this pop quiz:
(Answers: Hardwood flooring; false; dishwashers)
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FINAL WORD
"If in one aspect of your life you're trying to be green, that has profound spillover effects."
Bruce Butterfield | research director at the National Gardening Association
