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Finding yourself a little sustainably stuck with regard to your holiday shopping? Get out of the green gift giving rut by checking out this list, green gifts for tots, compliments of www.inhabitat.com

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A Waste Free Holiday Guide

Our favorite green girl of Los Angeles, Tracy Hepler from Your Daily Thread.com, provides us with some great tips to green this gift giving season.

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Raising Non-Toxic Kids

Kim Carlson, the Earth Smart Consumer and Start Green's December Guest editor gives us some great tips with regard to raising non-toxic kids. Be sure to read this informative article and help influence the future generation of our globe by getting th...

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Game Companies Going Green With New Cases

Just in time for the holidays, game companies are going green. Now your Xbox, Playstation and other family game favorites have a green component. Read more from Xbox 360 news.

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Making Buildings More Efficient: it Helps to Understand Human Behavior

The power of influence and peer pressure can help you go green? That's an attempt journalist David Roberts from Grist.com attempts to explore in this post on making buildings more efficient and the co-relation of human behavior.

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Black Friday v. Cyber Monday

Who shops more? In the store or online? Did Black Friday or Cyber Monday generate more money? Tree Hugger.com explores the question this holiday season.

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Gates Foundation Awards $1 Million Dollars to Cairo's Garbage Village

What would you do with $1 million dollars especially if it was given to you by Bill Gates? That's the question one Egyptian village has to answer now that they've received the lump sum from Microsoft's most generous philanthropist. Read on for more.

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12 Cool Things to do With Used Dryer Sheets Don't Throw Away That Fabric Softener!

The Daily Green provides us with a great way to reuse or dryer sheets. Who would have thought?!?!?!

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Slash on Youth Homelessness And The LAYN Rocks! Benefit Concert

Slash and friends join forces to battle youth homelessness in Los Angeles during the LAYN Rocks! benefit concert November 22 at the Avalon Hollywood. Check out this video from our favorite guitarist.

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Gangsters go Green!

Organized crime has been going green....the mere thought of this is so crazy. And if you think the story stops here, read on. We were surprisingly shocked! Not even Tony Soprano could think of some of these green schemes.

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Guest Editors

Kim Carlson

Kim Carlson is an author, columnist and the founder of five successful companies that use earth-friendliness as their driving force. Carlson's book, "Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Eco-Footprint"explores the many advantages of being an environmentally responsible business. Her latest venture is the development of the EarthSmart Consumer Certified, a retail product certification program devised in collaboration with the country's leading scientists, academics and environmentalists that will prove to be the most innovative environmental screening process to date. Kim Carlson is the January guest editor of Start Green. For more information on Kim, please visit her site http://www.earthsmartconsumer.com

Jaclyn Mullen

Jaclyn Mullen has one foot on the "green" carpet and one foot on the red carpet. She contributes for Your Daily Thread.com and Hollywire.com on all things "green and on the scene" in Los Angeles, CA. She is an avid social activist in her community, she belongs to Step Up Women's Network and is a 2009 Commitment To Philanthropy Award Winner. As a youth advocate, Jaclyn's main initiative is to simplify going green for kids and their families. She will be a recurring guest editor and contributor for Start Green.com

Green Tips

Green Your Closet

Make a few simple changes to your clothes shopping habits and your wardrobe will be green in no time: choose natural fabrics and organic cotton while accessorizing with vintage.

Green Your Wash

Find a less toxic dry cleaner and avoid the toxic chemical percloro-ethelene (PERC) which can cause cancer and contaminate water supplies.

Treat Your Pet With Green Loving Care

“Human quality” pet food is all the rage these days including meats that are raised in a humane and sustainable manner.

Use Common Sense Pest Control

Seal up holes and cracks around your home’s foundation and cut off a pest’s food and water supply before reaching for the poison.

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Plant a Tree

Trees capture and hold carbon dioxide (a green house gas that is in a large part responsible for global warming) and provide shade that decreases the need for air-conditioning.

Go Green Within Your Network

They say there is strength in numbers for a reason. So grab a green buddy, whether it's your friend, mother, father, sister, co-worker of brother. Review the simple things you do to go green, search the net for green news and tips. See what you can do in your community to make things more eco efficient.

Recycle, recycle, recycle

If we are going to consume materials, let's make sure we explore ways for them to be repurposed and reused. Plastic that does not get recycled ends up in landfills and our oceans. More and more recycle centers are popping up and there are even a ton of recycling incentive programs (such as www.recyclebank.com and Think Green Rewards brought to you by Greenopolis.com

Get involved in your community

A big part of the green movement is volunteering. There was the whole "Green The Block" day, community gardens are sprouting up allowing people of all ages and from all walks of life to go green together. Look up Tree People, Heal The Bay or on a more local level, hit the web and research green groups you can join in your area.