Features | Opinion | Videos | Calendar | Advertise Thursday, February 9, 2012
POSTS BY Amelia Baker
Amelia Baker is a western Pennsylvania native, Waynesburg to be exact. She left the small 'burg for ODU, then on to Southern California where the green bug really caught up with her and her husband. Working for Corporate America and trudging through her MBA at Cal State Long Beach, Brandon and Amelia were quick to leave Cali after grad school, but not without a break from the rat race. A three-month hiatus from the real world granted them a glorious travel break with cross-country adventure and European backpacking. After landing back on US soil, the Bakers set up shop quickly purchasing Green Alternatives earth-friendly general store and the rest is history.

Green Trends of 2010

By Amelia Baker

My life on the front line of eco retail–combined with the most-viewed, most talked about, most purchased enviro-finds–leads to this handful of green trends for 2010.

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Backyard Chickens: Now You’re Clucking.

By Amelia Baker

The Chicken or The Egg? Both Please.

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How To Start Being Green Now

By Amelia Baker

With spring many of us are resolving to lose our winter weight. Why not also create a healthier lifestyle along with that?

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Living the Green: Alternative Transportation

By Amelia Baker

Pledge to use alternative transport on Earth Day and Green Alternatives & AltDaily will give you treats.

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$50K in Funding for local Gardens is a Click Away

By Amelia Baker

A local group is a few thousand votes away from winning a $50,000 grant to be used for ten community gardens throughout Hampton Roads. Login and help make it happen.

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Green Q & A

By Amelia Baker

Our resident Green expert talks local vs. organic, the perceived high cost of being green, and the Sustainable Living Fair this weekend at Waterside.

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Community Gardening the Green Way

By Amelia Baker

I’m convinced that food you actually grow does taste better. It has to.

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The Drug-less Medicine Cabinet Exposed

By Amelia Baker

Tis the season for eternal runny noses and deep coughs, I thought I’d give an alternative approach to treatment. I’m one to self medicate instead of going to the doctor so I’ll usually try just about anything.

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Local vs Organic, and All Your Other Green Questions

By Amelia Baker

In addition to the bi-weekly green perspectives I dish, I’m excited to be able to take your questions or concerns and share my greenie knowledge with you. In this column I address the question of local vs organic, which is better?

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Green Holiday Shopping Guide

By Amelia Baker

Here you have it, a one-of-a kind, tailored Green Shopping Guide for Hampton Roads.

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Give Thanks Greener

By Amelia Baker

I was planning out Thursday’s event calendar to make sure we stayed true to our green roots when I thought that others aspiring to be a little greener this year may want some helpful tips and hints.

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Local Review: No Impact Man

By Amelia Baker

In “No Impact Man,” Colin Beavan drags his wife Michelle and daughter Isabella along for a 365-day project to live with no impact. That means absolutely zero environmental footprint as a result of their daily lives.

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The Most Environmentally Friendly Way to Eat Meat: Buy The Whole Cow

By Amelia Baker

Some ways of eating meat are more environmentally sustainable than others. Amelia from Green Alternatives teaches us about owning your own cow makes the most green sense.

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No More SPSA Curbside Recycling: One Little Step Back to Take A Big Step Forward

By Amelia Baker

Good riddance to SPSA, and here’s to a more comprehensive, forward thinking recycling program for Hampton Roads.

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Trash Talk: What Happens to Hampton Roads’ Trash?

By Amelia Baker

Green Alternative’s Amelia Baker follows Hampton Roads’ roughly 6.4 million pounds of trash a day and 2.3 billion pounds of waste a year from your bin to its final resting place.

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Blue Goes Green: The Greening of ODU

By Amelia Baker

A primer on all the ways ODU is leading the pack when it comes to greening the campus, including such innovations as a water cistern under Foreman Field and using tree trimmings to feed hippos at Norfolk Zoo.

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How Green is the Seven Cities?

By Amelia Baker

Your local greenie–Amelia Baker, owner of Green Alternatives–judges whether or not Hampton Roads has developed a strong relationship with earth-friendly habits and happenings.

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