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		<title>Girl Supported Agriculture</title>
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This summer Girls Gone Green has been managing the Girls Club CSA. Every Tuesday we would collect fruits and vegetables from our female farmers and distribute the goodies to our CSA members between the hours of 4-7 pm. The CSA lasts from June until November.
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. CSA members are purchasing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fence Painting for Everyone!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday on August 5th, we had a fence painting where all the girls and artists painted.  There were four professional artists to help us out even though the girls alone are great artists. There were also volunteers who helped paint and had fun along the way. There were spray paints that everyone was eager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moby&#8217;s World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the GGG crew was on a mission to interview the artist and activist, &#8220;Moby&#8221; (Richard Melville Hall). Being that we&#8217;re an environmental group, we talked with him about one of his pressing concerns: how the over consumption of meat leads to global warming. Moby&#8217;s new book, Gristle , addresses this relationship in detail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Under Your Sink?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that your everyday household cleaning products are toxic? As you can see from this photo in addtion to cleaning product many people keep pesticides and rodenticides. Many New Yorkers including those in the L.E.S live in physically substandard housing with roach and mice infestations. Therefore, people tend to use pesticides like Raid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Using Hazardous Toxic Products!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day we took a trip to Fine Fare supermarket to compare the difference between cleaning products made with toxic chemicals and organic cleaning products. We got to the detergent aisle and noticed we were surrounded by some of the most harmful products for everyday use in households. There was a whole section for Roach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall of Raid</title>
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This is a photo taken in a local Fine Fare super market. It shows the wide variety of pesticide products available in a typical LES market. Many LES apartments have serious pest problems and people use these toxic products to kill the roaches. They are using these sprays and foggers without knowing how dangerous they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another ADVENTUROUS day at the Girls CLub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Girls Gone Green was on a mission to compare the prices of organic and non-organic fruits, vegetables, meats and poultry at different grocery stores in the LES (Whole Foods, Key Foods, and Fine Fare). When we examined the meats we compared not only the price per lb but also the quality (for example, Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Eats &#38; Healthy Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the Girls Gone Green did some research on the cheap and  unhealthy food options in comparison to expensive and healthy food options in the LES.  We realized  that the cheaper stores have organized their products poorly while  expensive stores such as Whole Foods have their foods beautifully organized. We  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MISSION: EXPLORE THE POLLUTED CITY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 21st the Girls Gone Green were on a mission to explore the neighborhood around Con-Edison. By doing so, we&#8217;d be able to see how communities were affected by industries surrounding them.
It&#8217;s amazing to see that this plant (Con-Edison) provides electricity to most of lower Manhattan. It is a great thing for New Yorkers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indoor Cleaning Products</title>
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This is a photo taken in a Lower East Side supermarket. The girls in the Girls Gone Green program at the Lower East Side Girls Club went to the super market to see how many toxic cleaning products versus how many environmentally friendly products the stores displayed. These cleaning products have volatile organic compounds, which [...]]]></description>
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