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Casota no Paraíso by Luís Estrela

Tall trees of green growing down to the valley floor.

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Pool! by r.f.m II
Wen’t over to my friend Jake’s house and while he was playing Halo 3 on xbl I was sitting around bored… So I took a picture of his pool table because of how bored I was. If you didn’t notice I did use my fisheye for this picture…

Rising Sun, MD
August 19, 2008

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
ISO Speed: 100

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I’m glad Robby got bored because this picture is perfect for the Top Green Gallery. I’m also glad you used the fisheye, it gave it the quality that made the picture have more interest.

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Bobbi Miller-Moro wrote for Earth Savvy about a visit to the Green Ambassadors. Bobbi explains that the Green Ambassadors is part of an educational program at the Environmental Charter High School which empowers youth to know, understand, live and spread green ideas.

Read about how this program is working to be as green as they can be while teaching the latest techniques for green living.

The Green Ambassadors are a school centric green movement that is taking off as we speak.

Read Green Ambassadors New World Leaders in Training by Bobbi Miller-Moro for Earth Savvy

Does it sound good? Does it look good to you? Do you feel like drinking it? Do you want to smell it? No matter what your preferred sensory receptor, your body will appreciate the wholesomeness of this wonderful drink.

The Green Smoothie Queen challenged her readers to come up with great green smoothie drinks. Read this article to hear about the testimonials, stories and what feedback the readers of The Raw Divas Blog had to say.

If you are into strong colored drinks, you can learn here about Blue Smoothies.

Lightly floating on water, cool with the moisture from below, absorbing the warmth of the sun from above the leaf grows across the surface of the pond. The Victoria amazonica, who’s common name is Giant water lily or Amazon water lily, has leaves that can get up to 6′ wide.¹

It was a hot and sunny day at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois, USA when photographer Olaf showed up in the early afternoon. He was walking through the park that is adjacent to the greenhouses by the conservatory when he spied his subject, the Victoria amazonica.

The Victoria amazonica is one of Olaf’s favorite specimens so it is easy to see why this subject caught his eye. Taking the picture while standing, all it took was this one shot to get what he wanted.

Camera: Sony DSC-H9
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 23.4 mm
ISO Speed: 100

After asking Olaf what he liked about the green in the picture he said “The leaf is an awesome shade of green and it has a great texture.” Victoria amazonica is known for it’s sharp spines on the underside of the leaves that give it such a great texture. ¹

It’s Olaf’s love for plans started with his Grandmother “Granny” who worked three gardens in their village. She grew everything from Parsley, Cherries, Dill, Gooseberries, Dahlias and Gladiolas just to name a few.² Since that time with Granny, Olaf has been growing plants and that passion has grown into foliage photography. Olaf is now known for his plant photography. In fact, he has the permanent alias of flowerfreak on flickr.

Olaf told me what he liked about this photo, “The vigor of these plants. This is a SEEDLING(!) and it already has 3′-leaves!” He went on to tell me when I asked about the day, “It was a really hot day and I had some good conversations with some of the resident gardeners.” Talking about plants and taking pictures is “a blast” to Olaf.

The passion comes through in his photographs. Olaf is at ease with his camera and enjoys photography several times a week. He has become a better photographer through trial and error and is driven by his excitement of photography.

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1. Retrieved from the NC State University Website: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/water-garden/floatingplants/victoria_amazonica.html [↩] [↩]
2. Retrieved from Olaf’s flickr Profile Website: http://www.flickr.com/people/flowerfreak/ [↩]

Green Picture of the Day

Save The Green, Save The World

by Nattu
Any of about 10,000 – 12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the primitive horsetails and club mosses, botanists have since made a clear distinction between the scalelike, one-veined leaves of those plants and the more complexly veined fronds of the ferns, which are more closely related to the leaves of seed plants. Ferns come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes. Many are small, fragile plants; others are treelike (see tree fern). The life cycle is characterized by an alternation of generations between the mature, fronded form (the sporophyte) familiar in greenhouses and gardens and the form that strongly resembles a moss or liverwort (the gametophyte). Ferns are popular houseplants.

For more information on fern, visit www.britannica.com.

Location: Fuvahmulah / Maldives
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Green in Blogs

We’re Green, We’re Green… Oh, Did I Mention We’re Green? Now Buy From Us! by OzTech

This whole ‘green’ thing has gotten a little out of hand. The trend right now is caring for the environment. So now every company is sending out press releases with the word ‘green’ somewhere in the title detailing how environmentally aware their company is. If a company plants a tree at their campus headquarters, a press release is immediately sent out to capitalize on this fad. Here are a few recent examples.

Green in News

Defining green restaurants by Stefan Deeran for My Green Element

Organic food has been around for decades and many restaurants have a long history of operating their properties with an eye towards the environment. The organic food they serve is highly regulated, with certification standards (for better or worse) backed by the U.S. government.

Green Product

Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko

Editorial Reviews
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Author’s clear, masterful concept, so powerful - we can expect to see the world of health rocked to its foundations. –Thomas C. Chavez, Homeopath, Author of Body Electronics

It will bring health to millions and make life easier for all of us now. A must read! –Dr Ruza Bogdanovich, an internationally renowned lecturer and teacher on true nutrition, author of the famous book, The Cure is in the Cause.

Victoria’s new book will bring health to millions. A must read! –Dr Ruza Bogdanovich, author of The Cure is in the Cause

Dr Ruza Bogdanovich, author of The Cure is in the Cause
Victoria’s new book will bring health to millions. A must read!

Green Sports

Extreme Green Sports: Bungee Jumping with Vines - EarthFirst

If you thought normal bungee jumping with harnesses and ropes that have been extensively safety-tested is scary, check this out: tribe members (including children as young as 7 years old) jumping from wooden structures using nothing but jungle vines. Oh yeah, and there’s no net of any kind. The jumpers often graze the ground below. The slightest error could cripple or kill them.

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