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A year ago when Planet Green was in beta, we did a big push on Thanksgiving. We recyle a few of them here. Collin Dunn writes:

We recycle a few posts on Thanksgiving from an early beta Planet Green last year. Kelly Rossiter writes:

Barley Risotto with Turkey and Mushrooms

Thanksgiving was our first holiday when Planet Green was in beta a year ago. We recycle a few of the posts here. Kelly Rossiter writes:

Food-borne illnesses are always an issue in the kitchen. Thanksgiving seems rife with food-poisoning possibilities, so here are some tips to keep your family and friends healthy and happy.

1. Always wash your hands thoroughly before handling food of any kind. Remember to wash them every time you touch raw poultry-and I mean every time.

2. If your turkey is fresh, remove the innards right away and rinse out the cavity with cold water. Pat dry with paper towels. Keep it refrigerated until you are ready to stuff it.

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New Yorkers, want some green inspiration this Thursday night? Head down to 92Y Tribeca for American Media & the Green Movement.

Welcome to our new "TreeHugger Deals" column, which will run every Tuesday and is exclusively for TreeHugger readers.

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School teachers, listen up! This is a call for help. You are one of the first lines of defense in the environmental movement. In a few short years, the upcoming generation will decide the fate of this planet. And when it comes to how to teach children science, math, and geography, you're the best at it. The interdisciplinary skills they learn today will be the planet-saving skills they enlist tomorrow. Now, we know that's a lot to bear on your shoulders, so we've put together a guide that will help you in the classroom -- and outside it, too.

One of the best ways to save money is to make your own food, and this is the best time of year to do it, as the farmers markets overflow with the bounty of fall. At Planet Green, food writer Kelly Rossiter has been canning and bottling everything in sight, laying in supplies for the winter. She previously showed us how to find our dinner at the farmers market; Now she shows us what do to with it. Unless noted otherwise, all pictures by Kelly Rossiter.

Preserving the Harvest: Four Ways to Make Homemade Preserves

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Can’t wait until September 2nd to get your Bill Nye fix? Well, that’s good because you can check it out tonight during a sneak peek of Stuff Happens on Planet Green.

Can’t wait until September 2nd to get your Bill Nye fix? Well, that’s good because you can check it out tonight during a sneak peek of Stuff Happens on Planet Green.

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Oh Facebook. That 2.0 of Myspace, which allows members to catch up with frenemies from high school they never wanted to see again, as well as find embarrassing pictures about themselves the day after the all night kegger. But, with 90 million users, thats a lot of energy and potential mobilization for good that can also come out of the site. Here is a roundup of some of the green applications on Facebook that you too can use to save the planet, or at least learn about it.

This past weekend, around 150,000 happy people danced and swayed to sixty four bands ranging in style from rap to indie rock in the first ever Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco. Outside Lands not only blessed the hallowed stomping ground of the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin with Golden Gate Park’s first night concert in history (environmentally conscious Radiohead did the honors), it also celebrated San Francisco’s eco-loving energy in a serious way.