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• Green, Grown, & Sexy: Our fabulous list of Eco Valentine’s Day Goodies.
• RECIPE: Chocolate-Covered Almond-Tangerine Balls
• Don’t forget to buy your sweet ass self a gift for V day! These Valentine’s Are As Vegan As Your Vagine. And you’ll probably want everything on this blog… or at least want to forward it to your sweetie (hint/ hint!)
• Save Money, Save The World - learning how to find your financial power within and get rich this year.
• The Drop Dairy Challenge: Why, how, and what we have recently uncovered.
• RECIPE: Raw, Like (Vegan) Sushi.
• Are Your Accessories Poisoning You? A PVC controversy hits the mainstream.

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• How to stop kvetching, and actually find the love of your life.
• Martha Goes Vegan? Check out Martha Stewart clamoring for hemp seeds and chia powder in this video!  Get you jonesing for some seeds?  Grab a phat discount code for Navitas Naturals right here.
• Are you a college student in the tri-state area with sex smarts? By sex smarts, we mean do you practice safe sex and consistently get tested for STDs, including HIV? mtvU is looking for a student who is aware of what it means to take charge of their sex life, is sexually responsible, and can host an episode of mtvU’s Dean’s List all about your sex life and how you keep it safe. E-mail us at castme@mtvU.com by February 15th with a picture of yourself and a paragraph letting them know why you should be the host.
• Love to shop, but have minimal cash output right now?  We love Shopittome.com for the best discounts on your choice of brands.  You fill in your favorite designers, they tell you what’s on sale in your size.  Love it alert!
• What two letter word used more often has shown to keep couples together longer?
• Say it ‘aint so!! The Downside and risks (!!) of Agave Nectar
• This soy jersey ‘Underella’ chemise feels silkier and more luxe than silk, and keeps you nice and warm under those sexy dresses.
• Oh Madonna.. all that fur, foie gras, and plastic surgery is not serving you well! ‘Before’ Photo Confirms Photoshop at Play in Madonna’s Louis Vuitton Campaign. How about using all that power for some good?  We know some pit bulls who need a good home.
• You’ll want to scroll these rare photos for hours.  Think: Hitler as a baby, Jagger with a beard, and Brooke Shilds and Diana Ross out together in full 80’s splendor.
• Grab some master-your-own-finances tips in this informative video from our friend Amanda Steinberg at DailyWorth.com.
• Tattoo lovers will be all about perusing this sexy new blog that features interesting ink.
• Senator McCain files new bill that attacks your access to supplements and repeals key sections of the dietary supplement health and education act.  Trust us, you’ll want to sign this one asap.
• San Francisco artist emiko oye creates one-of-a-kind, urban jewelry and sculptures from recycled materials such as factory scraps, discarded toys and LEGO®, and sands from US internment camps that are utilized to spark discourse on current socio-political issues. Topics of focus are consumerism and value, corporate greed and the media, and war and civil rights violations. Jewelry as a seductive vehicle for awareness.. we likey.  Plus, her stuff just looks really cool.
• This sweet family is attempting to save 3 sociable cows from slaughter, and they need our help!
• Bill Maher Asks NASA to Halt Monkey Experiment Plan.
• This classic oxford in vegan suede in a gorgeous teal is $42 and adorable!
• The most precious way to re-use broken crayons that we’ve ever seen.
• Some of you have sworn off H&M after the recent dramas, some of you/ us never will.  For those of you/ us who will always pop in for the occassional $30 party dress, check it out: Sonia Rykiel for H&M - A First Look.
• Contrary to a widely held belief, having a “non-natural” instrumental or Cesarean birth doesn’t affect how long a mother breastfeeds, says a British study that included 2,000 new mothers.
• Artists: Submit your work for this dream residency.
• What You Eat After Working Out Matters.
• Snooki Gets a Make-under. And a Pantsuit. Watch out, Hillary.
• Grossus maximus; an “Aryans Only” dating website.
• You may want to join PETA at a showing of Catherine Zeta Jones’ newest play, Night Music,in NYC to inform the notorious fur hag of the suffering that goes into each fur garment she continues to heartlessly wear. As Jones enters the theater, PETA campaigner Ashley Byrne will show everyone what the production of a fur garment really entails.  Join them to hold posters and pass out leaflets, and help speak up for the millions of animals who are drowned, poisoned, electrocuted, or skinned alive for their fur every year. All materials will be provided, so just bring yourself, your friends, your family, and anyone else you can recruit to join you. RSVP here: SarahG@peta.org or 757-622-7382, extension 8397. When replying, please mention the location of the demonstration you plan to attend in the subject line. When: Saturday, February 13, 1-2 p.m. Where: Walter Kerr Theater, 230 W. 49th St., New York Please cross-post this e-mail message on Twitter, Facebook, and other social-networking sites, and forward it to others who might be interested in standing up for animals killed for fur. Visit FurIsDead.com for more information about the cruelty of fur and to sign our fur-free pledge!
• For REAL?! Gisele Bundchen says that her drug-free labor and delivery “didn’t hurt in the slightest.”
• Overwhelmed by all the different types of yoga? Read this article to determine which type of yoga is best for you.
• Artsy, designer-type, vegan, motorycle-obsesed, tattooed boys will dig resident GGA stud Lord J Davis’s new blog.
• More reasons we should all be eating more Chia Seeds.