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After years of fighting to keep uranium mines from surrounding the Grand Canyon, environmental groups won the fight when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed the Record of Decision. For the next 20 years, there will be no new uranium mines on more than one million acres of federal land.

Naturally Earth Friendly writes that composting household and yard waste provides a way to balance our waste process of household items and deliver nutrient rich compost.

Everyday 20 million plastic baggies go into landfills. Parents are fighting back with LunchSkins and in 2010 LunchSkins has saved more than 120 million plastic baggies from landfills. Let's continue to do what we can and replace hundreds of plastic baggies with reusable bags.

It's believed that Coco Chanel inspired society's trend towards tanned skin in the 1920s. After a visit to the French Riviera where Coco Chanel spent a little too much time out in the sun, she returned to Paris with a darker skin tone. Apparently society loved the look and a new trend in darker skin tones was set.

If you're a breastfeeding mom in the United States, then there's good news in time for taxes.