The Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office in Westwood is participating in The Day of 1,000 Open Houses, an annual Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage New England home-tour extravaganza.

The weekly family shop has never been so expensive. This month the Office for National Statistics warned that food prices are rising at their fastest pace since records began.

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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is on a shopping spree to combat sporadic food shortages that have dented his popularity, using record income from oil exports to offset the impact of global food prices.

If saving trees is not enough to convince you to recycle, how about a little green in exchange for going green?