Bill McKibben is the author of the first book to recognize global warming as a very serious issue, The End of Nature, and now he has been fighting climate change for almost twenty years. He’s …
Read More...Here’s another installment on the link between meat consumption and climate change. Oh, and hope everyone had a wonderful Earth Day!
Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet
American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more …
Read More...From Gizmodo:
Biodegradable Plastic Bag Disappears in Four Months, Along With Your Earth-Killing Guilt
The reason plastic is awesome is that it’s super durable, so it lasts forever. The problem is that it lasts forever, even when …
Read More...As if overnight, bisphenol-a, or BPA, for short, has become the talk of the town. While scientists and public health officials have long expressed their concern about the toxicity of this chemical, a common component …
Read More...From the Washington Post:
Bush Revises Strategy on Curbing Greenhouse Gases
By H. JOSEF HEBERT and DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 16, 2008; 5:09 PM
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Wednesday called for a halt in …
I often wonder if, somewhere between talk of melting polar ice caps and migrating polar bears, the crux of the climate issue gets lost. On a surprisingly regular basis, I find myself engaged in conversations …
Read More...From Grist:
‘State Farm can get you back behind the wheel’
Posted by David Roberts at 11:15 PM on 03 Apr 2008
Witness the humiliation as this distinguished professional is forced to … my God, I can barely …
A Scrap Metal Recycle-Off in Maryland
From left, Sarah Smith, Abe Sauer, Nico Judge and Tom Rojas dump scissors, nails and other scrap metal into recycling bins in Cabin John. The town is competing …
Read More...This past Saturday from 8-9pm, towns and cities across the world went dark. No, not mass blackouts. Earth Hour 2008. A choice, made by individuals and institutions, to turn off lights for an hour in …
Read More...We’ve all been told that money can’t buy us love. According to the results of a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia, it won’t buy happiness either.
Here’s to living simply!
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