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Social scientists respond to Mike Tidwell
The following is a guest essay in response to Mike Tidwell’s recent piece on Grist, “Voluntary actions didn’t get us civil rights, and they won’t fix the climate.” It is signed by a collection of social scientists, mostly psychologists. Their names are listed at the bottom. —- We agree that institutional and policy changes are […]
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Freegans get by just fine on others’ castoffs
Changed your light bulbs, gone vegetarian, sold your car, but still feel like your consumer impact is intolerable? It may be time to go freegan and learn to live off the waste that others throw out. Freegans gain most of their possessions and sustenance by foraging — for clothes, for furniture, and for grocery-store food […]
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Schools across the U.S. go green
Perhaps in an attempt to prepare students for an eco-college experience, many elementary, middle, and high schools are getting in on the green-building trend. Sixty schools across the U.S. have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, and 360 more are waiting to have applications approved; in 2000, only four schools applied for certification. […]
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Danish model plans to go (quite literally) green
Well, this certainly is an interesting way to show how green you are.
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Umbra on reusing bath water
Hi Umbra, My new (to me) house has a somewhat larger than standard bathtub with jets. I rarely have time for a bath, but last night took the opportunity to indulge. I had a nice soak, in water heated by solar energy, but then I had a tubful — perhaps 50 gallons? — of relatively […]
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Norway bans generic green terms from auto advertising
This is funny and kind of awesome: No car can be “green,” “clean” or “environmentally friendly,” according to some of the world’s strictest advertising guidelines set to enter into force in Norway next month. “Cars cannot do anything good for the environment except less damage than others,” Bente Oeverli, a senior official at the office […]
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All the PR is starting to sound the same
As everyone with a pulse knows at this point, green is hot. Everybody wants a piece of it. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a new green website. Consequently, your trusty blog author is bombarded with roughly five kerjillion press releases a day. And that’s a conservative estimate. What’s more, the PR releases […]
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From Big Macs to Beauties
Do you believe in tragic? Pledge to fight global warming — get a Big Mac? That’s like handing out SUVs as a reward for taking the bus to work. Except with more special sauce. Frock hunter To honor her father’s work wrestling crocs, snakes, and stingrays, 9-year-old Bindi Irwin will enter the jungle of the […]
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Inexpensive clothing industry has a big impact on the environment
That $5 T-shirt you’re wearing may have been a great find for your wallet, but the impact of such thrifty threads is far-reaching. A globalization-fueled glut of cut-price clothing has inspired many consumers to think of their duds as disposable. It’s a phenomenon some are calling “fast fashion” — the apparel equivalent of fast food. […]
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The L.A. Times covers the important debate over whom Laurie David should be dating
Gina Piccalo has a piece in the L.A. Times on the most vital issue facing the nation: green celebrity hypocrisy. It’s far more thoughtful and less glib than most discussions of that subject. Still, by the end of the piece I was ready to jump out the window. Somehow taking a serious journalistic approach to […]
