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Discuss amongst yourselves
This is heartening: the activist netroots are starting to get serious about figuring out global warming policy. Welcome to the fun, y’all! Stoller comes to a familiar conclusion: carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade. I think he’s a little hard on the latter, but the basic position is sound — and all but […]
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Can a mother survive without antibacterial wipes?
A few Sundays back, the newspaper seemed to spill an overwhelming number of cleaning-product coupons onto my living-room floor.
"It's like They know," my husband said. "They're on to you."
"They" are the companies selling household liquids and powders for a little spring cleaning. And the secret my husband thought they'd discovered? I had decided to purge my pine-fresh scents and 99.9 percent germ killers in favor of a few products our "great-grandparents used," as advised by green-parenting maverick MaGreen.
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Travel to exotic lands …
During Vietnam we used to say that "fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" (OK, not exactly, but you get the point). I had a flashback of that today here at Gristmill.
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Unwanted babies: the worst kind of emissions
We get the whole energy-wasting phone charger thing, and we think free Ben & Jerry’s sounds awesome, but is Unpluggit advocating unprotected sex in their online video? (h/t: reader MB)
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Bike racks in rain, smokers under cover
I am pissed. I just learned that my county would rather provide shelter from the weather for its employees who smoke (and drive up healthcare costs) than let those citizen-terrorists on bikes park out of the rain near the county building.
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Biofuels scam at 12 o’clock high!
Is there anything that the rich and venal won't do to stave off limits on jet flights? The new scam is a discussion of laundering the fossil fuels through "biofuels" ...
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Umbra on gifts for your school
Hi Umbra, I’m the senior president for my high school class. My cabinet and I want to leave a “green” gift to the school. We would like it to be something that is on campus or easily visible. Can you recommend anything in the $10,000 to $15,000 price range or below? I go to a […]
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Videoz
The adventures of Keep America Beautiful Man! Episode 1: Episode 2: Episode 3: (h/t: Hugg)
