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TreeShagger: Do all green dating sites suck?
Computer love.Photo: Jeremy BrooksWelcome to TreeShagger, our new column on green dating. If you’ve got green dating questions, send ’em our way! The internet wants to help you find love. One in five newly committed couples met through a dating site, says Match.com [PDF] (and I’m sure they’re not biased). And Google ads recently volunteered […]
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Pre-Valentine’s live chat with Ask Umbra and TreeShagger
Even in French, they still taste like chalk. Photo: KatLevPhotoIn a live chat today, Grist’s Ask Umbra and TreeShagger answered all of your Valentine’s Day questions about sustainable love, dating, and (oh yeah!) sex. Did you miss the chat? Have no fear, dear, a replay is available below:
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TreeShagger: 15 places to meet a green hottie
If you want to pick up a climate hawk, you gotta learn to fly. (Or something.) Let me teach you where to find a suitable green lover.
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How to date a vegan
Vegans are an elusive breed known for their hotness and dexterity with soy. Want to get frisky with one? Here's how, in Grist's TreeShagger column.
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Ask Umbra gives relationship advice to a couple battling it out over 'eco-stress'
Ask Umbra gets personal and gives advice to a reader who has a “different level of commitment to sustainability” than her husband. What to do if you’re more eco-aware than the one you love? If you’re a lover and/or a fighter, read this!
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‘Love seats’ flirt with creating better bus times
Kadaver off the Record Copenhagen’s buses are introducing another way of getting around while you get around town: “love seats,” or “kærlighedssæder.” (Gesundheit!) A social experiment of Danish bus company, Arriva, these special spots aim to make things a little cozier for those would-be cuddlers who haven’t been feeling the love on public transit. “You […]
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Ask Umbra on dating, individual actions, and coffee stirrers
Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, I’m a single gal, living in Seattle, where one would think it might be easy to meet a socially and environmentally conscious, yet non-douchey fellow, but it’s actually really difficult to find any suitable guy to go out with. It’s like if I meet a dude who […]
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Money can’t buy YOU love — but it can buy the fossil fuel industry the GOP loves
Oil companies, electric utilities and the coal industry have poured more than $250,000 this year into the coffers of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s House fundraising arm that has played a lead role in attacking Democrats who supported climate legislation. All told, political action committees for various fossil fuel industries have given at […]
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Umbra on love
Dear Umbra, I long to have a partner join in (or be excited and supportive) when I participate in an environmental event, or write a well-researched and poignant letter about a pressing environmental issue. I have broken off three serious relationships in the past few years because I decided the men were not environmentally sensitive […]
