Blog Entries by Elizabeth Royte
Tap Water's Dirty Little Secret
It's easy to be disdainful of bottled water if you've got no problem with tap. I live in a city with excellent municipal water. I've got lead-free pipes, a nice reusable bottle (which I almost always remember to bring with me), and I have no qualms about refilling it from...
If You Really Want to Stop Global Warming...
Posted May 29, 2007 | 12:31 PM (EST)
Last week I got an e-mail from Laurie David, of StopGlobalWarming.org, that announced two new partnerships. The first came as an "action tip," which told me I could reduce my junk mail for five years by sending 41 bucks to a group called 41 Pounds, which would then funnel...
The Compost Revolution
Posted April 21, 2007 | 12:26 PM (EST)
You don't drive or fly much, you heat your home with renewable energy, eat meat rarely and already changed every light bulb you reasonably could. Your carbon footprint is admirably faint, but have you looked into your kitchen trashcan lately?
In the United States, food scraps account for 12 percent...
Why The Bag Backlash?
Posted April 18, 2007 | 04:30 PM (EST)
When I was asked to speak at something called BagFest at Indiana University South Bend, last week, I was initially skeptical. Why did we need a festival to collect bags for recycling, and what good did recycling them do, in the larger scheme of troubling environmental problems? But when...
Watch Obama's speech. Scroll down for report of convention and full text...
***UPDATE: Round 4 and more*** Round 3 of MSNBC infighting...
Barack Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton responds to John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor...
My favorite part of Hillary Clinton's speech last night was when she admonished her followers not to...
I think we will look back at today as the day when...
Hillary Clinton's job, we were told, was to unite her supporters behind Barack Obama.
Reporters have frequently commented on the degeneration of John McCain's "Straight Talk Express"...
MSNBC problems seem to be everywhere, with a truckload of stories, infighting caught on tape, and bad...
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's a quick rundown of her resumé: she's the former...
LOS ANGELES — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication,"...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Citigroup Inc. isn't just eliminating jobs to slash costs --...
Grist reports that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin strongly opposes the Alaskan gas tax, threw money at...
Talk show host Charlie Rose stopped by the Huffington Post...
Posted August 18, 2008 | 12:33 PM (EST)