Elizabeth Kolbert

Is There Any Rational Reason To Have Children?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.02.2012

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Lisa Belkin

...moral tests imply logic, and we are outside that realm when we are talking about...Love...Faith...Children. Would these exist if rationality were the test?

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Now Zad: Are Afghans Happier Than Americans?

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan Civilians, Elizabeth Kolbert, Michael Buonocore, The New Yorker, Now Zad, Happiness, World News
Nick Mills

Are Afghans happier than Americans? Would you be happy if your native land had been torn to bits by warfare for thirty years? And yet...

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Best Environmental Journalism of 2009

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Dodd

Major news organizations are cutting science reporters, stoking fears that important journalism on environmental issues is in danger of drying up.

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Colin and Michelle's Excellent Adventure

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Kolbert, Colin Beavan, Sustainability, No Impact Man, Bill Mckibben, Colbert Report, Low-Impact Living, Michelle Conlin, Green News
Kerry Trueman

What's wrong with wanting to make a living speaking and writing about environmental issues? Colin Beavan's never claimed to be an expert, simply a layperson who wanted to enlighten himself and others.

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Farewell to Van Jones and His Green Jobs Agenda

Blaise Zerega | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blaise Zerega

Saturday night's surprising resignation of Van Jones and the controversy leading up to to it reveals all that is good and great about our political system. It also reveals all that is bad and sad about it.

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A Stunt Or Not A Stunt? That Is NOT The Question

Colin Beavan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorker, Envirnomentalists, Green Living, Elizabeth Kolbert, No Impact Man, Elizabeth Kolbert No Impact Man, Green Experiments, Green News
Colin Beavan

Elizabeth Kolbert's using four pages to attack her fellow environmental writers is four pages less that she could have used to convince the public of the dangers of continuing to burn fossil fuel and that we could have a better way of life without it.

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On the Impact of Personal Eco-Behavior

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Kolbert, Recycling, Social Change, No Impact Man, Green Living, Vegetarianism, Fuel Efficiency, Organic Food, Green News
David Roberts

American people are deeply confused about how to reduce their impact, even if they wanted to. I cringe every time I see someone on TV going on about unplugging power strips.

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New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert Slams US CAP for "Donating to Deniers"

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Spin, Kevin Grandia, Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert, Environment, US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), US, Global Warming, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the 2006 global warming book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, has a piece in the New Yorker today titled "Donating to the ...

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Elizabeth Kolbert Reports On The Dire Consequences Of Climate Change

GOOD Magazine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Giving Life, Climate Change, Climate Change Consequences, Elizabeth Kolbert, Climate, Global Warming, Healthy Living News
GOOD Magazine

Words By Catharine Livingston Photo By Livia Corona For journalists, the rule is simple: Tell the untold story. Which is why, shortly after the Uni...

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