Does Recycling Really Do Any Good?
The words "recycled" and "recyclable" often conjure up similar notions of relative greenness; the general idea is that, as long as you aren't pitching...
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Styrofoam Statue Of Liberty Draws Outrage From Environmentalists
Earthfirst | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green
Perhaps it's a fitting tribute to a country that wore the 'Biggest Polluter' crown for so long: a 130-foot, 50,000-lb replica of the Statue of Liberty...
Do Big Homes Mean Bigger Happiness?
Graham Hill | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green
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The funny thing is, while homes get bigger, and this McMansion trend swallows up neighborhoods and landmarks, families are actually getting smaller.
Why I Don't Flush
Graham Hill | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
There are now great composting and low-flow toilets out there, but just by flushing a little less often (number 1 only please!), the amount of water you can save is huge.
Life Cycle: All That's Fit to Print
Simran Sethi | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green
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OK, it's just newsprint. But we journalists tend to get excited about it. More than 50 million newspapers hit stands and porches every morning in this country (double that in China). A tree falls. Many trees, really--200 million per year, just for newspapers.
Three Green Decisions With Little or No Downside
Graham Hill | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green
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Who was the guy that said living eco means sacrifice? It's not about living in a cave and shaking your head at the 'modern day luxuries,' folks. Getti...
Lo-Tech Hi-Tech: The Simple Solutions All Around Us
Graham Hill | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
There are a lot of great low tech things around us that could help us reduce our impact. Take the bike, the sweater, and the awning, for example. Here are three pieces of "old" technology that are invisible to most of us despite their power.
Global Warming: How We Got Here and Why We Shouldn't Beat Ourselves Up About It
Graham Hill | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green
Before we can change, we need to understand where we went wrong. We need to see through our grandparents' lens first in order to toss it for the better, greener version.
Being Green is Not Easy... When I Forget
Graham Hill | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
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We live in a disposable culture, one that is built on convenience. You don't have to bring your own bag, because the bag is there. But it's these disposable items that are filling our landfills
Friday Talking Points [37] -- Welcome, New Readers
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.
Europeans Happier than Americans yet Half the Footprint
Graham Hill | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
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It seems that Europeans can live with smaller homes, less space, fewer and smaller cars, and less waste, yet still face the world grinning.
Corn Utensils Useless Without Major Composting Efforts
Los Angeles Times | Jenn Garbee | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green
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Now that you feel environmentally conscientious for having used a corn fork -- those forks made with corn starch that lately are the darlings of the t...
Life Cycle: The Beginning
Simran Sethi | Posted 06.16.2008 | Green
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To make real progress, we have to not only change our products and behaviors but gain real context for those changes, and real reverence for the incredible life cycles of the things we use.
Three Things I Could Live Without: The Bath Mat, the Paper Towel, and the Cocktail Napkin
Graham Hill | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green
When I buy something, I try to ask myself, do I really need this? Living in a minimal way doesn't have to be about sacrifice -- in fact, it can actually be liberating to remove the clutter around you. It can give you back cash, physical and mental space.
Raise the Price of Toys
Pamela Paul | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
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The average child in America gets seventy new toys a year, and the United States, with 4 percent of the world's children, consumes 40 percent of the world's toys. This is doing our children no good.
The Problem With Waste
Gary Hirshberg | Posted 01.16.2008 | Business
Lacking a coherent waste-management policy in this country, each company struggles to find a path for itself--or, too often, gives up entirely.
The U.S Department of Education: Awash in Earmarks
Gerald Bracey | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
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While tracking down some details of the Dept. of Education's Inspector General's investigation of the Reading First debacle, I happened also on to his inspection of its earmarks.
Bombarded with Catalogs? Choose to Cut the Waste
Daniel Katz | Posted 10.24.2007 | Living
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As a consumer myself, I don't begrudge anyone for making a purchase from a catalog, but as a lifelong conservationist, I do find the unnecessary waste hard to digest.
Open Letter to the Republican Senators: The Commission on Wartime Contracting Should be a Bipartisan Effort
Dina Rasor | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
The Congress as a whole is responsible for not putting in effective oversight to the money they spent on the troops. Why shouldn't that be a bipartisan concern to fix it?
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