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Dancing rocks. Great exercise for your body. Good for my soul. But Dance clubs are hardly the places I think of when I hear the term, “eco-friendly.” Blaring music, high tech effects, flashing lights - that’s gotta add up to a (great time but) huge carbon footprint, right?
Not necessarily.
Clubs in London and San Francisco are […]
Today the New York Times reported that United States Sugar, the nation’s largest sugarcane producer, has agreed to sell 187,000 acres north of Everglades National Park to the state of Florida for $1.75 billion.
This news is so good in so many ways.
The Everglades have long been considered America’s most endangered national park because decades of […]
The Governator has been busy.
Last week, former movie star and current California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger officially declared that his state was in a drought and threatened to ration water to cities if conservation efforts were not increased. The New York Times reported:
The declaration comes after the driest California spring in 88 years, with runoff in […]
These days, everybody is going green, including those folks that have more press than others. You know, the famous people. You love to love them, hate them, ogle them.
Who doesn’t peruse the People Magazine while waiting in line at the grocery checkout? Who doesn’t pick up an Us Magazine or its ilk when waiting to […]
Sometimes I wonder if the value of a news story can be measured by the amount of comments it receives online. Or if the opposite is the case. Take a recent article in the LA Times entitled, Obesity as a Cause of Global Warming.
Times Health writer Rosie Mestel reports that,
in a letter published Friday in […]
If you’ve never paid a visit to b5’s technology channel, today would be a great day to do it. Green Day is the theme of their theme day and just look at the sites that Hilary from Eco-Friendly Driver has pulled together for you!
There’s been a huge surge in the last few years toward living […]
Last week, I shared with you one writer’s ecophobia, a condition where he sees environmentalists as not only reveling in, but as the cause behind natural disasters. Now Fox News is highlighting a new term: Eco-Anxiety.
Fox recently interviewed Sarah Edwards, a woman dealing from Eco-Anxiety, which is
the growing angst experienced by those who can’t handle […]
The New York Times reports that thousands of people are being evacuated from the area south of Santiago, Chile as the Chaiten volcano, dormant for two thousand years, is beginning to spew ash. Even if the activity stops here, the environmental and agricultural impact will be significant:
About 25,000 head of cattle and sheep are at […]
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