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First, it was the (very publicly) waxed chest of Harrison Ford, now, pro beach volleyball player Colleen Smith will sport a huge (1/2 meter long) temporary tattoo of crashing waves to raise awareness of rising sea levels due to global warming. Colleen says, “Educating volleyball fans is huge. This is where I have leverage.” In […]
I can’t believe my parents didn’t call me about this one.
I’m not an Oprah fan, but don’t you dare try to pull mom or dad away from their TV at 4 p.m. on any given weekday. They love the Oprah. But they neglected to tell me that in an effort to eat “more consciously” […]
Memorial Day is just around the corner! I love a long weekend, but probably won’t be traveling for this one. Simply because we are usually entertained by the riverside arts fest that takes place right outside our windows on this particular holiday.
But most of America will be going somewhere. And odds are this year’s Memorial […]
Happy Birthday, John Muir, preservationist, founder of The Sierra Club, granddaddy of the environmental movement.
What I love about Muir, besides the fact that he helped preserve the beautiful Yosemite Valley and has influenced generations with his essays and efforts, is that when I walked into his house a few years ago, he had the same […]
Carbon Rally is a social networking site that rallies communities together to take action to reduce their CO2 emissions.
Teams compete against each other with challenges like “go one week without using any disposable coffee cups” or “unplug your computer every night for one month”. By accepting challenges and incorporating carbon reducing ideas into their daily […]
Want to make Mother Nature mad? Cut down 100,000,000 trees, use 28 billion gallons of water, spew out CO2 to drive it around and then send it all to a landfill. If I were junk mail, I’d be shaking in my envelope.
Production of junk mail consumes natural resources and energy to make the annoying, unsolicited, […]
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