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I first became familiar with Sara Snow when I was pregnant and on bed-rest. Between reading baby books and eating I watched her Discovery show Get Fresh with Sara Snow and enjoyed her ease and playful approach to environmentalism. I love how Sara always mixes stories of her childhood into her day-to-day recipes for green [...]

Electric cars are the way of the future, but not many of us can afford a Tesla and we’re still waiting on that Chevy Volt. In the meantime, author Seth Leitman shows us how we can green up the cars we own right now and transform them from gas guzzlers to mean, green electric machines.
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Last month saw the release of a new book by author Queenelle Minet entitled In Memory of Central Park.  It is a futuristic story of New York City.  In the book, the city has seceded from the United States. Within this microcosm the author describes political, social, and environmental issues that mirror our own global [...]

If you are lucky enough to live in or around New York City, San Francisco or Los Angeles and are on the hunt for an all-natural hair salon, organic locavore restaurant, recycling center, green realtor, ecofashion boutique, or even, ahem, Earth-friendly burial services, the Greenopia guides are the one-stop guide to green businesses in your [...]

I am always on the lookout for good environmentally conscious children’s books. Telling the story of Knut the world’s famous baby polar bear, in their book by the same name (Scholastic 2007), Craig Hatkoff and his two daughters Isabella and Juliana paint the picture of one precious little creature who needed human help to survive. [...]

For anyone else who digs on books that examine how PR shapes public perception, Will Allen’s new book, The War on Bugs is the latest in a genre that includes The Best War Ever and Toxic Sludge is Good for You. Instead of the now-tired observation that much of our food supply harms our bodies [...]

On Earth Day (I know, I know, that was April, but better late than never), The San Francisco Chronicle compiled a list of environmental books to read. A few of the picks were what I’d consider greeny standard reading: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
It also included the new-to-me World [...]

You want to know what the latest green companies have up their sleeves? Well, there are two ways you can answer that question: Tune into Josh Dorfman’s radio show on Sirius Satellite Network, The Lazy Environmentalist OR pick up the book with the same cushy green title. Josh highlights the companies and brands that are [...]

My paternal grandmother, Leslie, called the West Indies home from 1948 until she died. We had a house in Antigua, with an open courtyard, that sat right on the beach. When I was little, in the seventies, and Leslie was dying, we spent time down there and I first met her dear friend Amos Morrill [...]

This afternoon I managed to catch MR2, the radio show of the Massachusetts Review, broadcast from WMUA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The guest was Dr. Lynn Margulis, there to talk about her latest book, Luminous Fish, just released from Vermont-based independent press Chelsea Green.
Margulis is best known for her theory of [...]