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The latest Vogue (May, with the ever-princessey- in a good way- Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover) has a great piece entitled, “Spring Awakening” wherein writer Ginny Graves does some great round-up reporting regarding the causes of allergies and what the heck to do about them. It’s not online yet, but I excerpted below.
While I’ve [...]

Go check it out! I’m the guest-blogger for Elle Magazine’s annual Green issue (on newsstands the month of April)! I’ll be reposting some of my pieces here, but for more- plus all the behind the scenes reports from their other bloggers, go to the Elle Tell All blog.
Besides the blog, their online content is [...]

This isn’t put together by a nonprofit, or anyone trying to sell anything, it’s just some guy trying to get folks to plant a damn tree (or 2). And like any modern squirrel, he has a blog! All things tree-centric are covered, including tree sculpture, a tree of the week and a tree-planting tips!
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For Long-Time Readers of Eco Chick, The Good News Bears Are Back!
There’s a bevy of great green news I want to share with you all in case you hadn’t seen it:

Hummer Goes Under….Eventually
HummerGuy.net has been informed by official sources that there will be no “next generation” refresh on the H2 and that within a few [...]

This image of razed rainforest in Brazil’s Mato Grasso that’s now planted with soybeans (from which to make fuel) is my definition of a travesty. That’s a bit of transitional forest in the foreground, nature hemmed into a tidy square so the developer can claim ‘conservation’ not doubt.
Time Magazine’s cover story, “The Clean Energy [...]

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 [...]

This is from a few weeks ago. Live TV is tough…I had so much more to talk about!

An enviro-moralism, substantiated by the current sense of ecological responsibility, has permeated modern discourse. Al Gore said, “this is not a political issue… it is a moral one.” One is judged by their use of plastic bags, their vehicle, their light bulbs - their consumption. The idealism has become dogmatized, which in turn allows for [...]

I’m loving this ad….for anyone needing motivation to change their conventional bulbs to compact fluorescents (or better yet, LEDs).

Via: Snarfd

Several of my friends have had babies in the last few years, and some are on their second round already. Though it seems to me that there are far too many people on the planet already, it’s difficult to begrudge anyone the basic human drive to reproduce, and my friends’ kids ARE ridiculously cute. I’m [...]