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No, no. I’m not going to start questioning Starre’s seriousness about global warming - I think the picture is very cute. However, this video by Sarah Silverman is supposed to be humor about global warming. Maybe it’s because I don’t like Sarah Silverman, but I just don’t find the whole “global warming will be great [...]

I thought all you Eco Chicks should really check this Op/Ed from the NYTimes out in case you haven’t seen it….
December 22, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
And the Color of the Year Is …
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
I know that you should never generalize about global warming from your own weather, but as a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., [...]

While, admittedly, there was a brief time I smoked cigarettes regularly (hey, I was living in Spain, give me a break), I’ve always found it EXTREMELY maddening that not only do smokers foul the air, but they toss their butts all over the damn place. I live next to the Long Island Sound, and there’s [...]

Should women’s bodies be used to ’sell’ environmentalism? Lots of folks have been discussing the Ecobabes calendar lately, and though I think the photos in the calendar are pretty tasteful (as I think the picture above, of model Betcee May is), and I certainly believe in celebrating women in the environmental movement, there is something [...]

It’s often difficult to keep up with the Jonses on all this “Good Green Citizen” stuff. For the majority of us out there, we can’t possibly give all we got, but we can do things in our everyday life to make a difference. Where we are in our life, how old/young we are, where we [...]

Original illustration for Eco Chick by Gregory Grigoriou of I See Dots
The Problem 
This month, one of E/ The Environmental Magazine’s feature stories is about the the myth of the population dearth, the idea that we’re not replacing ourselves at quite the rate we have during the heights of human population growth, which occurred in the 1960’s. The doom and gloom [...]

This is my favorite season, a time of apple-picking, knit scarves and hats, pumpkin carving, colorful leaves and cool, sunny days. It’s my favorite shopping season, the best time to climb a mountain, and if you’re a little tough, you can still swim too (the water stays warmer longer than you’d think!) I feel transformed [...]

“I don’t understand about diamonds, and why men buy them. What’s so impressive about a diamonds except the mining?”
—Fiona Apple

Many of the prisoner-laborers who work Sierra Leone’s open-pit mines end up in shallow graves, executed for suspected theft, for lack of production, or simply for sport. (© Jean-Claude Coutausse/ CONTACT Press Images)
A few years ago, [...]