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Us Eco Chicks love E.O. Wilson; his books include Biophelia, The Future of Life, and his latest, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, are masterworks of nonfiction writing about the environment and our place in it.
Each year, the TED Prize is granted to three individuals with the
talent to change the world. [...]

When Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, it was the first popular press book to address global warming in a meaningful way. Since then, McKibben has not only carved out a career as an environmental journalist; he has become one of the most steadfast and [...]

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 [...]

My friend, Jennifer Margulis, just covered this story about giraffes in Niger for The Christian Science Monitor. Another friend of mine recently returned from Peace Corps service in Cameroon and reported some similar things–people there told her that twenty years ago there were giraffes and elephants roaming through the village, but that they’ve now [...]

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., [...]

I just finished reading newly released The Complete Organic Pregnancy (Harper Collins) by Deirdre Dolan and Alexander Zissu and loved it. Since I am currently nineteen weeks pregnant, I have been soaking up a lot of information lately on all things revolving around pregnancy, babies, and organics. There are plenty of baby and pregnancy books [...]

Laurie David is promoting her new book which comes out this month, called Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You– An Activist’s Guide.
I’m setting up an interview with her and I would love to ask her questions from Eco Chick readers. What question do you have for the doyenne of Stop Global Warming?