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Nature Kids, Hot Water Woes, and Pellet Stoves

Nature Kids, Hot Water Woes, and Pellet Stoves

I want my child to connect with nature, but how can a suburban park be designed to both protect visitors from Lyme disease–carrying ticks and [...]

by × February 1, 2008 × 7 comments

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Infanticide and Vera's Cub: Why Some Mothers Eat Their Young

Post copied from Living Now section of the Huffington Post. I want this baby polar bear! Well, on second thought, I want this baby polar [...]

by × January 14, 2008 × 3 comments

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Roam If You Want To (But Not if You're a Bear)

Roam If You Want To (But Not if You're a Bear)

This map, scanned from Patagonia’s latest catalog, details a grizzly’s 50-mile journey, which in the world of a bear, isn’t even really that far of [...]

by × January 8, 2008 × 3 comments

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Smartest Car; Still Worse Than The Dumbest Bike

Smartest Car; Still Worse Than The Dumbest Bike

The process of buying and making new cars isn’t the solution to this enormous fossil fuel problem we’re having. Hackneyed as it might seem, we [...]

by × December 30, 2007 × 8 comments

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Green Gifts for All the Lovable Weirdoes in Your Life

Green Gifts for All the Lovable Weirdoes in Your Life

You know those lists of gifts everyone has now? They’re killing me. So I had to make my own because my friends and family are [...]

by × December 7, 2007 × 2 comments

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Don't Be A Turkey: Get Your Thanksgiving Feast Green

Don't Be A Turkey: Get Your Thanksgiving Feast Green

Originally posted on The Huffington Post on November 14th, 2007 Photo from Channel14.com. In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians stuffed their faces [...]

by × November 18, 2007 × 5 comments

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Green Guru: Environmental Costs of Dried Fruit, Battery-Powered Mowers, and Red #40 on Hummers

Green Guru: Environmental Costs of Dried Fruit, Battery-Powered Mowers, and Red #40 on Hummers

Since I write this column for Audubon Magazine, I thought I would share my (laboriously researched) advice with Eco Chick readers. In considering the hidden [...]

by × November 15, 2007 × 1 comment

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Swimming With Dolphins: The Reality

This video shows what goes on in the dolphin hunts and includes Hayden Panettiere (of the TV show ‘Heroes’) and a team of surfers who [...]

by × November 6, 2007 × 5 comments

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How to Score an Eco Chick?

How to Score an Eco Chick?

Mr. EcoGeek himself (aka Hank Green) put together this hilarious piece on how to impress (read: seduce) a green girl with your enviro cred. Title: [...]

by × October 11, 2007 × 19 comments

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“We want to protect our lands, but we also need to awaken the people in The North. You are living in a dream, what you are doing is destroying the Earth.”

“We want to protect our lands, but we also need to awaken the people in The North. You are living in a dream, what you are doing is destroying the Earth.”

Talk about an Amazon woman! Anthropologist Zoe Tryon is working with the Achuar people of the Ecuadorian rainforest to help both protect their culture from [...]

by × August 26, 2007 × 0 comments