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Local Economy: Lost In Translation
Plato: Eco-Hunk When I was an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts, I wiggled into a two-semester Greek class at Smith College. Although I had [...]
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Sea of People Takes Lower Manhattan
by guest-blogger Olivia Zaleski Yesterday I went to my first global warming rally, which was part of the Step It Up 2007 campaign (check out [...]
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Augusta and Elliott
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 [...]
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E.O. Wilson Wins TED Prize
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 [...]
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Deep Economy: Q&A with Bill McKibben
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. [...]
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Luminous Fish
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 [...]
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The Good in Goodwill
One of the advantages of living in a city where the distribution of wealth is so disproportionate and patently unfair is that lots of rich [...]
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Bush Misses the Boat
By Guest-Blogger Brian Howard In his 2007 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush told Congress and the country that “nothing is more [...]
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Creative Reuse Centers— An Artist's Dream
As an artist, finding new places to obtain cheap and interesting materials is always a challenge. Fortunately creative reuse centers are a great way to [...]
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Green Building 101
This month’s WIRED and E/The Environmental Magazine both have great features on the many and varied ways of constructing an eco-home. E Magazine’s coverage focuses [...]
