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Be a Cycle Hottie!

Be a Cycle Hottie!

Keeping warm in colder weather without looking like a North Face refugee We all know riding your bike instead of driving is not only eco-friendly, [...]

by × February 8, 2008 × 9 comments

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Cologne's New Smog Control

Cologne's New Smog Control

I live in a city with its own special breed of traffic jams – traffic that gets so snarled, it has its own label: stau. [...]

by × January 8, 2008 × 2 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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Eco Luxury Gift Ideas (and Bikes!) in Vogue

Eco Luxury Gift Ideas (and Bikes!) in Vogue

I was thrilled to see some seriously fun totally over-the-top delicious green stuff featured in Vogue’s December issue (it’s the one with the impossibly gorgeous [...]

by × December 4, 2007 × 3 comments

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Gotta Keep on Top of the Bills!

Yeesh! There’s a flurry of activity surrounding environmental issues in Congress and it’s all I can do to keep up! Here’s what’s going on: TOMORROW, [...]

by × October 30, 2007 × 0 comments

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Green for All

Green for All

I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about Van Jones and his Oakland-based campaign, Green For All, and I’ve got to say, I’m intrigued. Premised [...]

by × October 18, 2007 × 5 comments

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Mortgaging Planet Earth

Mortgaging Planet Earth

Whenever I start to feel a little cynical (depressed?) about being an environmentalist (i.e. whenever I get the urge to put on some snakeskin sneakers, [...]

by × September 27, 2007 × 4 comments

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How to Light Up Africa?

How to Light Up Africa?

In this image from the Smithsonian, you can see the lights of Europe at night, whereas most of Africa is dark. As an inveterate night [...]

by × September 4, 2007 × 5 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

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The Car-free Life in Paris

The Car-free Life in Paris

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the trend toward building entire subdivisions as car-free communities here in Germany; though these neighborhoods eschew cars and [...]

by × July 16, 2007 × 4 comments