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NY Times Covers Vegan Fashion

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by Summer Rayne Oakes · 01/11/07

The NY Times has a nice highlight of vegan fashion at NYC’s Organic Avenue and Kaight boutiques. Check it out here.

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Global Warming is Bad, but Wal-Mart is Good

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by Starre Vartan · 12/22/06

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., it’s hard not to, considering that it’s been so balmy this winter season I’m half expecting the cherry blossoms to come out for Christmas. In fact, my wife was rummaging through her closet the other day and emerged to tell me she needed a whole new wardrobe — “a global warming wardrobe,” clothes that are summer weight but winter colors.

For this, and other reasons, had I been editing Time magazine I would not have opted for the “you” in YouTube as Person of the Year — although that was very clever. No, I’d have run an all-green Time cover under the headline, “Color of the Year.” Because I think that the most important thing to happen this past year was that living and thinking “green” — that is, mobilizing for the environmental/energy challenge we now face — hit Main Street.

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The Hand that Rocks the Gorilla's Cradle

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by Danelle Brown · 12/22/06

When do we humans go too far? Today it was reported that an experiment was conducted and concluded in which a southwest England zoo had given fertility drugs to a western lowland gorilla. I find myself asking the question, why should people be allowed to give animals fertility drugs? If it is the point as to be a resolution for a dwindling species, then I feel that we should concentrate on the conservation of gorilla’s and any other endangered species’ ecosystem.

How is this a positive achievement? To me it appears as both a cover up generated by the guilt of being an extended cause to gorilla’s captivity as well as a disturbing desire to have control over all of nature. Nature works in her own way. Maybe there is a reason why older gorillas aren’t meant to have more babies, maybe it is the same reason why an average 50+ year old human is not naturally suppose to conceive a child.

If they do replicate this procedure, as they as hope to do around the world, where are all of the new born Gorilla’s suppose to go? Is it fair that they most likely will be raised in captivity? Would we inject women in shelters with hormone therapy so that they can have a child all the while where they don’t have their own home to go to? What’s your take?

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The Boston "Green" Party

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by Danelle Brown · 12/20/06

The City of Boston has announced its respected plans to revise its existing building code and make it a mandatory practice that all of the city’s private, large scale construction of at least 50,000 sq ft be “green”. All of these buildings are to adhere to the minimum LEED rating requirements, in addition to 4 standards created by the city. Approvals for the new plan are being conducted this week with the final approvals being conducted by the Zoning Commission on January 10^th. Let the accolades begin.

I just saw briefly last night on the evening news a segment high lighting the several American states who are taking environmental matters into their own hands. The anchor implied that these intelligent cities are not going to wait for the federal government to take a stand for the state of the environment and energy conservation.

 “ Boston is growing, and this amendment helps us grow our sustainable green buildings, which are good for public health and air quality. We’re doing what we should be doing, moving toward better environmental quality. We’re thinking about the future.”

Mayor Thomas M. Menino

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Evergreen Makes a Difference

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by Danelle Brown · 12/11/06

Evergreen State College in Olympia , WA has taken on the rarely addressed issue of college students with mental disorders. Their facility and program emphasizes another aspect of the importance of a clean and healthy environment. We are all greatly affected by our environment and when one is hyper sensitive to their surroundings, a clean and pleasant environment is keen.

The nontraditional college has approximately 4400 students. In addition to a well crafted educational program, the campus has its own organic farm which helps to eliminate not only toxins from the student body’s diet, but also ease the minds of those with compulsive disorders. The on site composting program promotes social interaction and allows the students to help make a difference in their community. Based upon the article in the NYT, it seems that this campus may be eligible for LEED certification since they have integrated a waste management program and provide space and monitor carpoolers and bicycle commuters.

Parents of the students say that they have seen positive results by sending their children to the college as compared to the other colleges. Thankfully, there is more of a tendency for existing schools and new schools to implement an environmentally friendly campus. LEED is making a new rating system specifically for schools

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