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Is the Media Finally Getting the Link Between Climate Change and Disasters?
By Bob Keefe for NRDC The media just mightbe starting to see the obvious link between climate change and extreme weather. Of course it’s hard to miss during a week or so when we have deluges in Florida, wildfires in Colorado and deadly freak storms in Washington D.C. and elsewhere along the Eastern Seaboard the [...]
Read MorePlanning a Green Vacation
By Rachel Bertsche for Green Goes Simple I recently returned from a week-long honeymoon. Aside from being in awe of Croatia’s breathtaking scenery, delicious wine and fabulous seafood, I was struck by the little steps my hotel took to be greener. We had to use our key to turn the lights on in our room, [...]
Read MoreNearly 80% of Americans Believe News Coverage of the Environment Should Be Improved
A new poll found that 79% of Americans believe news coverage of the environment should be improved. The national poll was commissioned by the Project for Improved Environmental Coverage and conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation. The results of the poll confirm that regardless of age, race, income or region of the country, an overwhelming [...]
Read MoreFive Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Connect Kids with Nature – In Your Own Back Yard
Many adults recall childhood summers of sunburned faces, grass-stained jeans and dirty fingernails. But kids today have become so immersed in electronic media that a fishing pole is now a Wii controller, Dora is the only one exploring, and digging in the dirt—well, there’s an app for that. “We are on a mission to bring [...]
Read MorePlastic-Eating Fungi Found in the Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem
A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR). As part of the university’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory educational program, designed to engage undergraduate students in discovery-based research, the group searched for plants and cultured the micro-organisms [...]
Read MoreWhy You Don’t Need To Shower (Every Day)
Ninety-three percent of the people reading this have washed their hair in the past 24 hours. According to the New York Times, that number might be about to drop. In a recent article, Times reporter Catherine St. Louis profiles a variety of people–including a paralegal, a salesman, an actor and the owner of a skin-care [...]
Read More10 Ways to Green Your Summer Vacation
10 WAYS TO GREEN YOUR SUMMER VACATION THAT WILL LEAVE YOU FEELING LIKE A KID AGAIN Who doesn’t love summer? Long days filled with sunshine, fragrant flowers and the harmonious sounds of birds singing from sun rise to night fall right? Oh who am I kidding? Summer is here and the kids are out of [...]
Read MoreSmartest Green Vacation Destinations for Your Dollar
Smartest Green Vacation Destinations for Your Dollar June 12, 2011 by Irene Lane Some travellers mistakenly think that it is more expensive to travel abroad than vacation in the United States. People often hear about the relative weakness of the U.S. dollar and automatically calculate that a trip overseas will break their vacation budget. But, [...]
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