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• Budget Baby: 10 More Ways to Live Green for Less

  These days, it's relatively easy to believe that unless we're riding in a Green Peace boat against the whalers, or eschewing our beloved vehicles for bikes or public transportation, we're personally responsible for drowning all the polar bears with our globally warming ways. The other week, we reviewed 10 ways to live green for less, endeavoring to make living green seem less perfect, less intimidating, and less expensive. Here are 10 more methods of accomplishing both savings and relief from eco-guilt: Read More... Posted Jul 29 2008, 11:29 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: global warming, gas prices, polar bears, budget baby, environmental consciousness, the economy, living green for less, driving cars, weather changes, live green

• Is Mother Earth Pro-Choice?

  People rarely link sex to global warming. But any activity that occurs 215 million times a day is bound to affect global health. And it’s high time we started talking about it, according to environmentalist and author Robert Engleman, who has a new book called More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want. In an interview with Reuters, Engleman discussed the delicacy of bringing this issue into mainstream dialogue: “[E]ven to bring it up, as an issue, it sounds as though you are telling other people how many children to have, and that is unforgivable as reproduction and having children is so sensitive and so personal.” Read More... Posted Jul 04 2008, 10:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: contraception, environment, condoms, reproductive freedom, birth rate, nature, climate change, global warming, overpopulation, pro-life, access to reproductive health care, and what women want, more: population, reproductive heath care, population control, save the planet, robert engleman

• Save the Planet; Strangle a Soccer Mom

  Thank Gaia that biologist EO Wilson knows who is to blame for the decrease in biodiversity of species. No, it isn't the destruction of habitats or the introduction of foreign chemicals. No, the answer is much more clear-cut.   Read More... Posted Apr 02 2008, 11:00 AM by Adrienne Martini with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: diversity, science, Soccer Moms, global warming, species die-off

• Book of the Week: Knut

  Life was rough at Zoo Berlin for the two polar bear cubs born on December 5, 2006. Little Knut (pronounced K’-noot) and his brother were rejected by their mother and tragically the other cub died on day four. Enter Thomas Dörflein, the zookeeper that stayed with Knut around the clock and just like any new parent, made sure feedings and cuddling were frequent.   Knut quickly captured the world’s attention as the cute and furry face of global warming and extinction, so naturally the precocious six-year-old author of New York Times bestseller, Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship jumped on the story. Isabella Hatkoff (now nine) and her older sister Juliana penned this tale of environmental responsibility with their father and Dr. Gerald R. Uhlich of Zoo Berlin.   Thanks to Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World and those tragic broadcasts of polar bears eternally swimming. . . Read More... Posted Mar 28 2008, 10:30 AM by editors with | with no comments Filed under: germany, global warming, book of the week, knut, environmental responsibility, extinct, Isabella Hatkoff, Zoo Berlin, polar bear

• What Colbert Report Writers Are Doing During the Strike

  Kids! Are your peers pressuring you about reducing your carbon footprint? Do they mock your parents' SUV? Do the lunch ladies make you recycle your soda cans and take just one napkin? Pen an essay or a short video about the pain the "Greenies" have inflicted upon your conservative soul and win up to $200! Think of how many barrels of oil you could buy with that! Plus, your work will be published in an actual book made from tree corpses!   Read More... Posted Feb 01 2008, 01:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: kids activities, global warming, junk science, Greenies, liberal conspiracy

• Strollerderby Playdate: Crunchy kids and eco-fams

  There's a lot of talk about carbon footprints and bicycling on the internets these days, friends, and if you're not busy changing your lightbulbs and cranking up the hybrid car (that's how they work, right?), well...then you should at least be reading blog posts about people who are loving up the Earth from inside their homes (that's your cue to turn down the AC, lovies). This week, these bloggers make me feel like natural living:There's a lot of talk about carbon footprints and bicycling on the internets these days, friends, and if you're not busy changing your lightbulbs and cranking up the hybrid car (that's how they work, right?), well...then you should at least be reading blog posts about people who are loving up the Earth from inside their homes (that's your cue to turn down the AC, lovies). This week, these bloggers make me feel like natural living: Read More... Posted Aug 14 2007, 07:02 AM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: recycling, eco-friendly, magpie musing, eco-street, urban mamas, cafemama, mom go green, who's the boss, global warming