Environment

Green living tips, the green movement, the environment, and the politics of sustainable living

 


Your dog or cat may be adorable, but pet ownership can have a sizable ecological paw print.

Who do people trust to give them accurate information about climate change? Often, it’s their local TV weathercaster. The problem is that many weathercasters are climate-change skeptics.

Kierán Suckling, one of the founders of the national environmental group the Center for Biological Diversity, doesn’t dance around the subject of legal action as the equivalent of a shock-and-awe offense.

How to explore a mountaintop removal site and survive.


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Localwashing: How corporate America is co-opting “local” 
This new variation on corporate greenwashing—localwashing—is, like the buy-local movement itself, most advanced in the context of food.

Simple Living for the Environment Is for Suckers
Hey, all you guilt-stricken liberals. Let the water run. Throw those recyclable milk jugs in the trash. And drive that 15-year-old gas-guzzling truck all over town.

Eating Locally in the Desert
You can’t grow crops in a desert, right? You can if you grow desert crops. Farmer Mark Moody of Arizona is staking out a local food niche by growing mesquite trees for flour. 

The Wild Green Blog

Introducing the Wild Green blog: Utne Reader senior editor Keith Goetzman on environmental issues from climate change to composting. Read more >> 

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This 163-page book ranks all model year 2003 cars and trucks according to environmental friendliness. Shoppers can compare cars, vans, pickups and SUVs.

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A well-organized, easy-to-understand review of renewable home-heating options that includes everything you need to know about passive and active solar systems, wood and pellet stoves, masonry heaters and air- and ground- source heat pumps.

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