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Ed Helms Talks Blacking Out Trying To Help An Injured Friend On 'Late Show' (VIDEO) - Ed Helms thought he was going to be akin to Superman when faced with a crisis situation. But when faced with a real emergency, he proved to be quite the ...
58 minutes ago
The Environmental Blog

The Human Body: The Next Energy Factory - Attempts have been made to calculate the economical value of the raw materials of the human body (which is about $1985.77, according to the last count). Bu...
1 hour ago
Great Lakes Echo

Chicago teams to play green games in April - When players hit the ice or the court, arenas buzz with electricity. Hot dog machines, enormous flat screens and thousands of light bulbs suck off the grid...
3 hours ago
Mother Nature Network

Move it! Boost creativity with physical change - Researchers suggest we get 'out of the box' - literally.
11 hours ago
Green For All Blog

Green is the New Black - Howard University held a Green Opportunities symposium on Thursday February 23rd titled, "Green is the New Black".
11 hours ago
GOOD

From Terminator to Pollinator: Bees Go Robotic - Robotics engineers are buzzing about a machine with potentially transformative implications for agriculture, surveillance, and mapping: the "robobee." R...
13 hours ago
Dot Earth

Why We Often Worry Too Much, and Sometimes Not Enough - A look at the fear factors that cause humans to overreact to some risks and miss others.
15 hours ago
Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op

Worm Farm Workshop - Written by Gavin, from The Greening of Gavin This is a repost of an article that I wrote only a few hours ago for my main blog, and thought it worthy of a r...
18 hours ago
Detroit, je t'aime

Detroit finally revealed? A photography exhibit at the DIA - A blog post by Emily Biegas. The first image I saw upon entering the Detroit Revealed exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts this past Friday was a print...
19 hours ago
New. Clear. Vision.

Up in Arms - Taking Responsibility for the Violence by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I have to admit that I was not paying much attention to the bombardment of the city ...
22 hours ago
MY ZERO WASTE

One Man’s trash - Mr Green burns a hotel
1 day ago
DetroitUnspun - The Detroit Regional News Hub

Karen Majewski on Hamtramck, identity, and Polish heritage - Tweet Here’s a different side of a politician. Karen Majewski, mayor of Hamtramck, takes us through reconnecting with her Polish roots and how it landed he...
1 day ago
Great Lakes Guru

Michigan Top 40, Day 6 | The Water of Pure Michigan -
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My Plastic-Free Life

Lessons from The Lorax: Why Nagging Doesn’t Work - Hey kids. Don’t be like the Lorax. He’s a bad example. I should know. I used to be like him, and I still am sometimes. I’ll explain what I mean, but f...
3 days ago
The PeaceWorker

The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran - DAVID SWANSON - 1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that's a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
4 days ago
little house on the urban prairie

may the growing season begin! - we have been busy in the hoop house, harvesting lots greens and pulling up all the crops we planted in the fall to make way for spring plantings. lettuce,...
1 week ago
poetry & tsismis: emily's blog

LOVE POEM: Powerful Scent of Sampaguita - * Over the years, I have written several poems about the Philippine national flower, the Sampaguita, which is a hardy type of Jasmine/Pikake that I love t...
1 week ago
Eat Breathe Blog

Fitness Swimming Tips - Swimming is an excellent exercise that benefits the whole body, and helps maintain an ideal body weight as well as improve overall fitness. Swimming is a c...
2 weeks ago
communicatinginthed

Using Media to (Re) Claim The Hood - Detroit Future Schools teacher, Danielle Filipiak wrote up an excellent essay on the work she’s been doing in her classroom with her DFS’s artist. I especi...
2 weeks ago
this lively earth

Journey toward a book title - “So how do you feel today?” Tim asked me. “Spacious!” I said. “There’s so much room!” It was quite a change from the day before—actually, from the whole mo...
2 weeks ago
Earthseed Detroit

Calling all Catalogs! Stopping mail order madness! - This Saturday finds me addressing what has been a serious problem: Mail Clutter!! I have a nice little desk built into the kitchen but it was hidden bene...
3 weeks ago
Movement Generation

Native Americans Applaud President Obama’s decision rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline. Obama acknowledges his commitment to Native Americans to listen to their concerns - Congratulations to the Indigenous Environmental Network and other communities and organizations for their victory in stopping the construction of the Keyst...
4 weeks ago
No Impact Man

NASA says 2011 is the ninth warmest year on record - Why were we born? What is really important in life? Are we living in line with that? Or are we distracted from the point of our existence? Is there a way t...
5 weeks ago
Environmental & Food Justice

FOOD FIGHTS: Hunger Politics and Struggles for Autonomy & Resilience, Part II - *Moderator's Note:* With this guest essay we post the second in a new series on *FOOD FIGHTS: Hunger Politics and Struggles for Autonomy and Resilience*...
1 month ago
Dirt Worship

Travels and Occupies - But even more than troubles with the cops and city authorities, the biggest challenges the Occupy movement faces seem to be internal. How do we make decisi...
1 month ago
Munching in the Mitten

The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap - Alternate Titles: *The Day I Ate Seven Cookies*, or *The Week Cookies Became a Diet Staple.* Over the past few weeks I have been participating in The Great...
2 months ago
Grist

How to feed 7 billion of us without ruining the planet - Now that we’re surrounded by 7 billion of our closest friends, it’s probably a good time to talk about how we’re going to feed them. The government, along ...
3 months ago
Just Education?

Green Job Creation: The power lies with the people - I love Ahmina - and I think you all should too! Here is her great piece from Green For All reposted: http://www.greenforall.org/blog/green-job-creation-the...
6 months ago
Enough

Enough: The Book! (call for submissions) - Okay, people, get ready: we are making Enough into a book! We’re looking for lots of new essays, so please get in touch if you are interested in submitting...
7 months ago
100 Days Without Oil

MN MONTHLY - 13 April, 2011 The May issue of Minnesota Monthly just came out and has a 2-page article featuring my project! Thanks to Ellen Burkhardt for a well-done s...
10 months ago
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EJ Matters for Climate Change

Just Putting a Price on Carbon Isn't Enough - Angela Johnson Meszaros Director of Policy and General Counsel California Environmental Rights Alliance angelajm [at] envirorights.org This week, the CBO re...
3 years ago

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