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Drink a Beer, Save the Earth

  Imagine hitting up the local pub, sipping your favorite microbrew, and unwinding after a long day. Now imagine that the people you’re drinking with aren’t coworkers but environmental activists and the overwhelming majority of conversation is centered around biodiesel, backyard gardens, and the only debate is whether wind or solar energy is more efficient.  This [...]

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A Lively Pair of Flip Flops

Walking through a plot of fresh grass in your bare feet feels glorious, right? But what if you could saw a patch of grass into your flip flops? Would you do it? I don’t think I would be game for such footwear, but apparently the creators over at Krispy Kreme – yes, the guys [...]

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A More Eco Exit: Green Funerals and Eco Burials

As we have become more aware of the impact that our living has on this planet, we also begin to recognize the effects of our dying. I came across this brief (and nostalgia-inducing) post about eco-burials and was inspired to contemplate the greening of our attitudes toward death. The traditional options: sealing yourself in an [...]

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Waste Not Food Not

My mom always saved her coffee grounds and eggshells. She would put them in a flowerpot until she finally got around to putting them in her flowerbeds. Her sunflowers and tomatoes were always healthy and beautiful. My mom knew about the strong nutrients in food scraps, but I always took it as a farmer’s trick. It [...]

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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

You’ve heard of the campfire rule, right? “Leave it better than you found it.” At the end of this month, Burning Man will be in its twenty-second year of cultural events, individual spiritualism, artistic movements and general festival debauchery. Afterwards, you won’t even know they were there. Located in the Black Rock Desert for one [...]

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Nights Under the Stars: Mount Rainier National Park

I wish I could say I climbed to the top of Mount Rainier- but I didn’t. I did however spend four days and three nights backpacking and experiencing this slice of Pacific Northwest scenery (which included the above photographed experience of watching the sunrise above the clouds!). When two friends from Seattle, Lauren and Lizzie, [...]

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