“Powder snow skiing is not fun. It’s life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality.” —Dolores LaChapelle
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately… and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” —Henry David Thoreau
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.” —John Muir
The Other Side: A response to “Is the Tourist Footprint Ever a Good One?” by Jayme Otto.
Modern intensive agricultural methods have stripped increasing amounts of nutrients from the soil in which the food we eat grows.
The nonprofit group Beyond Pesticides warns that some 60 percent of pesticides used today have been shown to affect the thyroid gland’s production of T3 and T4 hormones. Commercially available insecticides and fungicides have also been implicated. Women are most at risk.
First utilized by relief and aid missions around the world to house workers or refugees, self-contained modular homes that can be partially or even fully fabricated in advance are now all the rage among green architects and those committed to more sustainable living.
I’ve heard of global warming, of course, but what on Earth is “global dimming?”
I know that some people abstain from meat on Fridays for religious reasons, but what’s the story behind “Meatless Mondays?”
Merino wool undergarments tout themselves as being kinder to the environment than other wools or synthetics. How is this so?
What is “BPA” used in plastics, and why should I worry about it? Are there certain household items or food containers to avoid because of BPA?
How long does it take a plastic grocery bag to decompose? Or can it decompose at all?
Since the April 20th explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, it’s been pretty much impossible to hear “oil” and “Gulf Coast” in the same sentence without also hearing “total decimation.” Heading to the beach after exposure like that would be sort of like packing up for a forest getaway in the wake of a conflagration.
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