Archive for July, 2009

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 127.

“On the road again…” I am on my way back to my house in New Mexico, so while I keep on trucking, here are the Quick Green Reads for this weekend… Boredom, it seems, has become a 4-letter word in many households with children. Apparently, boredom in children is a fate that many fear more [...]

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Eco-Friendly Alternatives To Bleach.

By now I am sure that most of you know that bleach is incredibly toxic to both you and the environment around you. As I have mentioned before, chlorine bleach releases dioxin, furans and other organochlorines into the air, can cause sore throats, coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs and studies have [...]

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How To Deal With Bugs…Organically, Of Course!

Today’s post is by my friend John Hamilton Farr, who blogs at FarrFeed and shows the real New Mexico at FotoFeed How To Deal With Bugs… Organically, Of Course! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading, right? The year was 1970. I was off to help some friends in central New Hampshire build a couple of log [...]

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Bringing Back Train Travel To The U.S.

Dear EarthTalk: If train travel is so much less polluting than driving or flying, why are passenger rail options in the U.S. so limited compared to Europe? And is anything being done to shift more travelers over to American rail lines from cars and planes? I take Amtrak cross-country as it’s my favorite way to [...]

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 126.

Hope you guys have been enjoying the guest posts that friends of The Good Human have been publishing this week. I have 1 more week of vacation and have a few more lined up for next week, so stay tuned. On to the Reads for the week… Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk [...]

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It’s A Brave New World For Eco-Designers.

Guest post from Amy DuFault, who has been writing about fashion and design for ten years at such publications as Boston Magazine, Coastal Living and Bluefly.com as well as appearing on ABC’s Emmy award-winning Boston news magazine Chronicle and NBC’s Style File as a fashion expert. Currently she works as lead fashion writer for EcoSalon [...]

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Do One Thing: Stop Washing Your Clothes.

OK, don’t stop washing them – just stop washing them so often! This week’s Do One Thing is to advise you that when you wash your clothes too often, a few things happen: 1. Your clothes don’t last as long. 2. You use more water & detergent than necessary. Water is one of our most [...]