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• The toxic assault on our children

  Can we protect kids from the toxic trappings of modern life? 1

  Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Philip and Alice Shabecoff's Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children casts environmental contamination in the context of kids, connecting the dots between the toxification of the young and a slew of once rare, now devastatingly commonplace childhood diseases.

• How much is that brainwashing in the window?

  Our addiction to cheap stuff has become very expensive, new book argues 24

  Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago

  Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, explains the history, psychology, and dangers of the American romance with bargain hunting.

• Long live the green

  10 green royals 5

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

  Queens, kings, princes, and princesses from around the globe are using their media magnetism and sovereign sway to draw attention to a variety of eco-causes.

• Hop on the ban wagon

  Disposable-bag restrictions around the U.S. and the world 4

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

  Seattle is considering a fee on disposable bags, but that hardly gives the city green b(r)agging rights. Cities around the U.S. and countries around the world have already imposed bag bans for all sorts of eco-reasons.

• Who liberates the liberators?

  Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers 1

  Posted 4 months, 1 week ago

  “Rod Coronado is not a terrorist,” says Dean Kuipers, author of Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. In an interview, Kuipers explains how terrorism laws are being used against environmentalists and animal-rights activists.

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