Katharine Wroth’s Posts

• A Crawl to Arms

  Seventh Generation launches anti-toxics campaign with wee gimmick 6

  Posted 2 days, 8 hours agoFeel like making babies? Now you can do it with the push of a button, by joining the Million Baby Crawl to support chemical policy reform.

• It Could Be Verse

  Climate-news poem: Protest edition 1

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day agoOn the International Day of Climate Action, get out and tell the world that there's no rhyme or reason to allowing runaway climate change.

• EMA, meet Uma

  Happy birthday, EMA Awards ... and you other groups, too 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoThis weekend marks the twentieth annual Environmental Media Association awards -- see who else is celebrating a milestone this year, and vote for which party you'd attend.

• Yeah, we said billion

  A $4 billion push to make affordable housing green 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 3 days agoToday brings news of a major investment in making affordable housing greener, and an ambitious call for an even bigger national conversion. Find out who's behind it.

• Bumper to Bonkers

  For public transportation to survive, we all need to ... drive more? 4

  Posted 2 weeks, 5 days agoCould traffic jams convert drivers into subway riders? Are eco-parking garages the key to increasing train use? A look at the inescapable role of the car in our every deliberation, even when that deliberation is how to ditch the car.

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  Yes, thanks, you beat me to the punch. That's the source that EWG reps cited when I circled back with them. There's a careful distinction here, but mind-boggling nonetheless.On Seventh Generation launches anti-toxics campaign with wee gimmick posted 1 day, 10 hours ago 6 Responses

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  Hm, a fine point you raise. I'll ask EWG to clarify.On Seventh Generation launches anti-toxics campaign with wee gimmick posted 2 days, 5 hours ago 6 Responses

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  Thanks to those who understand my intention here, which was not to suggest that somehow land doesn't matter. My question is, does land make the best rallying cry for getting people involved in the climate fight. I'm not convinced that it does. We agree here, name-calling aside, that there's a huge disconnect between many, many people and the land that sustains humanity -- which means in order to use it as the primary rallying cry on the climate issue, you'd have to first convince the disconnected to feel something about it. We don't seem to have time for that.On Does anyone still care about "the land"? posted 1 month ago 25 Responses

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  Thanks, all, for your thoughtful advice. The more I think about it, the more committed I am to a non-vinyl path -- and it helps that my fella has now said he feels the same way, despite being even more of a tightwad than me.

  But here's the thing: We do have storm windows. Exterior ones. And we added weatherstripping. And last winter, you could still literally stand by a window and feel the draft. When I open or close a window, chunks of glazing fall off (and I'm gentle, I swear). It just feels hopeless. It doesn't help that we have a 14-month-old wandering around, which makes it tough to find the time to learn how to repair a window.

  I'm not here to whine (OK, maybe a little). Just to sort this whole thing out. Can any of you wise people suggest a next step, given that I have storms and weatherstripping? I feel perhaps caulk is in my future.

  On Should I suck it up and buy vinyl windows? posted 2 months ago 30 Responses

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  Yep, ARTIC is going for LEED platinum.

  On The greenest grocery store, biggest "living wall," and more eco-innovations posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago 5 Responses