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Five Easy Ways to Go Organic (New York Times blog)

tags:
organic, food

If going organic is difficult, says this post, try making the change with just these five foods, which offer big payoffs in both health and environmental benefits.

Real Costs

tags:
co2, carbondioxide, carbon, travel, emissions, airplanes, globalwarming

Firefox users may want to check out this plug-in, which inserts emissions data into travel-related websites.

FixingThePlanet.com | One World, One Community

tags:
green, forums, environment

Actor Ed Begley Jr. launched this site, which hosts more than 40 forums on topics ranging from the general (Green Talk) to the specific (Low Emission Scooters & Motorcycles). Community members can reques

Green Home Environmental Products

tags:
HOME, energy, house, green

Breathing Earth

tags:
carbondioxide, co2, globalwarming, population

Cogs turn and creak as this map illustrates real-time births, deaths and carbon dioxide emissions country by country.

Local Cooling

tags:
globalwarming, energy, co2

Gimmick or good thing? Note to self to check.

A Low Impact Woodland Home

tags:
building, house, eco, HOME

If you don't happen to be Bilbo Baggins this hillside home may not not be a practical model for you, but it sure does evoke happy childhood fantasies.

Threat Reduction Yellow Pages

tags:
biodiversity,, activism,, wiki,, solutions

I just came across this site on TreeHugger. It's a wiki about biodiversity conservation and it looks like it could become a fantastic resource, enabling people around the world to find and share solutions to environmental degradation in their communities

ABC News: Global Warming Affecting Your Life? E-Mail Us

tags:
global, warming

Jon Coifman circulated this and, as he notes, it's interesting, and for more than one reason. For one thing, it is one more indication that the urgent global warming problem is at last front and center with the press and the public (thanks in large pa

Rita Barol
Rita Barol
NRDC website director
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I'm a 10-year veteran of NRDC’s Internet department, a onetime survival expert (summer camp, age...
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