Green Living: Where to Start?

July 21st, 2008 - 2:18 PM

No Impact Man asks over at his blog what you would advise a friend who wants to start living green. I say: Quit drinking bottled water. Filter your tap water if you're worried about it, and get a stainless steel...
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Heroes, Villains, and the Leaders Who Use Them

July 17th, 2008 - 8:03 PM

Regarding the exchange of prisoners and corpses between Lebanon and Israel today, and sparked by a discussion at Josh Landis' blog: One thing I noticed about Sami Quntar is that he was seventeen years old when he took part in...
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Good News All Over

July 16th, 2008 - 10:32 PM

Patrick Lang did a post last week titled Good News in the Levant. The good news just keeps on coming on the Middle East political front, so take your eyes off the stock market and the US economy and consider...
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Slacker Environmentalists

July 13th, 2008 - 11:57 AM

Susan Straight, a novelist, describes my style exactly: It's so lazy being green - Los Angeles Times. We practice a sort of a weird Southern California transcendentalism that doesn't fit in at all with American upward mobility, increasing our equity...
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Silver Lining

July 12th, 2008 - 4:04 PM

As gas prices climb, auto deaths drop.
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Zen of firefighting

July 10th, 2008 - 9:10 AM

California burns; Zen monks show us how to meet the flames.
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