- ‘culdesactivism’ — engaging at micro-neighborhood level

A great story about the accidental birth of a grass roots environmental activist and a great new coinage — culdesactivism — from James Glave today in Salon.

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- will environmentalism lead to less drug abuse?

Here’s a great reason not to do drugs — it’s bad for the environment!  And here’s Gawker’s take on the idea:
Yuppie cokeheads, stop snorting massive rails for the sake of the endangered tree frogs! That’s the new anti-drug message coming out of the UK. And it just might work!
Could that be the one thing that [...]

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- the birth of the Eco-Scold. Are the best environmentalists really the most obnoxious?

San Francisco journalist David Curran has an odd article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.  Under the title “Eco Worriers,” Curran describes an environmentally-aware neighbor whom he fears — without having ever spoken to this person.
The simple fact that this neighbor sports a cute license plate (‘ECO BRAT’) on his or her Prius, it appears, sends [...]

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- all hail Rebecca Solnit

Here at EarthQuaker, we have a lot of time for Rebecca Solnit. She’s a Bay Area neighbor of ours and simply one of the most interesting authors currently writing on the history, mythology, economics, politics and ecology of the American West — and how they all intersect.
But Solnit’s interests, and abilities, range more [...]

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