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Becoming Greenland

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | Earth | No Comments

Johann Hari writes a very saddening piece in MoreIntelligentLife.com about the effect global warming is having on the Inuits in Greenland. Did you know that the North Pole could be open ocean as early as 2015?

Living Free

Friday, November 28th, 2008 | Earth | No Comments

Some call them ‘Freegans’, others call them ‘Free-conomists’. Whether they are eco-heroes or eco-zeroes depends on your point of view. The Irish Times has a report and interview with one man who has laid out his new year’s resolution for 2009: To Live Free.

He plans to spend the entire year not spending a cent. He will live off the land and others’ refuse, get his power from the sun and use his bike to travel. So is he a free-thinker or a free-k? You decide.

500 Places To See Before They Disappear

Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Earth | No Comments

If you’re like me, you don’t want a holiday so much as to do something different, see something different. Frommer has published a book called “500 Places To See Before They Disappear” which list the interiors, buildings, sites and landscapes that they believe are in danger of disappearing before too long. There’s a review and some photos at The Guardian.

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