July 2007
Featured Stories: Nature Deficit Disorder
WARNING: NO DRUGS REQUIRED, JUST A LITTLE TIME OUTSIDE
Featured Stories: Eco-Overload
IS GOING GREEN JUST ANOTHER POP TREND, OR THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ECO-ERA?
Featured Stories: Preaching the Green Gospel
ECO-CONSCIOUS EVANGELICALS ON THE RISE
Featured Stories: The Great Forest
Imagine a great mountain forest teeming with biodiversity, laced with trails, and stretching across the entire southern Appalachians. That’s the vision articulated in a landmark document published by Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition and its member groups called Return the Great Forest: A Conservation Vision for the Southern Appalachian Region. It describes a future where the Appalachian landscape serves both natural and human communities. But it’s more than just a vision; it’s also a detailed blueprint on how to achieve this vision within the next century.
Featured Stories: It's Easy Being Green
100 SIMPLE WAYS TO GREEN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE
Featured Stories: Sweating It
HOW IS GLOBAL WARMING AFFECTING LOCAL RECREATION?
Featured Stories: Legislation to Watch
With a swing in the Congressional majority and an increasingly eco-conscious American public, several pieces of progressive environmental legislation may finally reach the floor for a vote. Here are seven recently introduced bills that, if passed, could go a long way to protecting the land we love, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.
Featured Stories: Offset Nation
Carbon offsets are only feeding the underlying problem in this country:
Featured Stories: Green Heroes
Being an environmentalist is no longer reserved for tree huggers and Hollywood stars. Everyday people are starting to face the inconvenient truths that are destroying the earth and taking steps along their career paths to instill change. Meet a lawyer, a doctor, an artist, a scientist, a businessman, a mom, and a homeless man all doing their parts to make the world a little greener.
Featured Stories: Green Globes
2007 Outdoor Eco-Awards
Featured Stories: Living Local
A ONE-WEEK LOCAL MAKEOVER
Switchback: Do you wear deodorant when venturing outdoors?
ONLINE RESULTS
YES 59%
NO 41%
Southbound: Green Grooves
Clips from the Green-Globe-winning rockers, Perpetual Groove
Views: Beyond Coal
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY IN THE APPALACHIANS
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