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• Vindicating Rachel

  May 2007 heralded the 100th birthday of biologist Rachel Carson, author of the seminal 1962 book Silent Spring, which warned of the dangers of synthetic chemicals and helped launch the modern environmental movement. While many media outlets celebrated her life and work with encomiums, other voices (notably contrarian New [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2007, 4:15pm EDT by Miranda

• Documentary Eyes Environmental Links to Breast Cancer

  I’ve complained before that articles on possible environmental links to breast (and other) cancers are relatively few and far between, and those that appear have no “legs.” So I was excited to hear about “No Family History,” an upcoming documentary investigating the links between breast cancer and the [...]

  Posted: August 20, 2007, 12:46pm EDT by Miranda

• Greening Our Lives: The Personal and the Political

  Greetings! The Green Goddess is back, after a summer long on elder care and short on time to blog. But, dear readers, somehow more than a thousand of you visited just the same from as far away as Greenland, South Africa, and India. Thanks!
  
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  Posted: August 15, 2007, 4:54am EDT by Miranda

• 'Toon In

  
  Once again life and work are stealing me from blogging time. So in the interim, I offer for your amusement and enlightenment a couple of environment-related political cartoons by Mikhaela Reid.
  
  This 27-year-old feminist inksmith recently published a book of her work, [...]

  Posted: June 27, 2007, 11:55am EDT by Miranda

• The Latest on Chemicals and Women's Health

  
  The Los Angeles Times' Marla Cone has written two important new articles about chemicals' adverse effects on women's and children's health.
  
  A summary of and link to the first piece, "Common Chemicals Are Linked to Breast Cancer," can be found over at [...]

  Posted: May 25, 2007, 10:24am EDT by Miranda

• Hope for Haiti

  
  I have a short article out in this month’s issue of E: The Environmental Magazine . However, my piece, “For Haitian Artisans, Recycling Is Survival” does not appear in the public version of the online edition. But, Green Gazette readers, you’re in luck. At [...]

  Posted: May 22, 2007, 1:45pm EDT by Miranda

• I have a "women, media and the environment" post ...

  I have a "women, media and the environment" post up at the WIMN's Voices blog today. Read it here. [...]

  Posted: May 02, 2007, 5:20am EDT by Miranda

• Red Light on Green Homes

  Excited by all the articles and TV segments about how to "green" your home? Ready to become the next Ed Begley, Jr., with a composter, rain barrel, and recycled milk-jug fencing in your yard? Not so fast: Policies and regulations you may not even know about may stand in your [...]

  Posted: April 27, 2007, 7:22am EDT by Miranda

• Earth Day Tidbits

  Behold, a mixed platter of Earth Day weekend observations...
  
  Recycling Confusion
  On Saturday I volunteered at the local recycling center as part of my work requirement for Weaver's Way Co-op. The job consisted of helping people tote cardboard and plastic from their cars [...]

  Posted: April 23, 2007, 3:03pm EDT by Miranda

• Environmental Contradictions

  Yours, Mine, and Ours
  This past weekend, I attended “Step It Up 2007,” a national day of rallies in more than 1,000 communities across the country that called on governments to do much more to address global warming. Specifically: to cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by [...]

  Posted: April 16, 2007, 7:00am EDT by Miranda

• New Perspectives

  
  It's nice to see that people are reading this blog despite that I haven't posted a peep in a month now. With good reason: I was madly moving into my new (80-year-old) house, a first after 25 years of apartment dwelling, then traveling in the [...]

  Posted: April 06, 2007, 7:50am EDT by Miranda

• The XX Files

  I’ve nearly no time to blog as I am in the midst of moving and then, traveling. But it’s Women’s History Month, so there’s no way I’d let March go by without noting some news under the rubric of “Women, Media, and the Environment.”
  
  So [...]

  Posted: March 05, 2007, 3:00pm EST by Miranda

• More Weird Weather

  I live in the U.S. Northeast. Our winters are cold and often snowy. About a month ago, we had a 70-degree (Farenheit) day. Now it's frigid. This photo, taken by my friend Michael Heller of 911 Pictures, depicts Long Beach on New York's Long Island, [...]

  Posted: February 11, 2007, 5:14am EST by Miranda

• It’s Getting Hot in Here

  The news is out: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- a collaboration among thousands of scientists from around the world -- has come out with its latest findings on global warming.
  
  The New York Times headline today summarizes it well:
  
  SCIENCE PANEL [...]

  Posted: February 03, 2007, 7:00am EST by Miranda

• Weather Woman

  Thought the Academy Award–nominated documentary An Inconvenient Truth was too wonkish? Yet still curious or concerned about global warming (as well you should be)? Then your best bet in terms of both information and entertainment may be The Weather Channel’s "Climate Code with Dr. Heidi Cullen."
  
  Now, [...]

  Posted: January 30, 2007, 12:32pm EST by Miranda

• Wanna Buy an Electric Car?

  I just saw the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” which made it seem as if these zero-emissions vehicles were no longer available. But Ed Begley, Jr. of the HGTV show "Living with Ed" drives one. So the other day I went to [...]

  Posted: January 25, 2007, 6:15pm EST by Miranda

• Quick updates

  On Offsets: I recently found a website, ecofabulous, offering the best discussion of the pros, cons, and how-tos of carbon offsets I've seen. Check out the posts on "Ten Facts About Greenhouse Gas Offsets" and "Six Questions to Ask Carbon Offset Organizations." Interestingly, blogger Zem Joaquin (she's female) is [...]

  Posted: January 22, 2007, 10:21am EST by Miranda

• Treed!

  Sometimes I hate being right.
  
  To me, “Plant a tree! Neutralize your emissions!” always sounded too good to be true.
  
  Now comes a study from the American Geophysical Society that concludes that planting trees is not necessarily a good way to offset the carbon [...]

  Posted: January 17, 2007, 11:03am EST by Miranda

• New Ideas for 2007

  Like so many environmentally conscious people, my list of New Year's resolutions includes finding ways to reduce my "carbon footprint" and to "offset" seemingly unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). As Gazette readers know, I'm skeptical of offsets because they don't literally neutralize your GHG output. [...]

  Posted: January 10, 2007, 7:17pm EST by Miranda