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Last login: 13 hours agoOrganicpicks: Organicpicks is a 38 year old woman from California, USA.; Likes 641 pages, 10 videos, 8 photos • 97 fans • Received 23 reviews; Member since Nov 25, 2007

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Greed In the Name Of Green - washingtonpost.com: May 16, 1:39pm 2 reviews environment, consumerism, green
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR20080304031...; From the page: "Consuming until you're squeaky green. It feels so good. It looks so good. It feels so good to look so good, which is why conspicuousness is key."

Green consumerism destroys the environment as much as plain 'ole consumerism.

The New York Times & Log In: May 16, 12:59pm 1 review politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin; From the page: "If Obama believes all this, he's not just a Jimmy Carter-style liberal. He's off in Noam Chomskyland.

That didn't strike me as right, so I spoke with Obama Tuesday to ask him what he meant by all this."

Very interesting perspective.

Naro and CLEVER - City Car Concepts | thecontaminated.com: May 16, 12:56pm 24 reviews science, car, energy-efficiency
http://thecontaminated.com/naro-and-clever-city-car-concepts/; While this looks futuristic, I have seen one more tame version on someone's driveway a couple of days ago.

The New York Times & Log In: May 16, 11:12am 1 review environment, germany, solar
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16solar.html?_r=1&or...; From the page: "This sad stretch of eastern Germany, with its deserted coal mines and corroded factories, epitomizes post-industrial gloom. It is a place where even the clouds rarely seem to part."

Yawns woke up and now live humbly / Young and rich, they live below their means …: May 12, 4:24pm 1 review people, environment, gen-x, gen-y, low-impact
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/04/MN7510DNE5.DTL; From the page: "They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all, shop at local stores, if they shop at all, and pay off their credit cards every month, if they use them at all.

They may have disposable income, but whatever they make, they live below their means in a conscious effort to tread lightly on the earth.

They are a new breed of Gen Xers and Y's, Young and Wealthy but Normal, or Yawns."

How bad is not sorting your plastics for recycling? - By Brendan I. Koerner - Sl…: May 7, 9:03pm 4 reviews environment, plastic, recycle
http://www.slate.com/id/2190734/; From the page: "I've been tossing my used yogurt cups in the recycling bin for years. So imagine my horror when I recently got around to reading the fine print on my city's sanitation guidelines--yogurt cups, it turns out, are supposed to go in the regular trash. Has my inadvertent sorting error ruined many tons' worth of recyclable plastics?"

The Simple Dollar & The Snowball Effect: How Little Moves Now Can Create Huge Ef…: May 3, 6:08pm 4 reviews investing
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/04/21/the-snowball-effect-how-little-move...; It is interesting. To make it more convincing, it needs to take time into the equation. Making your own laundry detergent vs. buying tide. Do you have spend 15 minutes on it? If you make $10 per hour, then it is no big deal. But if you make $100 per hour, 15 minutes can make an impact.

Of course, you can also add environmental effects into the equation. Anyway, this is an interest but incomplete article

Thomas: Global Warming Not a Big Campaign Issue | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 20…: Apr 25, 9:49pm 4 reviews environment, politics, election
http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652; From the page: "There is an enormous class divide on the subject. The chattering classes obsess about greenhouse emissions. The rest of the country, certainly the older and less well-off voters, can't be bothered. Slow food to most people means that the waitress at the local IHOP is falling behind. The politicians duck the issue, or so it seems."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041900942.…: Apr 25, 9:32pm 1 review ecology, politics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR20080419009...; From the page: "Some wildlife researchers have grown so concerned about the consequences of bisecting hundreds of miles of rugged habitat that they have talked of engaging in civil disobedience to block the fence's construction.

"This wall is so asinine, and so wrong, I am one of a dozen scientists ready to lay our bodies down in front of tractors," Healy Hamilton, who directs the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at the California Academy of Sciences, told colleagues at a recent scientific retreat here. "This is one thing we might be able to stop.""