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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.