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News: A Black Hole for Bikes
Blogging the New York Times

Within the first month of living in Chicago our bike was stolen. We’d had it since 3rd grade. It was called, “The City Slicker.” Clearly it belonged with us in Chicago. But someone else thought ...

Green Noise

Are you feeling a bit greened out? Green fatigue is here, and it's spreading fast. Or at least that's what Alex Williams writes in The New York Times....

Blogging The New York Times: On Green, Race, and Gentrification in Portland

We lived in Portland, Oregon for three years, and can say first hand that it really is the epicenter of green. If there can be an epicenter in an epicenter, then it's the ReBuilding Center, a non-pro...

Empty Promises?
Blogging The New York Times

We've got a bone to pick with The New York Times. "The Promise of Green Paint," which ran yesterday, is the kind of story that's easy to get out for a writer under a deadline: compare an entire categ...

It's Not That Complicated: Bisphenol-A [BPA]

We've covered the trouble with BPA before: it's the plastic ingredient and endocrine disrupter that has people throwing out everything from baby bottles to Nalgene brand bottles. It seems more and mor...