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Sticky notes offer messages of hope after student scrawls cry for help on bathroom wall

A student's desperate plea on a bathroom wall is met with powerful messages of support.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

b

Meet the Burger Lady

Green mom advocates healthy living, but she's best known for her post about a McDonald's hamburger.




b

15 minutes with author Rebecca Cohen

Rebecca Cohen, author of '15 Minutes Outside,' dishes the dirt on how to get kids off the couch and out the door.




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Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, adds 'rapper' to his resume

Find out how Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg made a rap video about organic food that inspired a battle rap response from Honest Tea's Seth Goldman.



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

Lindsay Clarke on how we should be helping the developing world

Clarke's Breaking Ground is a nonprofit organization that works on the local level to help communities complete projects like bridges, libraries and schools.




b

Bentley Christie is crazy about worms, composting worms that is

Composting worms couldn't have asked for a better advocate than Bentley Christie. Meet this amazing entrepreneur, scientist, and worm wrangler.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Troy Dayton is on the forefront of the legal medical cannabis market

The medical cannabis market is rapidly expanding as more and more states rewrite their laws to give sick people access to the controversial medicine. Meet Troy



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

A bunkie of one's own: Q&A with Sarah Richardson

On 'Sarah's Summer House,' interior designer Sarah Richardson tackles a most formidable challenge: The eco-renovation of her off the grid summer cottage located



  • Remodeling & Design

b

Josh Dorfman: The anything but Lazy Environmentalist

Though he may have taken on the moniker of The Lazy Environmentalist, it's hard to find a harder working, more prolific green storyteller than Josh Dorfman.



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

Michael d'Estries: The Original Green Blogger

Michael d'Estries has been a green blogger for almost as long as there have been green blogs. Read about what this eco-media virtuoso thinks about the changing



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

Don DiCostanzo: Electric bike entrepreneur

Meet Don DiCostanzo, the entrepreneur behind Pedego electric bikes. Find out what he thinks about President Obama, e-bikes in bike lanes, and the way to a green




b

Jason Graham-Nye wants to change the way we diaper our babies

Meet the eco-entrepreneur behind gDiapers, a greener, flushable, alternative to the traditional plastic disposable diaper.



  • Babies & Pregnancy

b

Seth Godin on the marketing of global warming

Marketing guru Seth Godin talks about the marketing of global warming, the future of publishing, and what's going to happen when the entire world buys a car.



  • Arts & Culture

b

Chris Briley: Green architect, big thinker

Find out what green architect and Mainer Chris Briley thinks about sustainable design, passive home heating, and the cost difference between conventional and gr



  • Research & Innovations

b

Chris Tackett: Green blogger, social media pro

Environmental blogger and media maven Chris Tackett talks about how he got his job, the future of the green media landscape, and the joys of composting.




b

Jonathan Kesselman: Filmmaker, writer, observer of life

Filmmaker and writer Jonathan Kesselman talks about his latest project, what's funny about global warming, and California's growing anti-circumcision movement.



  • Arts & Culture

b

A not-so-nutty professor brings science to the masses on YouTube

Martyn Poliakoff, a professor of chemistry at the University of Nottingham, may first appear like a mad scientist in his popular series of YouTube videos in whi



  • Arts & Culture

b

Marc Gunther: Keeping watch on the business of green

Marc Gunther is a veteran journalist and online media maven covering the world of green business.




b

Danielle Brigida is leading the NWF into the world of social media

Danielle Brigida is one of the most respected people in the world of nonprofit social media. Read more about this 1-woman army who convinced the National Wildli



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

Joel Makower: Green business maven shares his insights

Makower, one of the most respected voices in green business, talks about greener corporations, what the government could be doing to foster more environmentally



  • Sustainable Business Practices

b

Get inspired: Passionate rain forest activist Beth Doane

As one of America's youngest and brightest social entrepreneurs, Beth Doane launched her first fashion company at age 22, created a consulting firm focused on s




b

A family affair: Q&A with Eco-Me's Robin Kay Levine

Eco-Me, a California-based brand comprised of a colorful 'family' of all-natural household cleaners, was founded by Robin Kay Levine in response to a real-life




b

Pittsburgh might install LED streetlights city-wide

Study estimates $1 million in annual savings, but light pollution and LED's inability to give off heat are issues.



  • Research & Innovations

b

See a 'falling star' from above

Astronaut Ron Garan took a stellar photo last weekend of a Perseid meteor from space. See it and other Perseid photos from recent years.




b

Bortle Light Pollution Scale

The Bortle Light Pollution Scale is a good model for understanding how tainted our night skies are by light pollution.



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

Illinois town becomes official 'dark sky' community

A small town in Illinois has become the world's third International Dark Sky Community, a place that aims to protect the quality of its dark, star-filled sky by




b

Let there be no light: 'The City Dark' premieres in NYC

'The City Dark,' the latest from Brooklyn-based filmmaker Ian Cheney, explores the effect of light pollution on the natural environment and on human health. It



  • Arts & Culture

b

Let there be night: 'Lux' examines light pollution and human consumption

Photographer's exploration of the beauty of man-made illumination around the world reflects humankind's dominance over the planet.



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

New York buildings to go dark during bird migration season

Deadlier than Glenn Close with a kitchen knife, light's 'fatal attraction' kills millions of birds each year.




b

What if the stars were as bright as the Los Angeles skyline?

Living in a city certainly has its charms, but light pollution definitely isn't one of them!



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

NASA's 'Black Marble' shows Earth's nighttime glow

First new global map of Earth at night since 2012 shows the growing impact of light pollution across the globe.




b

Baby sea turtles walk on treadmills for science

Researchers are trying to better understand how light pollution affects the endangered animals.




b

Why these baby puffins need a helping hand

Rescuers help stranded puffin and petrel chicks led astray by city lights.




b

Light pollution threatens migrating birds, especially if they tweet while flying

Birds that produce 'flight calls' during night migration may be more vulnerable to light pollution, a new study finds.




b

Twitter-sourced 'Quakebook' hits Amazon.com

The 'Quakebook' project, a gripping Twitter-sourced charity eBook filled with first-hand accounts of life after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan




b

Amazon: Kindle ebooks outselling print books

Amazon on Thursday said ebooks, or Kindle books, have begun outselling print books for the first time in the company’s history.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

b

Humorist and 'Conan' writer reveals planet's future in new book

Among other things, Rob Kutner thinks we're on the verge of a new Ice Age.



  • Arts & Culture

b

Libraries adopt eBooks

Digital check-outs are becoming an increasingly popular option.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

b

Is the extinction of print cookbooks inevitable?

Cookbook sales are still strong, but as more cooks embrace websites and apps, cookbooks could be in danger of going the way of other print mediums.




b

Today only: Anti-bullying ebooks for $1.99

Amazon honors National Bullying Prevention Month with a daily deal on two titles that help empower kids against bullies.



  • Protection & Safety

b

Free and inexpensive Kindle eBook blogs

It's hard to sift through all the free cookbooks, home improvement and other books that Amazon offers for the Kindle for free - especially when many of them are




b

5 spooky Halloween ebooks for kids

Scare up some family reading fun with these Halloween ebooks filled with ghosts, and goblins, and freaky Halloween legends.




b

10 Cyber Monday deals for kitchen and home

A round up of online stores that have coupon codes, free shipping, and special Cyber Monday deals for cookware, appliances, cookbooks, natural cleaning products




b

Tips for buying discounted Kindle cookbooks

A list of tips and sources of finding deeply discounted and free cookbooks for Kindle.




b

'How to Meal Plan' is useful for getting dinner on the table

This step-by-step Kindle book will help families of all sizes get home-cooked meals on the table.




b

Book Collections app organizes Kindle cookbooks

After amassing a collection of cookbooks and other book on her Kindle, our food blogger tries out the Book Collections app to organize them.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

b

5 Kindle books under $4 to buy with your eBooks antitrust settlement

You may have a credit in your Kindle account from a legal settlement that you probably didn't realize you were a part of. Time for a book shopping spree.




b

'Poor Man's Feast' is a touching, funny memoir about the power of sharing food

ames Beard Award winner Elissa Altman's book about her relationships with food and those she loves is a bargain right now for Kindle.




b

What if you could buy a smartphone in parts?

Phonebloks is a Lego-like approach to smartphone design, where each individual 'blok' is an isolated component that can be replaced.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

b

How do you track all your habit trackers? Aggregator tools can help

New meta-trackers integrate data for an overall view of users' activity and aim to find hidden connections that might help users improve their lives.



  • Gadgets & Electronics