Think You Need a Car to Move Cross Country or Transport Kids?
These bloggers beg to differ. Welcome to the Car-Free Carnival, a collection of posts by women living without cars. Whether to save money, lose weight, or protect the environment, there are many...
View Article2009 BET Awards: Michael Jackson Tribute or Travesty?
BET gave out their annual music awards last night. I'm going to be straight up right now and say I didn't watch it. That's right, I'm the BlogHer TV Contributing Editor and I didn't watch that TV...
View ArticleCutting the A/C & Powering Down: Do our personal changes matter at all?
I'm depressed. Down in the dumps. Anxious and overwhelmed. For over two years I've focused on personal change: eliminating disposable plastic from my life, reducing my energy consumption, and living as...
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NY Fashion Week GreenShows: Beautiful Styles with an Eco Twist
What do New York Fashion Week, a sheep sanctuary in Britain, and destruction of the Indonesian rainforest have in common? The GreenShows, the first semi-annual fashion event "exclusively committed to...
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Climate Action Day is coming. What will you do?
Back in the early 70's when I was a child, there were few movies scarier to me than The Wizard of Oz. Surprisingly, the made-for-TV Horton Hears a Who was one that frightened me more than that wicked...
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Blog Action Day: I'm Thinking about Copenhagen. What are you thinking about?
Think ahead to December. Cast your mind to Copenhagen.This December, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unlike the last time there was a conference of...
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Farmers Markets Offerings: Local, Organic, Seasonal, in Plastic?
What's more ironic than local, organic, seasonal food encased in plastic? That's what I wondered back in 2007 when I first started my quest to eliminate unnecessary plastic from my life. A trip to my...
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Could You Go a Whole Year With Only Five Pounds of Plastic Trash?
What if you were told you were only allowed to generate five pounds of plastic trash this year? And what if that five pounds had to include both your recyclable AND non-recyclable plastic? Could you do...
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Bring electric cars back with a vengeance
If you've seen -- or heard about --the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, you know that we used to have electric cars. But those eco-friendly cars were almost driven to extinction when car...
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Will You Take The Car-Free Blog Challenge?
Could you give up driving your car for one week and survive to blog about it? I'd love to include your post about the challenges of living with less driving in a Car-Free Carnival here on BlogHer in...
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