Green Living: environmental news and resources
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Useful Sources Meet the Greens
WGBH's online series The Greens gives kids a fun primer on sustainability and green living.
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A Q and A with author Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben, a Lexington native, environmentalist, and writer, will be returning to Lexington Sunday to speak at Cary Hall. McKibben, the author of several books...
The 45th parallel: Warming where we live
Learn about New England's fight against global warming with The Globe's series.
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Have you started a roof-top garden? Installed solar panels? Or maybe you've tried some smaller things like using reusable grocery bags or buying produce from a local farmer's market?
More green news
Rough seas in gulf delay final plugging of BP well (By Harry R. Weber, Associated Press)
Climate panel needs new management, report says (By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press)
Car stickers could add grade for efficiency (By Ken Thomas, Associated Press)
Obama vows to stand by, fight for New Orleans (By Helene Cooper, New York Times)
Despite outcry, Japanese fishermen prepare for dolphin hunt (By Adam Le, Bloomberg News)
BP engineers might have misread results of well stability test (By Joe Carroll, Bloomberg News)
Engineers prepare to remove gulf well’s cap (By Harry R. Weber, Associated Press)
Biden credits energy savings (By Holly Ramer, Associated Press)
Pentagon emerges as foe of wind power (By Leora Broydo Vestel, New York Times)
Panelists batter BP over past accidents (By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post)
Key device in spill was not recertified (By Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press)
Rugged ride raises money to protect state’s open spaces (By Kate Kirby, Globe Correspondent)
Bacteria ate away at gulf oil plume, study shows (By David Brown, Washington Post)
Wind power firm to open plant in Fall River (By Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff)
Rig manager challenged BP on personnel change (By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post)
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Return of the green expo
The sustainable living expo down:2:earth returned to the Hynes Convention Center. Find out how to green up your world, like this stained glass made of recycled bottles.
A map to a greener life
A growing body of research is putting our everyday lifestyle under the microscope to discern the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that our choices create.
Want a green-collar job?
Green-tech companies in Massachusetts are hiring, and the stimulus will likely improve positions open. Here is a look at a few of the companies that will be adding jobs.
Plastic or paper? Maybe neither
Environmental officials and the owners of hundreds of supermarkets throughout the state are expected to sign an agreement today to reduce by a third the plastic and paper bags the grocers distribute in Massachusetts.
Who's the greenest?
Boston restaurants think locally and act innovatively to reduce their environmental impact.
In praise of plastic
Why an oil-sucking, landfill-clogging, non-biodegradable, it's-everywhere material is so good for the environment. Really.
The Great Diaper Debate
Many parents who want to lessen the environmental impact of raising a baby are choosing cloth over disposable diapers. Problem is, they may not always be making the greener choice.