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by Gabriel Cross You may have heard that being vegetarian is green. You may also have had a vegan activist tell you that meat is murder and you are killing the planet. While there is definitely some truth to the argument that a vegetarian diet...
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by Gabriel Cross After writing about buying second hand goods, I got a few comments about giving to thrift stores, selling to stores like Crossroads, and having a garage sale to get rid of stuff instead of just throwing it away. After all, as I...
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by Gabriel Cross This past weekend Courtney and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. We decided, instead of gifts, to indulge ourselves to the highest possible degree at the local thrift stores. We did so not because we are broke (although we are not exactly sizing...
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by Gabriel Cross It’s complicated. Cars are complicated. First, we want to stop burning fossil fuels, and for most of us the gasoline going into our tank is the only fuel that we actually come into contact with directly. You can look at a light...
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by Gabriel Cross For greenhouse gases, like so many other things in our environment, too little and too much are equally problematic. Life is a balancing act, a tightrope walk, and anything which tips the balance one way or the other can lead to a...
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by Gabriel Cross I am a regular reader of the blog TreeHugger. Not so much because I am a good environmentalist, which I try to be, but rather because I enjoy being regularly infuriated by the assertion that some totally inane design concept is going...
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Whether trying to cut costs or carbon emissions, more people are attempting to reduce their energy consumption every day. Most energy saving measures require some up front cost to initiate, and some can be extremely expensive. Although any good measure will pay for itself in...
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Despite the disagreement in the media about whether there is consensus in the scientific community, there is consensus in the scientific community that global warming is real, and it’s a big problem. The issue of sustainability affects everyone on the planet. It is universal. It...
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