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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Michael Kroon
Serving is Swell: Surf Voluntourism in Peru
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February 23, 2009: NRDC superstar Courtney Hamilton has treated us these past few months to a series of pieces on her experiences in "Volunteer Tourism" - namely, using her vacation time and money to take care of elephants in... read more >
Past Advice for the Future President
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December 12, 2008: A little before Election Day, I heard Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D., of the eco-design non-profit Terreform, speak to a gathering of green leaders at Tree in the East Village, NYC (the event was sponsored by GreenSpaces).Named one... read more >
Wall Street: the Sustainable Sequel
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October 9, 2008: Nicholas Eisenberger serves as Managing Principal at GreenOrder, an environmental consulting firm based in New York and known to some as the McKinsey of green business. He spoke with me recently about the need to redirect,... read more >
Waste is Out of Style
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September 30, 2008: Wearable Collections organizes clothing recycling collection in buildings around the city, helping style-sensitive New Yorkers free up space in their tiny closets while easing the waste stream and supporting multiple... read more >
Green is Every Color
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September 23, 2008:  [Van Jones talks at Newark's Green Future Summit] In his new book The Bridge at the Edge of the World, NRDC co-founder Gus Speth advocates environmentalists' embrace of human rights, social justice, and other progressive... read more >
Scared to care
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September 16, 2008: I recently discussed renewable energy with a New Yorker working in project finance. For keeping-her-job purposes, let's call her Jane Dough. She sheds light on the pessimism of financial institutions that can't seem to stay... read more >

Re "Scared to care" (September 17, 2008): I think the interviewee focuses on the dollars and cents (indicated in the original title "$cared to ¢are") of renewable energy equity investment, as opposed to the technical plausibility of the utility projects. And though... Read More >
GreenYour.Self
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September 3, 2008: Michelle Madden has climbed Mt. McKinley. As CEO of GreenYour.com, she looks to create a new slippery slope: everyday environmental choices tumbling together towards sustainability. She met me in New York this week to talk... read more >
Discounting Consumerism
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August 26, 2008: Janna Olson works as a Sustainability Marketing Consultant in New York City, currently serving as the NYC Market Manager for Greenopia's local guides to green living. I spoke with her last week to talk about the power of the... read more >
My Hero: A Mom with a Paddle
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August 12, 2008: Margo Pellegrino is a 41-year-old mother of two from Medford Lakes, New Jersey who cares about the health of the world's oceans-a lot. Last year she paddled her canoe from Miami to Maine in an attempt to get a little... read more >
Michael Kroon