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From the Publishers
- Political Impotence
Ecology and the Economy
- The economic value of wetlands and open spaces
- Read this article, and then try and figure out why our City Fathers
(or is it, Mothers) aren't protecting your valuable resources.
- The value of the world's ecosystem services
- If you had to pay for the services you get "for free"
from the environment, what would it cost? How about $30 trillion or so?
Solar Energy
- Local solar: today's sustainable energy
- Playing with solar energy can get you in hot water... with luck.
- Creating a solar home or apartment
- The author's apartment doesn't require any fossil fuel-based heating
or cooling. Maybe he knows something...
Ecopreneurs
- A gentle place
- Visit Environgentle in Encinitas, one of the first Green stores.
Eco-tourism
- The Ten Commandments of Eco-Tourism
- How to treat your destination so it stays a great place to vacation.
- Vacations with connections
- Two exotic destinations with a special significance.
Health and Diet
- Naturopathy: healing with nature's medicine
- Treat the cause and not the symptom. What a radical idea.
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- Beautiful food
- Review of Kemo Sabe in Hillcrest
In Your Garden!
- The good, the bad and the bugly
- If you are going to have an organic garden, you're going to have
to deal with bugs. Just don't mash the good ones.
Book Review
- Lessons on life
Observations from the Edge
- The Green Cross of Eco-morality
- Goddess save the queen
Departments
- New Think: the cartoon
- June calendar of Earth-Friendly Events




