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  Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide to Living Healthy and Looking Good (Book Review)

  The latest from Ecoholic author Adria Vasil "delivers the lowdown on virtually every product that comes into contact with our bodies."

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  5 Creative Ways to Connect Our Kids (And Yourself) to Nature

  The author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods offers ways you can incorporate healthy outdoor time into a child's daily routine.

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  Buy-One-Give-One: Not Always As Generous As It Sounds

  It’s hard not to feel great when you buy BOGO making someone’s life better in some way. Or is it? Ethical Ocean founder Chad Hamre weighs in.

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  2 Years After the BP Spill: Oceana Says It's Not If Another Oil Spill Will Happen, But When

  Oceana's Jacqueline Savitz reminds us that unless we shift to clean energy and away from more fossil fuels and offshore drilling another BP oil spill is inevitable.

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  Spaghetti with Balls or the Fat Ass Sandwich? 10 Cheeky Recipes From The Sexy Vegan

  Brian L. Patton takes the mystery out of vegan cooking, and replaces it with sass and humor.

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  Exclusive: The Cruel Reality of the Global Shark Fin Trade, in Pictures

  Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless takes us inside the brutal world of shark finning.

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  Give an Experience: 10 Green Gifts From Mesh, No Gift Wrap Required

  From an online tool to plant and maintain an organic vegetable garden to an app connecting buyers and sellers of used goods, these experience gifts (many free) don't require boxes, gift wrap, or batteries.

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  Solar Predictions from SunRun: In 2012 Americans Will See Solar as a Way to Save, Not a Science Project

  In this guest post from SunRun, they outline their predictions for the solar power market in the US for 2012.

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  Sudden Action at COP17, But is an Agreement Within Reach?

  Hundreds of protestors flood the ICC at the COP17 talks in Durban, South Africa. Meanwhile, the EU roadmap to agreement gains support.

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  US Youth Steal the Show at the UN Climate Talks in Durban

  As official negotiations stagnate, young activists turn up the pressure to force a real solution at COP17.

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  Why 2020 is Too Late for the Climate

  The United States has argued that a legally-binding climate agreement is impossible until 2020 but there's a problem: By then it will be too late.

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  The Calm Before the Storm at the Durban Climate Talks

  Negotiations begin to heat up at the UN Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa.

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  Life and Death Decisions in Durban

  While some delegates in Durban work to negotiate a future climate regime, others here are fighting for their lives.

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  Durban Update: First US Press Briefing and a Letter to Hilary Clinton

  As COP17 kicks off in Durban, South Africa, the US delivers its first press briefing and NGOs send a letter to Hilary Clinton.

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  Following the UN Climate Talks in Durban With a Top US Negotiator

  How a journalist can experience the UN Climate Talks in Durban through the eyes of a participant, thanks to the Adopt a Negotiator program.

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  Factory Farming Is Not the Best We Have to Offer

  Over the last half-century in the US, small farms have been replaced by large, industrialized operations that treat animals and the natural world as mere commodities. This factory farming system, which slaughters animals by the billions, costs us all.

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  Spacecraft: A Cabin that Embraces Nature

  How can humans live more intelligently within the beauty and bounty of the natural world? By building habitats that are informed and influenced by natural surroundings

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  A Backstage Pass to Climate Reality

  The best seat in the house for the "24 Hours of Reality" show that Al Gore and his peeps put on last week was backstage, where the most surprising—and