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The Argentine Minister of the Environment (and activist) Romina Piccolotti talks about "environmental discrimination" -- the connections between global warming and social and economic justice.

Creative ideas for your greener city.

Swapping is the latest trend to hit the shopping scene, allowing folks to trade in their old stuff for something new. Check out this post on the best sites for swapping everything from clothes to toys to video games.

Lighting accounts for up to 20% of your home's annual energy bill, so it's a good place to get started on saving money and energy. Check out this post for tips. Includes a list of CFL coupons and rebate programs.

With prices rising at the store and the pump, it's good to know that it's easy to save a fortune by making eco-savvy choices. Check out this story on the top 10 ways to save money by going green.

Learning to tell time is a mathematical content standard taught during the primary grade levels; however, most children are not taught the connection between and the passage of time and the Earth’s movements. By becoming a human sundial, children learn these connections in a way that makes sense to them. Planet Earth is a unique place!

There is no doubt that waste generated by technology is a serious problem and I am sure many of you have seen countless interviews and videos describing where that waste ends up and the impact it is having. Click here to get a small idea of the issue.

Not too often on Ecologicliving.com do we talk about celebrities and who’s green and who isn’t. Just doesn’t really seem to have any informative value, but all and all it is a little fun to poke and joke so here we go!

Tomorrow night at 8:00h turn off your lights for one hour. Get as many people as you can to do the same. Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement.

One year ago, Al Gore testified before Congress on Global Warming, stating among other things that "America is the natural leader of the world, and our world faces a true planetary emergency."

It's easier than you think.

Can you think of any better way to accomplish this than by following this simple little list?

If you implement and all follow this list there is no telling how fast you may accomplish this goal.

Finding fiction to enjoy has aways been a challenge for me. Thankfully, that issue didn’t arise while I was reading the first book of Lee Welles’ Gaia Girls series titled Enter the Earth. (Full disclosure: Lee Welles writes for this blog, but I was assigned to review her books before she signed on with us.) The premise of her series, listed as for ages 9 and up, is as follows:

What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking for help?

The Cool Earth Solar balloons are a hot new product being developed to deliver renewable energy cheaper than current natural gas power plants.

It's essentially Netflix meets Toys R Us! Fablous idea to avoid clutter, cut down on non recycleable plastics, promote reuseage and save the earth!

From New York to Costa Rica, from the first national park in China to a marine protected area in the South Pacific, these are the best of the best, the conservation success stories with the most impact for nature and people in 2007.