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Reason #43 to buy pastured, Organic, hormone-free chicken…from a real farm
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now As if eggs aren’t confusing enough, with their many labels, many of which (natural) mean nothing. Organic chickens apparently aren’t everything you’d hoped they’d be...
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Paul and Ringo, could diet be the secret to their good health?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Could it be that vegetarianism, which studies show helps people maintain a healthy weight, is the secret behind Paul and Ringo’s vigor? Paul and Ringo reunited for...
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An injured eagle reminds us we need to be better shepherds of the environment
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now My hometown made the news this week, when a man from Mora, MN initiated the rescue of a bald eagle he’d seen stuck in the snow behind his home. He wisely called the...
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Keystone XL protest reveals discontent with a carbon-heavy future
By Barbara Kessler GRN Reports This past weekend, some 500 or more students protested in Washington D.C. against the Keystone XL pipeline, which is poised to carry a thick crude oil from the tar sands...
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How California’s drought hurts us all
By Barbara Kessler GRN Reports Since we became a nation of urban dwellers, we’ve inevitably lost touch with the weather and how it sustains us. We in the concrete cities and burbs have come to see bad...
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Dallas follows Austin with action against plastic bags; San Francisco enacts...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This month two major US cities pushed the case against plastic disposables a little bit farther down the road. A plastic bag adorns a blooming red bud in DFW. It...
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Small solar and wind producers about to get burned in Oklahoma
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Senate Bill 1456, approved by the House this week, and headed for expected signature by Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday, will place a surcharge on small wind and solar...
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For Earth Day, plant a tree
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Sturdy oak at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. (Photo: GRN) It’s Earth Day. How silly. We’re on this planet 24/7. But I guess after the Cuyahoga River went up...
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Barns Owls – Guess whooooo’s killing them?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now No sooner did I discover some new friends, a Texas barn owl family on Cornell’s Ornithology Cam, than I learned that mom, pop and the four incubating babies were in...
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Seed saving — a path to self-renewing gardens
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now We keep bumping up against a new trend in gardening that should be of interest to active gardeners, especially frugal ones (which is almost all of them!), and that...
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McKibben takes Obama to task on climate action
GRN Reports Environmentalist Bill McKibben, by way of inviting everyone to a mass climate action demonstration in New York on Sept. 20-21, had withering words for the world’s leaders, who he says are...
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By Barbara Kessler GRN Reports Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich has done the bidding of utility and fossil fuel companies, today signing a freeze of Ohio’s renewable energy standards. The state now...
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