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Christmas in the Slums of Gugulethu: Part 2
The rains coming in mean bad news. In Gugulethu, the shanties here are on dirt and when the water comes, this equals mud…
Year in Review: Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2010
This, the first year of a brand new decade, whizzed by in a flurry and a flash but not without plenty of environmental a…
The Slums of Cape Town: Part 1
I travel the world looking at garbage. Plastic garbage. This is my job. Our NGO quantifies plastic density in the oceani…
3 Green Holiday Dinner Conversation Starters (That Everyone Will Like)
War, science denial and Fox News. It’s what’s going on in the world, but it’s not especially merry, me…
The Goldberg Variations: A Love Letter to My Ex
I am the first to admit that I am, at best, a mediocre environmentalist. My crimes against the planet are too long to li…
The Beige Report: A ‘Green’ Noah’s Ark. Really.
Green. Recently, the mere mention of the word has started to make me cringe. In an attempt to market a multifaceted issu…