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Brita Belli
Posts by Brita Belli :
10 Great Green Opportunities
Everything’s coming up green. New employment possibilities are emerging in almost every field.
Counting Carbs
"A market for low-carbon fuels can produce a rare convergence of business, agricultural, and environmental interests that, if pursued wisely, could represent a "win-win-win" opportunity," promises the report Biofuels: An Important Part of a Low-Carbon Diet, released this month by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
COMMENTARY: Climate Change: The Next Generation
It was with some sense of detachment that I approached the Powershift 2007 conference at the University of Maryland two weeks ago (November 2 to 5). Honestly? I would have expected a lot of students to attend simply to party somewhere new for the weekend; to make friends, escape embarrassing hook-ups, or find new connections for pot. Not, I guessed, to actually learn. But I met student after student who cared passionately about climate change.
This Place on Earth
This Place on Earth: From Connecticut to California, land trusts are growing, keeping precious resources out of developers" hands, and profiting land owners.
COMMENTARY: Behind the Greens:
At age 33, activist Julia Butterfly Hill is already an icon of the environmental movement. In 1997, she lived in a 180-foot tall, 600-year-old redwood named Luna for 738 days.
COMMENTARY: Free Rides
Boston, home of the "Freedom Trail," a collection of historical sites from the city’s colonial days, offered freedom of a different kind at the AltWheels Festival, held at City Hall Plaza the weekend of September 28 and 29. A tour around the booths gave visitors a vision of energy independence, with a healthy dose of activism, politicking, veggie wraps, barbeque, folk rock and quirky concept cars thrown in.
The Eco Fashion Revolution
It’s all about getting consumers to care about what they wear. Today’s eco-designers are not only rigorous about the ethical issues, they’re making fashion-forward clothes using cutting-edge design and textiles.
Fashion Victims
In countries like Uzbekistan, kids as young as seven are toiling away in pesticide-laden cotton fields, and entire bodies of water have been lost to irrigate the crop. Can demand for organic cotton make a difference?
Billboard Revisited
Turning billboard vinyl (and other oddities) into fashionable fashion accessories.