Articles tagged “Green Glossary”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Green Glossary: Mother Earth By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 30 2008 Mother Earth, today, is perhaps best known as a magazine—specifically, "America's leading magazine about sustainable, self-reliant living." But the term was used by the legendary Emma Goldman as the title for different sort of publication more than a century ago. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Habitat Fragmentation By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 29 2008 Habitat fragmentation is ?a process of environmental change important in evolution and conservation biology. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Biome By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 24 2008 A biome is ?a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. ... Each biome consists of many ecosystems whose communities have adapted to the small differences in climate and the environment inside the biome.? + READ MORE

Green Glossary: The Lorax By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 23 2008 Here's what Random House has to say about The Lorax by Dr. Seuss: "Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Monkey Wrench By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 23 2008 As a green term, monkey wrench arises from Abbey's 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang. The general definition of monkey wrench is simple: "something that disrupts." Of course, people have been using monkey wrenches long before the expression became linked to sabotage. + READ MORE

Green Glossary - Ecotone By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 23 2008 An ecotone is a ?transition area of vegetation between two different plant communities, such as forest and grassland. It has some of the characteristics of each bordering community and often contains species not found in the overlapping communities. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Clean Coal By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 23 2008 If you found coal in your stocking this morning, don't kid yourself: it ain't clean. No matter what the president-elect might think, "clean coal" is a contradiction in terms. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Sandcastle By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 22 2008 When I read this at ABCNews.com: "Scientists have discovered extraordinarily precise data on rainfall in the Mediterranean region from 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D. which suggests that the fall of the Roman and Byzantine empires may have been partly caused by climate change," I immediately thought: Sandcastles. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Green Power By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 22 2008 Green Power, in the eyes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a partnership of sorts, e.g ?The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that supports the organizational procurement of green power by offering expert advice, technical support, tools and resources. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Mindfulness By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 18 2008 Mindfulness, in the Buddhist/meditation sense, is defined as "concentrated awareness of one's thoughts, actions or motivations." In greener terms, it might be best described as recognizing and accepting accountability. As Noam Chomsky reminds us, we are "responsible for the predictable consequences of our actions." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Readymade By Mickey Z. IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 18 2008 Marcel Duchamp, arguably the most important artist of the twentieth century, became known for his readymades?but that doesn?t mean he could describe what he was doing. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Sustainable Woman By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Dec 17 2008 Meet Joan Pick, a.k.a. Sustainable Woman. As reported at EcoStreet.com, Miss Pick "hasn't flown since 1971, and hasn't been in a motor vehicle since 1973 (except for a trip in an ambulance and one in a funeral car)." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Great Smog By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 17 2008 There had been many examples of ?killer fog? in London before but from December 5 to 9, 1952, residents of England?s largest city were introduced to the ?Big Smoke? and this event ?formed an important impetus to the modern environmental movement.? + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Relational Activism By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 16 2008 The green movement covers a lot of ground. From a Soccer Mom bringing her own bag to the supermarket to the anarchist tree sitting for months, activists engage at a variety of levels. In addition, those deeply concerned about environmental issues often "cross over" into activism related to war and peace, social justice, etc. But, where and how can we all connect? + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Green Audit By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 15 2008 A Green Audit, according to an online dictionary, is defined as such: ?Inspection of a company to assess the total environmental impact of its activities or of a particular product or process. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Billboard Liberation By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 15 2008 The Billboard Liberation Front got things started in their own way and, of course, there are different versions of what constitutes a truly liberated, green billboard. But smack dab in the middle of New York's Times Square, we've got ourselves a billboard to write home about (or at least, to blog about). + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Grainy Season By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Dec 12 2008 Across the globe, grains constitute about 50% of the world's daily caloric intake. However, in food court crazed America—where the large majority of grains grown on US soil are fed to doomed livestock—your garden variety human typically falls well short of the recommended six to eleven servings of amazing grains each day. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Eco-Poetry By Mickey Z. IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 11 2008 "Can poetry be ecological?" asks Forrest Gander at the Poetry Foundation. "Can it display or be invested with values that acknowledge the economy of interrelationship between human and non-human realms? Aside from issues of theme and reference, how might syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an ecological ethics? + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Green Fakers By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 10 2008 Sure, this is the kind of post that might generate controversy but let's face it, not all that glitters is green. Plenty of the celebrities jumping on the eco-bandwagon aren't first checking to see how many miles per gallon that bandwagon is getting? + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Mangroves By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 9 2008 Mangroves are "trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics" and are found in "depositional coastal environments where fine sediments, often with high organic content, collect in areas protected from high energy wave action." The United Nations Environment Program has estimated that a quarter of the destruction of mangrove forests stems from shrimp farming. + READ MORE