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Articles by Holly Richmond

Holly Richmond (hollyrichmond.com) writes and edits things for fun and money. Please follow her on Twitter because that is the entire basis of her self-esteem.

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  • Ecoflip offers a twist on online classifieds

    Buying something used and local is already a fairly green way to consume (if consume you must) so I was curious what Ecoflip, which calls itself a “green craigslist,” would entail. The categories are fairly standard but have a splash of hippie: Fuel-efficient vehicles get their own section (along with the more expected green living […]

  • A video for World Water Week

    It’s World Water Week, so I have an almost-legit excuse for posting this quirky, quotable video. It’s part of the Look Around You series, a British spoof of ’70s and ’80s educational videos that takes on other scientific topics like Maths and Ghosts. Make sure you have your copybook at hand:

  • Green groups and Dems outraged by Bush admin’s plan to loosen species protections

    The Bush administration on Monday proposed major changes to the way the Endangered Species Act is enforced, asserting that federal agencies should be able to decide on their own whether projects like highways and dams would be harmful to endangered species, rather than having independent reviewers make the assessments. Here’s a roundup of reactions, from […]

  • Online game ‘PackMan’ tries to give ‘Pac-Man’ a green spin

    Joining the ranks of online games with varying eco-plausibility like “Ocean Survivor” and “Catstration” is “PackMan,” or Packaging Man, a creation of the Dogwood Alliance. The organization aims to protect Southern forests from packaging-heavy (and tree-hungry) corporations; the game takes aim at fast-food execs in particular. The intro of “PackMan” depicts colorful villains wielding phallic […]