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‘Tis the Season for Buying Local

by Belle Bergner “A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.” –Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Biologist ‘Tis the Season, friends… to spend money. And if you […]

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New Year’s Eve on Brady Street

New Year’s Eve + Snowed In + Hometown Hero, read on! by Tim Lambrecht For those of you still trying to decide what to do for New Year’s Eve, there are lots of choices…here’s a short list of what’s going on at some of the clubs on and near Brady Street. Balzac (1716 N Arlington […]

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Ask the Ecologist:

by Belle Bergner Q: I lost the flyer from the City that tells us how to get rid of our leaves and other debris this fall. Can you print that for us? A: Sure thing. Here are the City’s tips and requests to make their job easier during fall leaf pick-up which will occur from […]

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Ask the Ecologist:

by Belle Bergner Q: Is ethanol really an environmentally sound alternative to regular car fuel? A: There are four main ecological issues with ethanol: the energy, water consumption, and land required to produce ethanol are the three major impacts on the production side, and the greenhouse gas emissions coming out of the tailpipe is the […]