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Best Environmental Writing of 2009

Our writers, editors and readers have named the following EcoHearth articles, blogs, interviews, photos and commentaries as the most useful, beautifully written and inspiring of 2009. Please share this shortened link (bit.ly/gBZk8s) to this Best Environmental Writing page with friends trying to live greener lives and everyone in your social-media networks. Thank you on behalf of EcoHearth and the Earth.

Arts and Culture

• Ten Books That Could Change Your Environmental Worldview...Forever
• Earth Artists: Using Nature in Art to Raise Environmental Awareness

See more about green arts and culture, including the fine arts, music, film and fashion by going to our Eco Zine's Arts and Culture section.

Eco Heroes (and Heels)

• Know Your Lifeboat: An Interview with Permaculturist Brock Dolman
• How to Love a Rattlesnake: Tom Wyant at Work

Read more heartening stories of people from all walks of life making a difference for the Earth by going to our Eco Zine's Eco Heroes (and Heels) section.

Food and Garden

• How to Plant a Vegetable Garden
• Mother Nature Loves a Vegan
• Think Global, Munch Local

Check out more on eco-friendly foods (vegetarian, vegan, organic), composting and gardening DIY in our Eco Zine's Food and Garden section.

Green DIY

• Running Your Car on Waste Vegetable Oil
• Build a Solar-Powered Food Dehydrator—Easy, Detailed Plans
• Backyard Biodiversity: How to Set Up Your Own Nature Reserve
• How to Compost and Build a Compost Heap

See a list of all of our Green DIY pieces.

Green Issues

• Meltdown or Mother Lode: The New Truth About Nuclear Power
• What You Need to Know about Drugs and Chemicals in Your Drinking Water
• The Overpopulation Taboo: The John Feeney Interview
• Fresh Water Supplies At Risk
• Monoculture Agribusiness: Harvesting the Seeds of Suicide
• Swine Flu and CAFOs: Mum's the Word
• The Dangers of Coal-Burning Power Plants

Read more explanations, information and insights into today's critical environmental issues in our Eco Zine's Green Issues section.

Green Living Tips

• Natural Home Hygiene: Cleaning Your House Without Harming the Earth
• How to Refurbish or Recycle an Old Computer
• What You Need to Know About Greening Your Dry Cleaning
• The Eco-Conscious Consumer: How to Consume Less and Consume Smarter
• My Body Is a Self-Cleaning Organism: Natural Body-Cleansing Tips

See many other ideas for green living on our Eco Tips page.

Home and Renovation

• What You Need to Know about Low-VOC Paint
• Light My Fire: How to Choose the Best Wood Stove for Your Home and the Earth
• Home Wind Power: Environmental Answers Blowin' in the Wind
• Leveraging the Sun: Daylighting and Passive Solar Heating
• How To Live Green As a Renter

Learn much more about buying, selling, building, renovating and running an eco-friendly home in our Eco Zine's Home and Renovation section.

International

• Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change with Eco Innovation and Floating Communities
• The French Strike Again: Toxic Tempers and Eco Terrorism

Read fascinating dispatches on internatioanl ecological issues, activism and consciousness from our correspondents around the globe by visiting our Eco Blog's Eco International section.

Kids and Family

• Kids' Environmental DIY: Make a Pizza-Box Solar Oven
• Never Miss a Chance for an Ecological Lesson
• A Lifetime of Wildlife Memories in Five Minutes or Less
• The Great Environmental Diaper Debate: Cloth or Disposable?
• Growing Plants from Seeds—A Fun Way for Kids to Learn About the Earth

Get more advice for green family living, plus learn about educational activities for parents and children in our Eco Zine's Kids and Family section.

Nature Writing

• A Frog Blog
• The Journey Is the Destination

See a list of all of our Nature and Wilderness pieces.

Op-Ed

• The Five-Year Baby Ban
• The 'Porkmole Liberation Front' Manifesto
• What Is Sustainability?
• Nanotechnology: Another Blank Check for Science?

Explore the wide range of opinion on today's ecological issues by frequenting our Eco Op-Ed section.

Pets and Species

• Hiking with My Dog: What Animals Can Teach Us about Being in the World and with Each Other
• Questioning the Sacred Cow of Cultural Sensitivity in the Name of Animals

See a list of all of our Pet stories or our Species-related pieces.

Science and Technology

• Biomimicry: Designing Technology Based on Nature's Wisdom
• Smart Grids: Electricity Networks Are Growing Up

Consider ecological insights and environmental solutions from a scientific and technological perspective in our Eco Zine's Science and Technology section.

Social Connections

• Green Wedding Planner: To Have and To Hold—Without Harming the Earth
• Christmas Is Trying to Kill Me
• The Greenest Consumer Is the Non-Consumer
• Hyper-Individualism: Bad for Children, Bad for the Earth
• Finding Eco Love: A Survey of the Top Green Dating Sites

Explore green social living, including dating, marriage, gift-giving and eco crimes in our Eco Zine's Social Connections section.

Travel and Leisure

• Travel Light: How to Leave Minimal Carbon Footprints While Traveling

Find out more about earth-friendly travel, green cities, eco leisure (cycling, gyms, dance clubs), etc., in our Eco Zine's Travel and Leisure section.