Ask Umbra: Environmental Advice

Grist Magazine features Umbra -- the world's funniest environmental advice column.

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September 8, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen


Who names their kid Umbra, anyway? That's a puzzler, but we're sorryto report that it's not one of the questions answered in the latestinstallment of Ask Umbra, the world's finest and funniestenvironmental advice column. Instead, Our Lady of the Stacks takeson a few end-of-summer summer topics (the best type of grill for theenvironment and the environmental implications of reusing woodenpallets for gardening purposes) as well as some all-season stumpers(what's up with Rush Limbaugh?). Also, Umbra solicits ideas fromreaders (that's you) on the environmentally grooviest places to livein the U.S.

Thanks to Laura Kranz

Sunday, September 8, 2002 in Grist Magazine

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