There is a New Yorker cartoon from 2007 that shows two sophisticated women standing at a bar. One is saying to the other: ""I hate to admit it, but a man with a big carbon footprint makes me hot."
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Last summer, while I was bicycling along the bumpy brick path that parallels Ocean Road, a car drove by, and someone called out, “Hey, Christina!”...
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I care deeply about Mother Nature, but I don’t want Friends of The Earth telling me what to put on in the morning. In fact, when it comes to fashion, the words sustainable and ethical come across like dreary chaperones at the school dance. And as for the word ‘artisanal’, save it for the cheese...
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Grown-up relationships are complicated. Christina Roberts shares the 14 tips she has learned on how to make love last, from controlling your inner child to letting people change...
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There is no hiding it behind poinsettias, twinkly lights and enhanced TV schedules anymore. Winter is here. And for those of us not living by a ski slope, or near a palm tree, its a slog. The next nine weeks are usually something that has to be endured. Endure is such a dowdy word...
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As I write I have a sixteen year old daughter downstairs, revising for her GCSEs. I say revising, but it looks more like ‘creative procrastination’ to me...
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I don’t know how many of you have dabbled in self-help, but there is a niggling inconsistency to the general message of ‘heal thyself’ that has always thrown me...
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My friend Helen Taylor who works at Ecotricity just texted me that their electric sports car, a very sexy looking black batmobile type thing, called the Nemesis, has just broken the land speed record...
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Have you noticed how colonizing Mars has suddenly slipped into the conversation?
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I got a phone call from my doctor recently, telling me that a recent blood test showed that I was ‘post-menopausal’. I didn’t quite know how to respond to this news...
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Happy Flippin’ Valentine’s Day. I don’t know what happened to me this winter, but I have been struggling to find that loving feeling. Maybe because it has been particularly grey and cold here in the UK. But probably not...
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The only way I can describe it is that it felt like another energy source had been switched on inside my body, like an engine that was over-revving for 16 hours out of 24. Then there were the moments where I was also dragged down by despair. But mostly it was the extra engine...
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When it comes to proper labelling on our beauty products, its not pretty out there...
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As my three year old nephew says, “I so confoosed”. Recently, The Herald Tribunecarried the headline, “ A new generation of oil titans”. The sub heading was “Western Hemisphere rivals OPEC as it moves toward self-sufficiency”. I don’t often buy The Herald Tribune, but I had to buy that one...
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