La Vida Locavore I’ve been on the lookout for new environmental blogs. La Vida Locavore is so good, it got this lazy blogger off his duff to give her a shot out and a link. Go check the blog out, especially the series on her recent trip to Cuba
“Deep Thoughts” Oil is spilling at a rate of 5,000 barrels a day into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil slick covers an area of nearly 4,000 sq. miles and growing. It is shaping up to be one of the worst man-made disasters to ever strike the planet. To put the leak in perspective, 5,000 barrels a [...]
Paper Mate sent me a few of their new pens and mechanical pencils to try out in honor of Earth Day. Now while I don’t think that compostable pens are the solution to the world’s problems – I guess I have to give credit to companies for trying to reduce waste and come up with [...]
What follows is something I posted in September of 2008. The US presidential campaign was building up steam and I was sick and tired of hearing ‘Drill Baby Drill.’ It made me ill because of the stupidity of the entire argument. I wrote, Even when production is pumping at full capacity, additional offshore [...]
Gaea recently sent my family some samples of its extra-virgin olive oil to sample. The premise of their operation is simple: grow great tasting olives, produce high quality olive oil, and offset their carbon emissions. We’ve used the olive oil for a week or so, cooking with it (excellent flavor for meats and veggies) and using [...]
Review: The Book of Rubbish Ideas [ed note: the following post is written by Alison Bayne. Check out her blog at alisonbayne.blogspot.com]
The Book of Rubbish Ideas is anything but rubbish. It is FULL of excellent tips to help eco-newbies and hard-core Greens see rubbish as a resource, cut down on waste, and save time, money and resources as a result. Don’t be [...]
A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car [ed note:] This post was sent to us by Tammy Roberts, from West Yorkshire, UK: I’M GIVING UP MY CAR I didn’t learn to drive until I was 30. Up until that point, I hadn’t seen the point of having a car or even having the ability to drive, as public transport was convenient enough. However, 2 [...]
We’ve seen mega-turbines before — but never one with an output of 10MW, and certainly not one that floats! When completed, the world’s largest turbine will stand at roughly 533 feet with a rotor diameter of 475 feet. At three times more powerful than current turbines, it will be able to power over 2,000 homes. From [...]
We’ve seen vertical gardens on the side of buildings before — but never one this, um, HUGE. Architects and federal officials are planning a series of 250-foot-tall trellises designed to shade the west side of the remodeled Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. The added greenery is just part of a $135 million project that will also [...]
