Today’s third post! The following tips for cutting back your energy use and thus reducing your environmental footprint comes from my energy utility. They are not green but I pester them from time to time on their lack of green energy options. Install a programmable thermostat that automatically adjusts the temperature when you’re sleeping or [...]
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Lots of good stuff today from the Sierra Club, so pay attention. Action Alerts below! “You Say You Want a Resolution?” 1) Read one authoritative book on global warming. Al Gore’s book version of “An Inconvenient Truth” is excellent, but here are some other titles to consider: “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” by New Yorker [...]
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Today’s DawnWatch features an interview with my favorite vegan chefs, Isa and Terry of the Post Punk Kitchen. You can find all of their cookbooks at Border’s or Barnes and Noble and I cannot recommend them enough for their clever organization, completeness, educational tidbits, and seriously tasty dishes (and cupcakes!). This morning, Sunday, January 6, [...]
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Pretty good information today from the Co-op America e-mail newsletter so I’m going to share it with you because I know you want to be a good, green citizen and reduce, re-use, and recycle. Don’t you? Q: If my recycling gets picked up in the same truck as trash, is it really being recycled? A: [...]
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Please contribute to the Wildlife Direct Fuel Wood for Refugees campaign! We need $20,000 to buy fuel wood for refugees of the Congo war to prevent further destruction of Virunga National Park and the gorilla habitat by charcoal traders! My friend, MsOrganicLady, recently posted in her blog about “The Story of Stuff” by Annie Leonard. [...]
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New stuff in TAKE ACTION! GO! So, this is how I think these days … whatever I look at, whatever people consume, whatever you see around you, there are ways to do it that are greener, sustainable, eco-friendly, animal-friendly, and people-friendly. I swear it’s true, but you have to look. Today, the nasty, pink, deicing [...]
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I’ve found that once you really start looking at how you live and how you affect the world around you, that it becomes a habit – a really good habit. Everything I do, everything I buy, how I maintain my home are all subject to intense scrutiny for ways to lessen my impact on the [...]
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Take Action! page updated! Here are some very good tips from Sierra Club’s “Green Life” e-mail alerts: New models of automatic dishwashers can actually save water over hand-washing. According to the University of Bonn in Germany, an efficient dishwasher uses one-half the energy, one-sixth of the water, and far less soap than doing it the [...]
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First post of the day! Do you listen to NPR? If not, then you should because you’ll learn a lot. Marketplace, a show produced by American Public Media and run on my local NPR station, WAMU, features a fascinating new series titled “Consumed: Is the Consumer Economy Sustainable?” You can listen to all the episodes [...]
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Seems I took a few days off from blogging. My apologies to the three of you who’ve been checking regularly. Let’s get busy … The Sierra Club’s “Green Life” newsletter has a financial tip for y’all: Turn your investments green: Support socially and environmentally responsible corporations. Check out SustainableBusiness’ report, The World’s Top Sustainable Stocks: [...]
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