Archive for November, 2009

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November 10th, 2009

Massachusetts College Students Sleep-Out For Their Future.

Guest post from Dan Abrams, the Boston & New Media Coordinator for the Leadership Campaign and a student at Northeastern University in Boston. You can see what The Leadership Campaign is up to and learn how to get involved at: www.theleadershipcampaign.org and our blog at: www.theleadershipcampaign.wordpress.com
Today’s college students are shockingly very busy. Â We have [...]

Environment

November 09th, 2009

Financial Incentives For Energy Efficiency In New Mexico.

The following is a guest post by Nan Fischer, a Certified EcoBroker specializing in green real estate in Taos, NM. Check out her website www.nanfischer.com, and follow her on Twitter for a daily green news feed, www.twitter.com/nan_fischer. Nan writes about green building, solar energy and the environment on her blog, www.desertverde.com. .
You can dramatically lower [...]

Government

November 08th, 2009

The Environmental Impact Of Discarded Cigarettes.

Dear EarthTalk: Has anyone ever studied the environmental impact of discarded cigarettes? Iâ€™m constantly appalled at the number of drivers I see pitching their butts out their car windows.
Itâ€™s true that littered cigarette butts are a public nuisance, and not just for aesthetic reasons. The filters on cigarettesâ€”four fifths of all cigarettes have themâ€”are [...]

toxic

November 06th, 2009

Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 142.

It’s moving day! Hopefully everything will go smoothly this weekend as I move in and get settled, and I expect to have internet service again starting on Monday. Wish me luck! To keep you busy, here are a few great articles that caught my eye over the past week…
Iâ€™d Like To Buy The [...]

Favorites

November 05th, 2009

Homegrown Vegetables: Get In Touch With Your Food Source.

Not sure when or how, but we’ve become totally out of touch with our food source. How many of us have ever had the pleasure of enjoying some homegrown vegetables? I read the book Plenty and in it they said that our food travels from farm to plate about 1,500 – 2,000 miles. That’s insane [...]

Food

November 04th, 2009

Greenwash Of The Week: Nestle Pure Life Water.

I don’t really have much to say other than…yea, right. Nestle’s ad campaign for their Pure Life water touts the fact that their bottles use 15% less plastic because of their “Eco-Shape”. Um…
There is absolutely nothing green or eco about water packaged in plastic bottles. Nothing. And as I always do when posts like this [...]

Green

November 03rd, 2009

Saving Money On Gas Is Not A Good Reason To Pay Extra For Hybrids

Why? Because buying a hybrid is not all about saving money. It seems that every day I read somewhere or see on television the complaint of “Well, I won’t buy a hybrid because it would take me years and years to make back the extra expense over a regular gas engine“. Though saving [...]

Automotive