Just in case there was still any doubt out there, a blizzard in Washington DC does not mean that global warming isn’t happening. Global warming, the general term used for what is happening around the world, results in climate change – more extreme in some places, less extreme in other places. If anything, it [...]
How much stuff do you throw away each day after a use or two? Each week? Each month? Now multiply that times the billions of people on earth and you can see how that single, seemingly tiny item can really add up to quite a mess. In 2008, Americans alone created 250 million tons of [...]
This past week I have been sick as a dog. I wake up one morning feeling better, and then the next morning I feel worse. I imagine it is some kind of a flu and will eventually go away, but for the time being it has been miserable. And while the first few days involved [...]
Seems even Sean Connery isn’t immune to falling for some greenwash…although I am sure he was paid handsomely for it! Crédit Agricole, France’s biggest bank, is being attacked by the environmental lobby for its advertising campaign calling for “Green Banking” – while they are busy backing oil projects in Ghana and Uganda and lending [...]
To help me keep track and to hold me accountable, this year I am going to track all my utility expenses for the year. I am hoping that by doing so, I can encourage everyone to look at their bills and see just how much energy and water you use on a daily basis – [...]
What are the environmental implications of all the food we throw away here in the United States?
Food waste is a huge issue in America, especially in light of the growing divide between the profligate rich and the hungry poor. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Loss Project, we throw away [...]
Thanks to all of our amazing friends and colleagues, we have raised a total of $1,817.61 for Derek Markham, the writer of Natural Papa. Our “Save The Derek” fundraiser was put together to help Derek with some unpaid medical bills from an accident that he had which left him with a trimalleolar fracture in the [...]
