To help me keep track and to hold me accountable, this year I am going to track all my utility expenses for the year. The average household uses 936 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity and 400 gallons of water per day, while the average individual uses 250 kWh of electricity and 70-100 gallons of water – [...]
You know those little plastic bags on the rolls next to the lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes? Millions and millions of those are used every day in the United States – which kind of defeats the “Bring Your Own Bag” movement taking hold lately around the country. While we bring our own canvas bags to the [...]
I was just sent an email from one of my favorite companies, Patagonia, about this Witness for Wildlife (W4W) program. It is a citizen naturalist community “dedicated to chronicling and protecting North America’s wildlife corridors”. A program of Freedom to Roam, a group assembled to protect wildlife corridors in North America, is set to debut [...]
And it’s about time, given that the fuel efficiency standard (set by CAFE) in the United States was 27.5 MPG in 1985…and was still 27.5 MPG in 2009. The Department of Transportation, along with the Environmental Protection Agency (a name sometimes seen as being oxymoronic), have worked together to establish new efficiency standards [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Are there any health hazards associated with the use of the new silicone bake ware and cooking utensils? I have found information associated with the hazards/benefits of Teflon and other cookware but nothing on the use of silicone.
With all the negative press about Teflon and about metals leaching out of pots and [...]
160. I have been publishing the Quick Green Reads for 160 weeks in a row – over three years! The Good Human turns 4 years old in a month so I better begin planning a birthday celebration. Maybe a giveaway? Maybe I will try to get the website to blow out some candles? [...]
Are you living in your own green bubble of sorts, where it is easy to think that everyone else “gets it” and is doing their best to help keep the planet clean? I know I find myself there quite often because so much of my life revolves around my green blogging friends, books I [...]
