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Countrywide, Germany generates more than 7 percent of its electricity from the wind.
After three years of living in Germany, I’ve started to forget all the cool eco things that are happening here. Stuff like taking the train or bike everywhere and returning all the beer bottles for reuse has become so routine that I tend [...]

If you are lucky enough to live in or around New York City, San Francisco or Los Angeles and are on the hunt for an all-natural hair salon, organic locavore restaurant, recycling center, green realtor, ecofashion boutique, or even, ahem, Earth-friendly burial services, the Greenopia guides are the one-stop guide to green businesses in your [...]

As HippyShopper and EcoStreet (two of my fave blogs) report, this gorgeous British couple (Robert Gray and Stefanie Schmiedel) and their whole wedding party, took the Tube to their wedding! They wanted to save on carbon emissions, and they def. succeeded. I must admit that London’s Underground is superclean and pretty darn fast, but to [...]

Do you remember the article on my bug fetish, “What’s Bugging Summer Rayne,” I wrote years ago for SASS Magazine, as per Sean’s request?
Well, I just got a whole new troupe of arthropods in today, which is cause for great excitement. My friend, Jake and I were preparing the terrariums all weekend. There were a [...]

Took off on Amtrak to Boston this weekend and had a blast visiting my old college friend and ex-roomie. I stayed at his place in Cambridge, home of MIT and a lot of large brains in general. I got to meet some of them during my visit (including an hilarious midwife and a climate [...]

So I think I have used up my allotment of fossil fuels for at least the remainder of this year, or more likely the next decade. Why? My husband surprised me with a birthday trip to Paris last weekend.
Americans have a love/hate relationship with the French. So of course as an American and a “greenist,” [...]

Grab your bike out of the garage because May is national Bike Month and Bike to Work Day 2008 is on May 15 in the Bay area! If you sign up to pledge that you’ll ride your bike to work on this day, you’ll be entered to win a new bike! There will also be [...]

Way more amusing than environmental news has a right to be, as usual!

Keeping warm in colder weather without looking like a North Face refugee
We all know riding your bike instead of driving is not only eco-friendly, but good for our butts and legs (and hearts!) too! But to really make a dent in how many global warming gases you produce, you have to ride your bike for [...]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom started the fire. In March of 2007, Newsom passed the nation’s first plastic bag ban outlawing San Fran’s supermarkets and large retailers from offering customers non-biodegradable plastic bags.
Though Germany, South Africa, Ireland, Norway and Australia have long imposed restrictions on bag use, several countries and cities have recently jumped on [...]