One Person’s Crapola is Another’s Lifesaver
Reusing your stuff is a cheap, planet-friendly move, and now you no longer have to hold a giant yardsale to find a good home for your favorite but ill-fitting ski helmet or that extra garden hose you never seem to use. Swapping or borrowing saves resources because less stuff has…
Party Pooper
Biking to work on the morning of July 5th I noticed scattered remnants of brightly colored paper. In some places boxes were piled and charred remains of something were close by. Fireworks. There was litter from exploded fireworks everywhere. The night before, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, it sounded like…
Eco Travelling
There has been plenty of discussion surrounding travelling and it’s impact on the environment- mainly about how bad air travel is for global warming. Some people are suggesting that to be a real environmentalists, we should all cut down on our travelling, working closer to home (sensible), getting our food…
A Green Tax for 'Binge' Flyers
By guest-blogger C. Tenz When the publisher of a guidebook series says people fly too much, we know we’re in deep CO2 trouble. But that’s exactly what Mark Ellingham, the founder of the Rough Guides, said in an interview recently in The Observer. In an article celebrating the guidebook series’…
Cupid's Shooting Some Green Arrows
I know you all wait until the last minute just like I do…..so here’s a list to help you out of the V-day crunch and still come up smelling like roses with your beau. Whatever your time schedule and budget, you should be able to do something special, even within…
How Do I Love My Country? Let Me Count the Dead
“No More Broken Hearts” rally in Manhattan Beach, California Each red heart represents an American soldier killed in Iraq. Just as Manhattan Beach Toyota was advertising its three-day “Heart Stoppin’ Sale” in honor of Valentine’s Day, community members marked the upcoming holiday in a different way. Approximately five hundred people…
New Year’s GreenSolutions
Right after Christmas I always start thinking about how I need a serious cleanse from all the holiday eating and drinking, not to mention all the junk clogging up my brain from seeing people I haven’t seen in so long, travelling all over the East Coast and generally ignoring healthy…
Report: Climate Change–Local Solutions to a Global Crisis
Last week, I flew home to New England to spend the holidays with my family. It seems that while I’ve been hemmed in by the Los Angeles freeway system, my parents were overtaking me on the environmental superhighway. “We’re going to a town meeting about global warming on Saturday [Dec.…
The real cost of Christmas
What does christmas really cost us? I ask my family not to buy me Christmas gifts. In the beginning it was to make a stance against Christmas saying “I’m not Christian, so it’s not my holiday and these traditions are silly.” But as I grow older and care less and…
Bizarre Bazaar in LA
While I can’t really conceive of being somewhere sunny and warm (not that the Northeast has been exactly frigid lately) for the holidays, I guess people on the West Coast DO still celebrate the Christmas Holidays. If you’re down for some eco-friendly shopping (think recycled candy wrapper purses, hand-knitted goods…
