Forgive us our carbon emissions – Sept 17
The ‘Guilty Green’ (gasp!) don’t always recycle
Want not, waste not is the next green step
Vatican penance
Nobel prizewinner Yunus calls for lifestyle ‘traffic rule’ to fight warming
Waste
Dysfunction – Sept 16
Worst places on Earth Are home to millions
We will be known by the junk we throw away
Wider chairs, plumper derrières?
Pollution raises exercise risks
Finding hope in permaculture
There is hope to be found, but it’s not hope that lets us “Pass Go and Collect $200” (i.e., a hope for a comfortable, stress-free life). Rather, it’s a hope for a new life in which we are the architects of our own survival.
PetroProzac, Dasani-style
Peak oil is usually thought of as a liquid fuels crisis, but all of the other uses mankind has found for hydrocarbons should not be left out of the equation. As with gasoline, we consume plastic water bottles as if there were no tomorrow.
Plastics & pollution – Sept 1
Plastic and the albatross
Message in the drink bottle: recycle
Not in whose backyard? (environmental justice)
Energy & climate policy – Sept 1
China takes “urgent” energy challenge to masses
Nations agree on need for action on climate change
U.N. climate talks end in cloud of discord
Oil-producing nations will have to control gas flaring
World Bank calls on oil producers to cut $50bn gas fire
Technology addicts
We become dependent upon technology and upon the system that provides it and the energy to run it. We forget how to do things for ourselves. …
Hello. My name is Dale, and I am a technology addict.
Eco-friendly – Aug 29
‘Diaper-free babies’ fad swells
Cork vs. screw cap
Christmas trees are eco-friendly
Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency
Coal – Aug 27
King Coal: What it costs us
With coal production, cleaner skies could mean more landfills
Food & agriculture – Aug 23
Global warming to decimate China’s harvests
Chicago wheat gains on speculation U.S. export demand to rise
Uganda farmers use human urine as fertilizers, pesticide
Bullock brothers homestead- 25-years of permaculture
The bounty around us
Waste and consumerism – Aug 22
Africa wages war on scourge of plastic bags
Japan eyes chopsticks for biofuel
Dirty chopsticks picked up in new China scare
Sharon Astyk: Toys R Not Us
Food & agriculture – Aug 11
Climate change challenges gardeners to plant smarter
Scientific American: Hello perennial agriculture!
Popcorn packaging – is it edible?