Beginning this fall, a $300 rebate program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will encourage consumers to buy new ENERGY STAR-rated home appliances. The new program authorizes rebates of between $50 – $200 for purchases of efficient household appliances. This is great news for folks who have been thinking of replacing their [...]
What good does all that grass really do anyway? Wouldn’t a front yard covered with edible plants make a lot more sense than just a big expanse of grass that needs mowing but serves no purpose? Well, these people have discovered the art of planting edible gardens in their front yards, which simultaneously saves them [...]
This weeks Do One Thing is about watering your plants, trees, and lawn. If you live in an area where you need to do some watering, please be sure to water either early in the morning or very late in the afternoon. Watering in the middle of the day leads to more evaporation than watering, [...]
They can claim that the palm oil they use in their chocolate is “green and sustainable” – but that doesn’t mean that it actually is. See, they are certified by GreenPalm, a certification system used by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to encourage farmers to produce sustainable palm oil. But only a tiny [...]
A trailer of the upcoming film, Burning the Future. The film takes a hard look at the environmental and human effects of strip mining coal in the US. I just watched it and while I cannot wait to see the entire film, it made me sick to my stomach that this goes on in so [...]
The following is a guest post from Judy Nguyen. As all things have an end, so do vacuum cleaners. We’ve seen it; An old vacuum cleaner collecting dust in the attic, or left by trash dumpster along with use mattresses and shelves, possibly by college students moving back home for the summer. How long does [...]
