Archive for July, 2010

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Book Review: Off The Grid By Nick Rosen.

I just finished reading an advance copy of Nick Rosen’s new book Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America, and wanted to give you guys a quick review of it. In the book, Brit Nick Rosen takes a trip across America looking for all sorts [...]

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Do One Thing: Buy A Reusable Auto Air Filter.

This week’s Do One Thing is about your car and the air that it breathes. Every car has an air filter that filters the air before it gets sucked into your engine to be combined with the fuel and burned to create energy. It’s vitally important that the air filter is clean, and that’s why [...]

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Greenwash Of The Week: The Sustainability Consortium.

I have written about some whoppers on this site and in the Greenwash of the Week series (Sustainable Brands was one of my favorites), and this is right up there with some of the best. The Sustainability Consortium, an “independent organization of diverse global participants who work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives [...]

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With All This Socialism Going Around…

Socialism: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

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Advantages Of An Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Garden.

For those who love and appreciate a garden, we all know they represent a home for many different types of wonderful creatures and animals. However, certain garden designs are actually very unsustainable and damaging to the environment, regardless of how ”˜green’ they appear to be. Pumps for ponds and garden lighting, for example, often use [...]

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Such A Thing As Sustainable Sugar? Not Quite.

Dear EarthTalk: I am a bartender in Sacramento and I would love to be able to use some sort of locally made or sustainable version of sugar. What’s out there? It sure would be nice if we could obtain all of our food and drink items from local sources, but sugar provides an excellent example [...]

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 174.

Back from my month-long road trip across America! My trip took me from CO to Florida via back roads and small towns, from Florida to MA through the Blue Ridge Mountains, and then from MA back to CO in one sitting…with a 4 hour nap at a rest area in Missouri. It’s good to be [...]