This past week’s This American Life talked about climate change and Republican’s insistence that it isn’t happening. Episode 495: Hot In My Backyard had Ira Glass talking with former Congressional Representative from South Carolina, Bob Inglis. Inglis is a Conservative who once believed climate change wasn’t happening… but even he has changed his mind – [...]
Tesla Motors has paid off the loan awarded to it by the Department of Energy back in 2010. They wired $451,800,000 to the government on Thursday, repaying the balance of the loan with interest. Since the automotive bailouts a few years back, Tesla is the only American car company to have fully paid us all [...]
Sherry Medina has done something most of us wish we could do; she blew the whistle on Big Ag’s “liberal and unrestricted application of hazardous chemicals in poultry processing.” Sick and tired of Monsanto and the Koch brothers? Me too. Thankfully, a new app for iPhone and Android lets you scan product barcodes and trace [...]
A little bit of green news to round out your week… Price is just one of many factors that needs to be considered, and the old saying is quite often true… You get what you pay for. This is why I run my Buy Once, Buy For Life series here on the site. Most of [...]
It’s May already. How did that happen? While I ponder that very question, here’s some green news for you to check out… After 30 years of path-blazing work, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has a few mutinous attitudes about the world of green business. He hates the word sustainability. He doesn’t want to emulate Apple. And [...]
A little bit of green news to fill in a few minutes of your weekend… My new favorite gardening material is the strawbale. Strawbales are used for people housing, animal bedding, animal housing, mulch and now in an even bigger way in the garden. Organic Gardening – Strawbale Gardens and Coldframes Clean Water Action has [...]
This giveaway has ended. Normally, I don’t even really cover Earth Day because I believe that we should take care of our planet every day of the year. However, this year Glass Dharma, the maker of reusable glass straws, contacted me to see if I would be interested in giving away a gift certificate to [...]
