Green Living Tips and Ideas

According to http://dietchoices.com/diet-plans/ there are over 780 diet plans that have been classified and that are either recommended or not. How many have you tried? Personally I think I will go for the Pasta Chocolate Diet (it is for real!) Read the original article at Current

With just a few precious days of planning left, here's a juicy green guide that will do all your St. Patrick's Day multi-tasking for you! http://www.greenwala.com/community/blogs/all/5282-St-Patrick-s-Day-4-Tips-To-Gre… Read the original article at Current

Hmmmm…how can I put this in the most PC way possible? Animal $#*t & urine might very well become the star ingredients of your toothpaste, aftershave and medicines in the near future!!! http://www.greenwala.com/community/blogs/all/5290-Recycled-Animal-Waste-Medicine… Read the original article at Current

Dr. Shukri Souri of Exponent: Explaining the Toyota pedal issues on Monday. (Toyota photo) From a public relations point of view, this one is for the record books. Just after Toyota staged a lavish webcast to try and put sudden acceleration behind it, a Prius ran wild to 90 mph on a California highway, resulting in ...read more

The debate about moving to a clean energy economy is over. The question is, how long will it take? Some, like the recent Wall Street Journal article “The Long Road to an Alternative-Energy Future” by Michael Totty, posit “we shouldn’t expect” clean technologies to significantly dent ...read more

Glass houses, stones, etc. That’s the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet. To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a ...read more

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More and more home gardeners are interested in growing their own food this year. Plant nurseries and seed companies are already showing sales of vegetable seedlings and fruit trees on the rise this spring. For the most part, this is fantastic news. Bring me more garden geeks! But here’s my dilemma. Are home gardeners going ...read more

Originally posted on grist.org. Tom Friedman had a column over the weekend lauding a couple of American clean-energy innovators and entrepreneurs. Like almost all his green-focused columns, it’s good stuff. However! In the course of accomplishing his worthwhile objective, Friedman and one of his subjects both say something I just can’t let pass without comment. I ...read more

Around the world civilian rights to food and water are being eroded by the patenting of life forms and by privatization of water systems. Some farmers have been hit with law suits for patent infringement, while they were planting heritage seeds. The outspoken, multi-talented Vandana Shiva, joins us to talk about these and other issues ...read more