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The Healing Power Of Sea Vegetables
Friday, July 4th, 2008Sea vegetables are an extremely nutrient rich source of calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, sodium iron, iodine, Vitamins A, B, C, E, K, chlorophyll, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, protein and folate. They also contain all of the trace minerals and micronutrients found in the ocean, which are also found in human plasma, the fluid surrounding [...]
North America’s Most Bike-Friendly Cities
Monday, June 23rd, 2008With oil prices ever-rising many people are turning to the bike for their daily commute. Some cities are much more desirable than others when it comes to bicycling due to the availability of things like bike share programs, bike corrals for commuters, well-maintained bike trails, and bike lanes and boxes.
California did quite well in [...]
Greening Your Cleaning by Deidre Imus
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Greening Your Cleaning is full of valuable information about how to protect your health by going green with your cleaning routine. Deidre Imus convinces the reader that the chemicals we use to clean our homes, can cause serious illnesses and that modern day cleaners contain a toxic soup of carcinogens, neurotoxins (they attack the body’s [...]
Scorecard Measures Companies Impact on Climate
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Environmental reports have a tendency of being full of doom and gloom which I feel has a negative net affect on the real problems at hand. So instead of focusing on the negative aspects of climate impact, Climate Counts has taken a refreshingly positive glass-half-full approach to climate impact with their annual scorecard reports.
Climate Counts [...]
TONIC – Clothes with a Cause
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008I wrote previously about my successes in ridding my mailbox of unwanted junk mail using GreenDimes. Well, it’s been over six months and my mailbox is still thankfully very clean. It turns out the good folks at GreenDimes who helped me clean up my mailbox have another venture called TONIC that sells clothing in order [...]
10 Eco Friendly Reusable Etsy Bags
Monday, May 5th, 2008Here are 10 reusable shopping bags that I found at my favorite website- Etsy.com- a great place to find quality handmade, earth friendly items. These bags prove that it can be hip and fun to be green! It’s one thing to bring your plain canvas tote bag with you to the grocery store and a [...]
Just Say NO To Plastic Bags
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Every year, 500 billion to a trillion plastic bags are consumed world-wide. Only 1-2% of those plastic bags ever get recycled, with most of them ending up in landfills and polluting the planet’s bodies of water. Plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to break down. As they bio-degrade, they turn into small toxic [...]
ViroPop: Environmentalism Made Fun
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008“Okay, let’s get this straight. ViroPop is NOT a new virus-flavored soda. And ZapRoot is not a show about bombarding plants with laser beams. What is ViroPop then? Well, you could think of it as a salad. It’s green, sure, but also cool, fresh, crisp and tasty. And full of surprises. And [...]
DC to Launch European-Style Bike Share Program
Monday, April 28th, 2008I would ride by bike to work every day if it were feasible. I know I’m probably making excuses here, but it would be a monumental and death-defying effort to meander and zigzag my way to work while dodging between the armadas of minivans.
My laziness notwithstanding, some residents of Washington D.C. could be pedaling [...]
Discovery Home Launches Green Channel
Monday, April 21st, 2008The Green revolution will be televised. Coming to a TV near you on June 4th 2008 at 6pm EDT, the Discovery Home channel will be transforming into Planet Green- the first ever 24/7 eco entertainment television network. You can learn more about their earth friendly programming at their official website: Planetgreen.com . Make sure you [...]
