Did you know that some of the most potent and healing plants are growing in or around your home? Mario and I set out this afternoon to identify and pick a large selection of wild edibles from our property and neighboring fields. We were able to learn about a lot of wonderful plants that have …
We were invited to a great tweet chat last night. The chat was under the #OneSmallAct hashtag and is definitely worth checking out for some great tips on lowering our impact on the earth. Mommybites (@mommybites on Twitter), Green is Universal (@GreenisUni on Twitter), and Practically Green (@practicallygrn on Twitter) put together a thoughtful list …
Since Earth Day is right around the corner, we thought we’d take a look at the PBS special on Earth Day that came out two years ago. This series walks us through some of the highlights and lowlights of going green in the United States. We’ll be at EarthFair with 40,000 at Balboa Park in …
The project that Jim Kor and his team is working on is pretty incredible. By using existing technology and reshaping a vehicle to use less energy to do the same amount of work, they have created Urbee. Jim Kor talks a little bit about his background as an engineer and how the whole project got …
Jonathan Safran talks joins ABC’s Lateline to talk about the ethics and environmental impact of a meat diet. Part 1 of 2.
Jonathan Safran talks joins ABC’s Lateline to talk about the ethics and environmental impact of a meat diet.
How to stop global warming? This extraordinary movie made by the Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation from Holland shows us the whole and bitter truth about the influence of the meat industry on our climate and on the devastation of our environment, water and air.
Yesterday as I brought a new light bulb out of the stock room to light yet another lamp at my place of work (for another 22 days) I held it in my hand, gazing at the filament, wondering why we still use this same incandescent globe we’ve been using for a hundred years. My questioning …