All Posts Tagged With: "environment"
Hybrid Car Sales Plummet Along With Oil Prices
As oil prices go, so goes our commitment to a greener lifestyle.
11Dec2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Environmental Watch - Polluters Beware
When money talks, finally they listen. Time to hang up your green-washing, big business. You’re not fooling anyone.
29Nov2008 | Lisa | 4 comments | Continued
America Recycles Day November 15th, 2008
It’s the Eleventh Anniversary.
12Nov2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Clouds Move in Over Alternative Energy
Excuse me, but lower oil prices won’t stop the polar ice cap from melting!
23Oct2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
50 Ways to Go Green
Feeling a little overwhelmed by the push to go green? If you’re driving around in a hummer, having trouble grasping the “go green” concept, just ask yourself:
what one thing can I do to make the planet greener -besides paint my SUV green?
28Sep2008 | Lisa | 7 comments | Continued
For ExxonMobil and Shell: Oil is King. Long Live Oil.
GM posts a 15.5 billion dollar loss, while ExxonMobil, and Shell clean up.
I’m not surprised. All promulgate the same position: Oil is King.
Only for GM, oil loyalty spells disaster. Not thinking about fuel efficient and alternative energy vehicles will sink them. In Darwinian terms: another dinosaur gone extinct.
ExxonMobil and Shell, as [...]
Cash for Clunkers - A Great Idea
Alan Blinder of the New York Times is proposing a new eco-friendly stimulus package called Cash for Clunkers. He describes it as “the best stimulus idea you’ve never heard of.”
I agree. The plan in a nutshell:
“Cash for Clunkers is a generic name for a variety of programs under which the government buys up [...]
Are We Heading Towards a Four Day Work Week?
I’ve been working four ten hour days on and off for over ten years now. As a biotechnical product support specialist living in the Boston area, I work for a team that supplies customer phone support for North America. Working the four long days helps my manager more easily schedule west coast phone [...]
7Jul2008 | Lisa | 10 comments | Continued
Are you one of George W. Bush’s Canaries in the Coal Mine?
I felt the hair go up on the back of my neck reading one of my earlier April posts called Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction.
The gist of the article is that, instead of reducing the EPA mandated acceptable smog levels from the what was then 80 ppm to [...]
New Website Outs Companies With Poor Corporate Responsibility Records
I like buying from companies that stick to socially and environmentally responsible business practices.
The new catch phrase is called “greening my life.”
Whatever.
I just want big business to care. And sometimes they need a little nudging to do that.
Otherwise, I can drive my Prius until the cows come home, and I’ll still never make up [...]
Support the United States Post Office With Your Own Junk Mail
A Tip From Uncle Mike:
I am sure that you are inundated with continual mail for you to switch credit cards. This and others. Here is what you do.
And, as you know, I always want more than one advantage from what I do.
a. When you receive a junk mail solicitation do [...]
13May2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
My Personal Carbon Footprint
I wanted to find out what my personal contribution to global warming is.
This is called a carbon footprint - a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated and released to the environment. Carbon footprints can be calculated for anything- individuals, products, businesses, industries, communities, countries.
They’re computed either as a “Life Cycle Assessment [...]
Going Paperless: The Post Office Fights Back
The Washington Post reports that the US Postal Service (USPS) says they need junk mail to survive, and are working to thwart legislator’s proposals that would allow consumers to set up blocks on unwanted mail.
The USPS says the economic benefits of standard - their term for junk- mail outweigh the environmental benefits, and claim [...]
How Long Could You Go Without Buying Something New?
I can’t buy my free range chicken hot dogs used, but what about everything else?
Would it be that hard? Wouldn’t one of the the golden rules of a sustainable planet be to make less garbage-? I have nightmares of floating around in the ocean surrounded by big white trash bags.
I found this on [...]
Shall I Take the Hummer or the Bicycle?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (AS) directly challenged Rajendra K. Pachauri, the head of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), and it wasn’t pretty.
“Going Green Can be Fun” said the governor, at a recently held climate change conference at Yale University. Stating that he “isn’t about to give up his jacuzzi, [...]
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