Archive for August, 2007
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has got a lot of cleaning up to do.
Recently, Walmart has been pushing a wide range of ‘green’ initiatives. They’ve been focusing on the environment very big, very public way.
One of their biggest initiatives is their effort to sell 100 Million Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs — one for each of their […]
August 27th, 2007 | Posted in Recycle, Citizen Journalism | 22 Comments
Social Media sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Twitter (among others) have dramatically changed how readers find and discuss our website. I thought it would be interesting to talk about this a bit and show the rest of our readers how different people discuss our posts using these different sites.
As an example, let’s look at reader […]
August 24th, 2007 | Posted in About the Site, Citizen Journalism | 7 Comments
A new study was released today that revealed some interesting trends among Americans.
According to the study, 87% — or “the vast majority” — of Americans are now “seriously concerned about the environment“.
This demonstrates what many of us in the ‘green blogosphere’ have known for a while — that there are radical changes underway right […]
August 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Role of Government, Shared Values, Societal Values | 6 Comments
Here’s the third installment of the Blog Carnival of Green Living! As usual, we have some great blog posts for your reading pleasure — and you might learn something too!
One of the common threads in this week’s set of articles is a topic that I think is under-served both the corporate media as […]
August 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Carnival of Green Living | 5 Comments
When we launched the Carnival of Green Living, we had no idea that we’d get so many excellent writers submitting articles. In fact, we’ve been a bit overwhelmed — which, of course, is a good thing.
Given this response, we’ve decided to change the carnival from twice a month to weekly. We’re still getting a regular […]
August 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Carnival of Green Living | No Comments
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Greenpeace has released a new YouTube video today focused on climate change. It’s an interesting film in which 600 people strip naked and lay beside a glacier to protest climate change.
It’s just one more instance where people are moving ahead of governments and speaking out. The governments won’t […]
August 21st, 2007 | Posted in Video, Shared Values, Personal Values, Uncategorized | 5 Comments
Sometimes readers send me links. I think it’s great because I get to know what interests people. Here are some recent ones:
Our twitter follower bythebayou @replied me a link to Co-op America. They look interesting — I like that they encourage people to take action.
Another twitter follower monkchips, sent this link on saving energy […]
August 16th, 2007 | Posted in Role of Government, Water, Citizen Journalism, Energy | 3 Comments
I have this crazy uncle. I don’t want to say his name, but suffice to say that he works in software in a suburban community.
He has some crazy ideas sometimes. But he’s pretty smart. He’s always got his fingers in a lot of pies - he seems to follow everything.
Like one time a few years […]
August 16th, 2007 | Posted in My Uncle | 2 Comments
And we’ve never been on the front page of Digg.
It’s our story on How to Clean up a Broken Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulb.
Related PostsCommenting on our siteI’ve noticed that as we gain more and more regular readers, commenting has been increasing on the si…How to Talk to Kids about Global Warming and Environmental Issues […]
August 15th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Here’s the second installment of the Blog Carnival of Green Living! We have some really nice posts from a great group of blogs that are the perfect follow-up to our blockbuster first edition!
The first entry this week comes from one of my favorite green blogs, Lighter Footsteps. Their focus is on the individual and […]
August 15th, 2007 | Posted in Carnival of Green Living | 3 Comments