Here’s the first installment of the Blog Carnival of Green Living! We have some great posts from a great group of blogs that are the perfect way to kick off the first edition of the Carnival of Green Living –
I’m pretty excited because this batch of posts contains some of my favorite blogs […]
Here are a few nuggets panned from the RSS River of News:
Green thinkers has a good post on a product that helps people become more conscious of how they use electricity: a plug-in device that changes color when electricity rates change. It only works in New York now, but the idea seems sure to spread.
The […]
Why is it important to take action? And how big does the action have to be before it makes a difference?
Taking action is hard. It’s an additional activity on top of your already-too-busy daily schedule. How can you find time to change the world when you barely have time to get to work and […]
Tomorrow we’ll host the first Carnival of Green Living here at 21st Century Citizen, and I have to tell you we’re pretty excited. We’ve had a great response and over 20 bloggers have submitted posts for us to highlight.
Now, 20 posts is really too many to post all at once - certainly a lot more […]
Highlights from the 100+ feeds we follow:
Realclimate.org has come out with another great post describing why additional CO2 in the atmosphere is a problem. It’s a bit technical, but useful if you’re interested in the science behind global warming.
Continuing a trend I’d like to discuss in more detail sometime, the ‘incentive travel’ company Innovative […]
There’s an opinion piece in the NY Times today that argues against local food production being the most environmentally friendly way to get food to your table.
As regular readers know, this is a subject that’s dear to us here at 21st Century Citizen. We believe that supporting local agriculture has many benefits — including promoting […]
While it’s arguable that the best way to reduce your carbon footprint is to simply consume less, there are many things that people just don’t want to give up. The ability to travel is one of them.
But if you’re going to travel, how do you do so in the most sustainable way? One way […]
“MBDC is a product and process design firm dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services worldwide.”
So reads the self-description of a design firm working with clients to redesign how their products are conceived, created and disposed of.
MBDC was founded by William McDonough and Dr. Michael Braungart in 1995. In 2002, they released their […]
I know many of our regular readers are also bloggers. In fact, one of the best parts of running this blog is getting to meet the other bloggers (even if only over e-mail and comments) and to see some of the great work they’re doing to promote awareness of the environment.
So, to help promote them […]
The University of California today released a blueprint today that will fight global warming by forcing reductions in the amount of carbon released when fuels are burned.
The new “low carbon fuel standard” is expected to be a model for future laws adopted in other states and around the world. The new standard was commissioned in […]
