Save to del.icio.us — tags green house energy windows Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/30/this-green-old-house-windows-farmhouse-energy/”; Introducing This Green Old House – An ongoing column by James Turner Greetings, and welcome to This Green Old House! My name is James Turner and over the next months (and maybe years), I hope to share with you some [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags globalwarming polls environment Add to Stumbleupon A recent Poll by Gallup and Yale University is suggesting that the attitude of Americans toward Global Warming is changing — and changing fast. digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/27/poll-on-global-warming/”; For example: 72% are either ‘Completely Convinced’ or ‘Mostly Convinced’ that “global warming is happening”. 69% are [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags organic food environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/25/is-organic-too-expensive-how-much-is-organic-worth/”; Let’s Face it. Organic is Expensive. When I marketed Organic food to few consumers, they nodded in agreement about the goodness and health benefits. But the one question that I squirmed at was, “I heard its expensive, what’s the difference?”. At [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags technology greenIT toread environment Add to Stumbleupon (From Kevin — We are proud to launch a new feature today on 21st Century Citizen: Tech Tuesday! Please welcome Matt Murphy!) About Me I ‘discovered’ 21st Century Citizen via Twitter. That, perhaps, is a good indication of where my interests and background [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags internet howto blogs collaboration wikis Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/24/internet-groups-work-together-howto-collaboration-blogs-wikis/”; One of the primary ways that people are banding together to solve common problems is by using the Internet to collaborate with others. Whether the common problems they faces are around the world or down the block, there are [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags food peanutbutter environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/07/01/how-peanut-butter-helps-the-planet/”; One of the daily decisions we all face is what to eat. How do we eat well and in a way that’s good for the environment — and at the same time have meals that are easy to fix and taste [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags quotes inspiration environment green photo Add to Stumbleupon We can all envision the world as a better place. Each of us can imagine a better life — better government, better living habits, better environment. We can all imagine these — but can we make them real? “When you do nothing, [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags organic books gardening toread environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/16/organic-food-growing-farming-acriculture-silent-spring-ddt/”; It’s Sunday night and I’m on my laptop to begin this passionate subject – Organics! My mind was whizzing with random topics and bits of information to write on this column. I realized then that the best way to [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags bicycling, environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/14/how-to-commute-by-bicycle-bicycling-good-bikes-for-commuting”; With the rise of oil prices and the growing ‘green’ movement, people everywhere are evaluating commuting to work by bicycle. And based on the response to our recent post “Choices: Bike or Drive?”, many of our readers are interested in commuting by [...]
Here’s a great youtube video that shows a comparison between regular light bulbs, Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs and newer, super efficient LED light bulbs. Based on comments left on the site, I know that our readers are interested in learning more on LED Light bulbs. This video provides a very simple comparison that’s easy [...]
