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Save to del.icio.us — tags freecycle recycle environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/13/a-simple-step-to-take-join-freecycle-recycle-2/”; About ‘freecycling’ and The Freecycle Network Freeycling is a worldwide grassroots movement of people banding together to recycle items by giving them away for free. While there are a number of different freecycling groups around the world, the largest and oldest [...]
October 13th, 2007 | Posted in Environment, Personal Values, Recycle, Simple Steps, Uncategorized | 7 Comments
digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/05/remember-beauty/”; It’s easy when discussing all the problems in our world to forget how beautiful and wonderful this world is. All around us is a natural beauty that’s there, waiting for us to stumble over it at almost every turn. As you go through your next few days, try to remember this: There [...]
October 5th, 2007 | Posted in Citizen Journalism, Fun, Image of the Week, Photoset, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Save to del.icio.us — tags water environment carbon savings Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/03/a-simple-step-you-can-take-install-a-low-flow-shower-head-save-water-money-carbon/”; If you’re like most Americans, you probably take a shower every day. Unless you’re already using a low-flow shower head, you have an opportunity to save some money in addition to cutting back on your family’s environmental impact. Low Flow [...]
October 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Environment, Reduce, Simple Steps, Uncategorized, Water | 12 Comments
Save to del.icio.us — tags environment motivation change toread Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/03/the-power-of-young-people-to-change-the-world-global-warming-environment/”; It surprises me how many people believe that their individual actions make no difference to the world. In a recent poll on this site, 45% felt that their personal actions “make no difference” with respect to Global Warming. (Of course, [...]
October 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Personal Values, Role of Government, Shared Values, Uncategorized | 32 Comments
Save to del.icio.us — tags energy blackgoogle greenIT environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/02/black-is-the-new-green-10-energy-saving-search-sites-black-google-blackgoogle/”; Black is the New Green. At least, that’s the message of a movement sometimes referred to as Black Google. The idea first appeared in a January 20th blog post by Mark Ontkush, where he examines how much energy could potentially [...]
October 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Environment, Fun, Global Warming, Reduce, Simple Steps, Uncategorized | 34 Comments
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 [...]
September 21st, 2007 | Posted in Choices, Environment, Quick Bits, Simple Steps, Uncategorized, What to Eat | 15 Comments
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, [...]
September 20th, 2007 | Posted in Citizen Journalism, Environment, Image of the Week, Quick Bits, Simple Steps, Societal Values, Uncategorized | 9 Comments
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Love XOXO, originally uploaded by Pink Sherbet Photography. A lot of the time blogging (and reading) about environmental issues and global climate change can be depressing. So let’s lighten up today [...]
September 7th, 2007 | Posted in Image of the Week, Simple Steps, Uncategorized | 6 Comments
Our world is changing. The results of our consumption and over-population of the planet are being felt in many ways — and one the most dramatic and dangerous is that our world is getting warmer. For example, one way to tell is that glaciers all over the world are melting… While many of them have [...]
September 5th, 2007 | Posted in Citizen Journalism, Environment, Global Warming, Photoset, Societal Values, Uncategorized | 7 Comments
digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/07/23/a-simple-step-you-can-take-eat-more-locally-grown-food”; 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 respond until the [...]
August 21st, 2007 | Posted in Personal Values, Shared Values, Uncategorized, Video | 5 Comments
