Find out more about One/Change. How to make an at home indoor compost bin that DOESN’T stink. When my husband, Ariah, asked me if I wouldn’t mind trying to compost inside our apartment I had some visions of sharing our apartment with overgrown, slimy, yucky little critters. I envisioned dirt everywhere and a huge mess [...]
I walk out my backdoor 32 steps, past the shed that Mike built, past the forsythia that is starting to bloom to my15 year old compost bin in the back corner of our yard. I dump the little bucket-full of grapefruit rind, banana peels and coffee grounds on top of the decomposing leaves and know [...]
Happy Earth Day to all! I have chosen this wonderful day to kick off the first annual Challenge of Late Spring. Sound interesting? Sound fun? Sound like something you would love to do? YES! YES! YES! Well, let me first take a moment to tell you a little about this exciting Challenge. Spring is a [...]
You finally get that global warming is a HUGE problem. You get that we all need to become A LOT less dependent on oil. You get that we need to start buying products that are made in an environmentally friendly way and using sustainable resources. Now that you get it you don’t want to hear [...]
Cape Wind, a proposed wind farm off of Cape Cod, has been getting a lot of attention in the “green” world and is now getting even more since the future of the project is being threatened. Cape Wind would be the United States’ first offshore wind farm and the energy produced by this farm would [...]
About a month ago I wrote a post titled Al Gore and Global Warming in which I discussed Davis Guggenheim’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, staring Al Gore. I just finished watching the trailer for it and I am now more excited than ever to see the movie. It is scheduled for limited release on May [...]
It seems that lately there has been so much talk in the “regular world” about the environment. Most days there is at least one segment on National Public Radio (NPR) or more specifically, Chicago Public Radio, that has to do with the environment. TIME magazine focused their April 3, 2006 issue on Global Warming. In [...]
How dedicated are you to conserving water? Would you be willing to resuse water with a Toilet Lid Sink? It’s clean water of course because what good would it do to wash your hands in dirty dirty water. With each flush of your commode, clean water that would otherwise go straight down the toilet is [...]
Recently a friend of mine was asked by a maximum security prison if she would help them start an organic farm that would be located within the walls of the prison. The inmates would grow and eat their own food and give the left over food away. As part of this project she wanted the [...]
Chevrolet has started a contest for the all new 2007 Chevy Tahoe. The challenge goes as follows: The all new 2007 Chevy Tahoe is more capable, more responsible, and more refined. Now, you?re the director and it?s your job to communicate this message by creating the best Tahoe online commercial for your chance to win. [...]