Being Green More Efficient ain’t Easy There is no doubt that Green is now in vogue–or Vanity Fair–but there is much work to be done that is not quite as fashionable. This month’s article “Waste Not” in The Atlantic highlights the fact that the American energy economy wastes about 55% of the energy it consumes. [...]
They suck your energy! Ya know those little lights that illuminate your house even when everything is off and you are not using an appliance? They are everywhere from your dvd player to your sleeping computer, from your cell phone charger to your microwave. Turns out those lights aren’t so little after all. The good [...]
Not the Kind of Break We Need We Americans are not known for our vacation taking culture. In the summer of 2006, The Conference Board, an independent research group, conducted a study that found that, 60% of those polled had no plans to take a vacation over the next six months. And about 25% of [...]
Because We Need to… Every once in a while, someone so eloquently reminds me of something that I already know: Our environmental problems–and how we tackle them–are simply symptoms of a larger societal and globalized “character flaw” that accompanies the way we have come to live today. But generally we think of character flaws as [...]
Or On My Sidewalk Either As April comes to an end…crazy I know, it seems like a good time to reflect on the new branding of this month as 1 Million Trees Month. What actually happened during this month, in terms of advancing the plan to increase our urban “forest” by 1 million trees? What [...]
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