Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican Member of Congress who’s running for President, vows she’ll cripple the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency if she’s elected. Maybe if she spent a week in China like I recently did, she’d change her mind. I’ve just returned from a seven-day trip to Beijing, China’s capital, and Xi’an, the country’s cultural […]
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I’m Heading for China…
Is China a beacon of the environmental future – or a reminder of its past? What are we to think, when in the same conversation, we hear that the country is building one new coal plant a week – at the same time that it is churning out wind turbines faster than any other country […]
Green Back-to-School Supplies: Part 1 – Pens, Pencils, Crayons, Markers
709viewsKids eat crayons. They chew on pencils. They sniff markers. And pens? Sure, kids use them for writing – on their skin, not necessarily paper. In other words, as weird as it may sound, you need to treat the tools kids use to compose or color the same way you’d treat the food they eat: […]
My test-drive of the all-electric Nissan Leaf – On a scale of One to Ten, I give it a …
Solid Nine. And that’s saying a lot, considering that most cars would probably average only a 3 or a 4. What’s so great about the Leaf? I had a chance to find out earlier this week when I stopped by the Nissan Leaf road show as it passed through my county. The Leaf is […]
Shopping for Eco-Friendly Clothes, Part 3: Choose Hemp
Part 1 of this series suggested you read the label and look for specific certifications that indicate clothes were made to reduce their environmental impact. Part 2 noted you could make it easy to buy greener fashions by choosing Tencel and Lyocell, fibers woven from natural cellulose. In the last of our three-part series, we’re […]
6 Ways To Beat Mosquitos. #1 – Don’t Zap ‘Em, Trap ‘Em
Do you hate mosquitos? Who doesn’t? But just hating them won’t make them go away. One way to keep them at bay is to use a good but non-toxic to humans repellent; I list some options below. But it also helps to trap them, which is why I want you to know about a […]
Have you taken the “Buy Local” challenge?
Want to show your support for environmentally friendly, locally grown food? Yes, you can eat it! You can also take the “Buy Local” challenge, a campaign to get shoppers to eat locally grown food every day from July 23-31. Here are a few reasons why buying and eating locally grown food is so important. Here’s […]
It’s World Population Day. Or is that, “Over” Population Day?
This year, the number of people living on the earth will amount to 7,000,000,000. That’s seven billion, more than at any other time in the history of human kind. To say that we’re taking an environmental toll would be an understatement. Natural resources have never seemed so scarce. Every time anyone anywhere in the world […]