Going Green
Green Watch: My Raw Food Adventure
I have been a vegetarian for a while now and think I can be called a “Vegan Lite” because there is very little dairy in my diet. But lately I have been searching for something, some kind of change in my life. It has been very difficult to put my finger on what the little [...]
Green Watch: First Lady Michelle Obama’s Victory Garden
This gives me even more incentive to plant my own garden. Having that much control over the food your family eats is a wonderful thing. Growing organic vegetables and getting to really taste the beauty of the food is nothing less than fantastic. You can grow your own food anywhere from an apartment balcony to [...]
Green Watch: GM say Volt Will Get 230 MPG…
…if that is true, shelling out 40 grand is a no brainer and I’ll eat my previous criticism of GM and the Chevy Volt (I basically called them full of shit). Although, I still believe that $40,000 is too expensive for the average American family to afford without going into serious debt. By Mark Memmott [...]
Green Watch:Clinton Foundation to Build Solar Power Station Near Pakistan Border
Why isn’t the Clinton Foundation doing that here in America? Via: Telegraph.co.uk Clinton Foundation to build solar power station near Pakistan border The Clinton Foundation has agreed to build the world’s largest solar power station close to India’s border with Pakistan, a government minister has confirmed. By Dean Nelson in New Delhi Published: 3:57AM BST [...]
Green Watch: Environmental Moguls & Entrepreneurs: The Vélib’
Via Time.com By PETER GUMBEL From left: Jean-François and Jean-Charles Decaux Denis Rouvre for TIME Paris has a striking new hallmark, as anyone who has visited the city in the past year can attest: thousands of gray bicycles that can be rented for a small fee and dropped off at will at high-tech bike stands [...]
Food Watch: Do You Really Know What You’re Eating?
Did you know that McDonald’s is the largest purchaser of ground beef, potatoes, chicken, pork and apples in this country? So basically there are a hand full of companies that control our food system and the food they are producing may not be in our best interest. Did you know that the United States Government [...]
Green Watch: The Peapod Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV)
Finally, a new vehicle that I can support, something that makes sense to me in our countries effort to be come more energy efficient and more responsible to our earth. The auto industry bailout is supposed to help them retool their industry and to start to focus on innovation and alternative energy instead of concentrating [...]
The Kyoto Treaty
Here is a little story of how scoffing at and being vision-less about the Kyoto Treaty, the Bush Administration and the GOP helped maim this country’s future. They’ve probably set us back 10 years. It is so difficult for me to understand why the GOP can’t and won’t see the future for this country; is [...]
Green Watch: India Awesome for Vegetarian Cuisine
Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting and his latest flick Slumdog Millionaire, talked recently about the experience of filming in India. Besides describing the smell as “humanity, which is our excrement, and saffron, and then excrement again”, Boyle also had some kind things to say about the region’s vegetarian offerings. “If you’re a vegetarian, you could [...]
