Cashiers and Baggers - Please Use My Bags!

January 5, 2009

I went to the store a few weeks ago and, as usual, put my reusable bags in front of all the things I was buying. The cashier sent them down to the bagger who promptly bagged them and put them in my cart while I wasn’t looking. next, when I pointed out to him that I brought the bags to put the groceries in he proceeded to put one or two things in each bag.

Of course, at another grocery store on another day, the bagger put as much as he possibly could into the one bag I had with me and apol…

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Fixing the Ghetto and the Environment Together

January 5, 2009

Elizabeth Kolbert’s piece in the New Yorker, Greening the Ghetto, chases Van Jones, the founder and head of Green for All, a environmental group that seeks to fix poverty by using the green economy we keep hearing about. We’ve talked about him before and he’s one of the reasons the term green jobs is familiar to so many folks.

In writing about all things green, I notice a lot of news is from (or about) the world of higher incomes and higher education — Kolbert sites a study from Earthjus…

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PETA Calls Karl Lagerfeld a Dinosaur for Defending Fur

January 5, 2009

Is Karl Lagerfeld a fashion dinosaur? considering of his views regarding fur, PETA thinks so. For a designer who’s so trendy and celebrated in pop fashion, the term dinosaur justdoesn’t seem to fit. When it comes to the world of fashion, Karl is thought of more as a fashion T Rex — because he definitely rules. Although Karl did go on the record recently defending the use of fur in the fashion industry — a seriously unhip PETA no-no.

Apparently, Karl made a few short about fur, mainly ju…

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January’s Green Challenge: Paper Towel Free Household

January 5, 2009

Join the Green Challenge every month and produce one small change to help the environment. Keep us posted on your progress all through the month and keep an eye out for spectacular giveaways.

You’d think that the world stopped spinning when we run out of paper towels in our house. Apparently I’m the only one who knows the secret location of the rags and dish towels. that month I’ve decided to do a little experiment and not replenish our paper towel supply, forcing everyone to be conscient…

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Should Congress Raise the Gas Tax?

January 5, 2009

Now that gas prices have retreated back from the stratosphere back to a very comfortable (sigh of relief) average of $1.60 nationwide — is it instance for policy makers to initiate a gas tax hike? Before you get too worked up, just let me say that that isn’t my notion. A columnist at Forbes.com is arguing that a $1 hike in gas taxes could cut fuel consumption, increase demand for fuel-efficient vehicles, and net the federal government $137B that be used on transportation infrastructure. And…

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Roads Could Generate Electricity from Passing Cars

January 5, 2009

Green Daily recently talked about a Portland gym that generates power from fitness folks peddling their stationary bikes. Now comes news about a road that does more than get us place to place. The concept, developed in Israel, is a road surface that has thousands of little piezoelectric crystals that generate electricity when cars pass by them.

The new technology will be tested on a road in Ireland, a country that is no stranger to trying out new green ideas. A one kilometer road will be fitt…

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Cake’s New Album Goes Solar

January 5, 2009

Alternative rock band, Cake, will be producing its latest album using solar power. The roof of their Sacramento studio is covered in solar panels. Trumpet player Vince DiFiore estimates that the band only uses 10% of the energy generated during rehearsals which sends the excess back into the grid. The band used Borrego Solar Systems to convert their studio.

Solar ability is only one small step the band has taken to curb their environmental impact. John McCrea has been known to give away trees…

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