Green Festival News The Green Festival just wrapped up in San Francisco, and Wired covered it. Thanks to Jason at GreenBusiness.net for pointing this one out…
Fair Trade for Thanksgiving A great idea from Co-op America: make the busiest grocery shopping day before Thanksgiving a day of action to raise awareness of Fair Trade.
Solar Energy Rocks At least Carlos Santana thinks so. Carlos and his wife Deborah have “outfitted their Bay Area business headquarters with a solar-powered energy system meeting all the electrical [ … ]
Interactivate with Ray Anderson Grist‘s Interactivist this week isRay Anderson, founder and chair of Interface, Inc. There’s still time to get you questions in — they’re accepting reader questions until [ … ]
Zero-Energy Homes From Wired via Buzzflash, a story about California homes (lots of them) that through a combination of energy-efficiency and solar production, produce as much energy as they consume.
Continuing the conversation… I received the following email from Grist this morning urging those of us in the academic community to pick up on the “much-needed” conversation on the future [ … ]
The Company We Keep Thanks to leftish from DailyKos for giving Sustainablog a plug, along with Howling, Worldchanging and Gristmill.
Clean Power Estimator My wife and I have been discussing building a “green” house some time in the next few years. When we get there, I’ll certainly make use of [ … ]
Green Building cotillion At least, that’s how Canopy LLC, a company “which finds and distributes… green materials, sees it: they’re planning on “coming out,” or formally introducing their services, at [ … ]
Green Forests (as opposed to “Healthy Forests”) A story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on the steps small foresters are taking to receive the prestigious (and pricey, apparently) Forest Stewardship Council [ … ]
The environmental agenda… of the second Bush administration will provide a “free-market tilt” to environmental regulation, according to this article from the New York Times. I find this kind of [ … ]
The Death of Environmentalism? Is that what last week’s election foreshadows? Probably not, but Joel Makower’s review of the paper ‘The Death of Environmentalism’ shows that the movement is being [ … ]
Kyoto-a-Go-Go Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the Kyoto treaty, meaning that it goes into effect for the 126 signing nations ninety days after the Russians submit their UN paperwork. [ … ]