Social media and blogging have caught on like wildfire in political campaigns: over the last few election cycles, we’ve seen candidates for all levels of office taking advantage of web-based [ … ]
Tag: green
Last-Minute Environmentally-Friendly Gifts: a Meta-Guide
Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmiehomeschoolmom/ / CC BY 2.0 If you’re anything like me, crunch-time shopping is an annual ritual: despite ample warnings starting in October, the holidays just seem to sneak [ … ]
Checking Out the Treasure Island Music Festival Green Flavor
It’s getting to be almost a cliché here in San Francisco with large music festivals that have either a green backbone or a heck of lot of social justice behind [ … ]
Book Review: LESS IS MORE (Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet)
As millions of Americans are finding themselves waking up with less disposable income, fewer job prospects, less income thanks for forced furloughs or lost value in their 401(k)s, some are [ … ]
Renewing the Countryside: Five Reasons Why the Next Generation Can Revitalize Rural America
Talk about a recipe for potential disaster. Combine a down economy, changing agriculture practices, rising unemployment and the end result looks grim. But here’s the secret ingredient revitalizing and greening [ … ]
Bonnaroo: The (Greener) Summer Music Festival
In just seven years the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has emerged as the premier music festival in the United States, if not the world. With the biggest names in [ … ]
Are You In ‘The Gort Cloud’? A Book Review
(click to expand) The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands by Richard Seireeni with Scott Fields 240 pp. Chelsea Green It is like what Van [ … ]
Low Impact Living: New Green Products That Save You Money
One of the great things about many green products is that they’ll actually save you money, sometimes over the long term (solar panels), but sometimes almost immediately (CFLs). In this [ … ]
Shopping for the Green and Local – Online
GenGreenLife, National Geographic Green Guide and EVO.com partner to form new online portal to green products and services Looking for a carpet cleaner that doesn’t use all kinds of dangerous [ … ]
How to “Winterize” Your Bicycle!
For many of us who take environmental protection into our own hands daily, a bicycle is an indispensible part of the dream. Throw off those winter blues… bicycling can make [ … ]
ZapRoot: Killing Bambi for Your Salad
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/U3TeCgyTiaI&hl=en&fs=1] From our friends at ZapRoot: Farmers take it to the extreme to protect their crops. The Auto Alliance has jump on the green bandwagon. These Guys are Full of [ … ]
Ten (More) Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
Blogging, social news, peer-to-peer philanthropy, microblogging, social networking, wikis, video sharing, and more. These are the new agents of change. Back in May, we penned the original 10 Ways to [ … ]
Carnival of the Green #148
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends We’re so glad you could attend Come inside! Come inside! — Emerson, Lake and Palmer, “Karn Evil 9 – 1st [ … ]