Yes, you heard right, the Vatican is going solar! The Paul VI audience hall will be installing 1,000 solar panels to power the entire heat,cooling,lighting of the entire building YEAR AROUND! The extra power will be fed back to the Vatican grid. This is great news for Catholics around the world and I hope to [...]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has given orders to have every taxi in New York City will be a hybrid by 2012. This is great news that a city with this much traffic is leaning towards going green. Currently there are about 13,000 licensed taxis and only 375 of them are hybrids. Seeing these numbers it almost [...]

Yes, it’s that easy to recycle your computer equipment. Starting today grab your old monitor, computer, laptop, keyboard, and similar other computer devices and drive over to the local Staples. For a small $10 fee on large items, you can drop off your old computer equipment at any US or Canada Staples and have them [...]

Sarnia, Ontario will be the future site of the largest solar installation in North America. This solar installation will be a 40 megawatt field of panels. This installation will not be the largest solar installation in the world, currently Germany is building their own 40 megawatt solar farm. The solar farm in Canada, OptiSolar Farms [...]

It seems everyday that I receive a Don’t Pump Gas Email so the major Gasoline Companies can feel a hit, but its a short run experiment. It’s a 1 day event that will NOT have an impact on major companies, if anything it will hurt the little mom and pop gas stops. These gas stops [...]

Hippy Green wants to make this blog a crowdsourcing blog rather then a standard wordpress blog. We are looking for writers as well as researchers. If you are interested in writing for us, please Contact Us with your article and if it looks good we will post! We are not giving away money (yet!) but [...]

Continuing with yesterdays post on 20 tips to reduc your home’s carbon footprint, here is another ways to reduce your footprint. Most peoples carbon footprint comes from their car. Daily driving of combustion engines continues to grow our carbon footprint. Planning your trips and cutting down on travel can lower your carbon footprint (sounds easy? [...]

I have started to realize that people have been tagging websites with hippygreen on del.icio.us. I figured I need to start using them in some of the blogs and get more people to post links to del.icio.us with the tag hippygreen. I got this link from Steve Cavrak via kyero. They posted 20 tips to [...]

Buying rechargeable batteries helps the environment as well as doesn’t leave you stuck in a blackout with a flash light and dead batteries. For the past couple of years I find myself either buying rechargeable batteries for all the little electronic gadgets I own. I feel as if this way I will never have to [...]

It looks like Apple has been getting a lot of flak over the issue of proper disposal of toxic chemicals that are part of their products. Apple normally only speaks of their doing as it happens and not tell of a bright future of all these various products that they are working on. Apple recently [...]