Archive for the ‘Carbon Footprint’ Category

Save the world one cow at a time

Posted on September 19, 2008 - Categories: Carbon Footprint, Website News

This isn’t meant to be a long or informative post, just want to remind the world that I’m still here and active again.  I’ll be sharing my green thoughts with you but my interests aren’t in the bleeding edge green energy technology.  I hope you like my additions to hippygreen. A cow can only provide [...]

US Engery Usage

Posted on July 21, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint

I love when readers submit stories and I received an email this morning from Fred who writes: Check out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and more down to [...]

Think Carbon

Posted on July 21, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint

Today is a great day to rethink your carbon foot print. I have posted previously about your carbon foot print and gave ideas, but here is a way to take the Low Carbon Diet. Yes, you can work on your Body&Soul by lowering your footprint! Now the article is from the UK, so if your [...]

Wake up Bush, New Jersey is bypassing your bills!

Posted on July 9, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint, Green News

The past friday Goveneror of New Jersey, Jon Corzine (D) signed a bill to bypass the Bush administration and passed the Global Warming Response Act, which requires teh cut of greenhouse gases in New Jersey by 16 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. Other states are joining in on hitting the goal of [...]

Google is going Carbon Neutral

Posted on June 26, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint, Green Business

In case you missed the green news of google, Google is going solar and will continue with this path towards green by going carbon neutral by the end of 2007! In order to do this Google is committed to invest in a new green ideas (listen up BUSH!). Google will be creating an additional 50 [...]

Inkjets—Saving the Environment and Animals

Posted on June 25, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint, Green Business

Amanda over at PetSmart Charities recently emailed Hippy Green and wanted to spread the word on how readers can help animals by donating ink cartridges. Most of us use printer cartridges pretty frequently. Well those cartridges cannot only help the environment but animals as well. PetSmart Charities is trying to help save the lives of [...]

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Posted on May 7, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint

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? [...]

20 Tips to Reduce Your Home’s Carbon Footprint

Posted on May 6, 2007 - Categories: Carbon Footprint

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 [...]

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