Archive for the ‘Green News’ Category
Green Business is BOOMING! But is it really?
It seems everyone and their mom is jumping on the “green scene” trying to be “social responsible”, “organic”, and “environmental”. It just amazes me how much we have changed in the past couple of years, but then again we had help. (Thanks Al!) Anyway, I was reading an interest article on small biz trends dot [...]
An Alternative Thinking to a Night at the Movies
If your are in the phoenix metro area and are thinking green, you should stop by and watch the feature film, “WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?”. Its a great movie and there will be a gathering of others who want a change. I will not make it tonight, but maybe the other dates. Heres is [...]
Going Green Without Going Red
As most of you know I have moved to Arizona and have been enjoying the “hippy” style out here with my prius. I have recently been shopping at Wild Oats and Whole Foods. Well tonight it finally hit me, how much more it costs for staying organic or even trying to buy products that have [...]
Reducing My Paper Footprint
It seems with every new account I open along with the piles of junk mail I receive, there is always a lot of wasted paper. I have been meaning and trying to reduce my paper trail. I find it hard enough to shred all these documents that contain personal information about me as well as [...]
NY Tech Meetup Going Green?
Tonight at the NY Tech Meetup the meeting changed its agenda, instead of a couple of presentations getting 5 minutes, it was an unstructured conference. There were 20 topics that was chosen by raising hand and calling them out. After the topics were picked, you broke off into areas where the 20 groups meet to [...]
Wake up Bush, New Jersey is bypassing your bills!
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 [...]
Party like there IS a tomorrow!
I was recently contacted by Christina, who is setting up GreenFestPhilly to help spread the world. I am not sure yet if I will be around that weekend, but if so I think I might come on down. Anyway, here are some short and sweet details about GreenFestPhilly. GreenFestPhilly, a subsidiary of Urban Green Partnership, [...]
Where does all the ewaste go?
Being a Geek Guru I buy lots of electronics and prolly properly dispose of even more. This past weekend I had lots of BBQs and helped my mom move lots of her “stuff” from her house to the curb. Each year the town sponsors a day for any person to throw out almost any and [...]
Travel Greener around the Hudson in NYC
One of the popular tourist attraction is the Circle Line boat that laps the waters around NYC. The Circle Line aka a 3 hour tour, serves as a ferry that shows off the status of liberty as well as ellis island. Circle Line has unveiled their solar/wind power hybrid electric ferry. It looks pretty futuristic [...]
And God Said, Let There Be Light, and The Vatican used it as Power
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 [...]
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