Hippy Green

Although I am getting more and more emails about starting this blog backup again, I just do not know if I have the time to dedicate to this project. I feel like I was Green before it was popular and missed the boat by being too early.

Anyway, If you are really interested in this news and want to help out please contact me and I will look into revamping/building this whole site. I have plenty of ideas, but looking for a partner in crime and/or possible guest writes. So if your interested, please contact us.

I have posted a side note about Hippy Green going more of eBooks and timeless articles, but I wanted to hear from my readers WHY you enjoy going to this site. I can not compete with hugg.com or treehugger.com who have plenty of writers or “user” submitters, but I do want to push this idea of Green using technology.

The past month I have been thinking a lot about what to do with this site, either continue posting some stories, hoping to get dugg/stumple upon or just change it completely to articles on HOW to go green as well as REAL information that about Tax write offs for alternative fuels.

So rather then keep you in the dark and not post as much, I want to see if anyone out there has an idea or wants to work with me on pushing green technology. Do readers want a ebook from Hippy Green, do you want interesting articles that I find and write about, How can I make this site more enjoyable (other then the obvious of posting more daily content).

Please comment below what you enjoy about hipppy green and How I can make this blog/site better for my “current” readers.

Update: Check out my Eath Day 2008 post on John Murch dot com.

Photo by khalid-almasoud

I am always blown away by how people say the “technology” has been the problem with GREEN. Didn’t you see that movie? with Al Gore?

Well for those not paying attention to their RSS feeds, ecogeek posted an interesting story about Porsche. Porsche the well know German car company built a car with in-wheel electric motors with an onboard gas engine to charge batteries more then 100 years ago! The in-wheel motor is pure genius and is something that I would like to see on more lightweight electric vehicles. Porsche is featuring this car in Los Angeles’s Auto Show and promoting their “going green”.

I just do NOT get it, why are car manufactures that DUMB! Seriously, wasn’t someone thinking about these types of cars in the 70’s and 80’s when gas was a problem. I also do NOT understand how these soccer moms complain about $4/gallon gas bills while driving their Hummer H2 to hold their “over weight” kids and hold their daily grande low fat upside-down caramel macchiato. UGH!

Well, I am ALWAYS interested in major companies going green and hopefully in the next couple of years we will see these types of technologies being implemented in future vehicles.

On a side note I will be restructuring Hippy Green a bit and focus on ebooks and articles on how to Go Green rather then report on Green articles. I find that I am just reposting the article with my views rather then “creating value”. I want to give my readership something worth reading and offer tips and tricks on how to go green, even on the cheap!

Chris sent me this joke today and I have to post it. It’s a green joke and hopefully spices up your day.

A Harvard, Yale, and University of Vermont graduate enter the mens
room. The graduate of Yale spends 4 minutes aggressively washing his
hands with soap a constantly running water proclaiming “At Yale we
learned to be hygienic”. The Harvard grad then proceeded to quickly
wash his hands using very little water and no paper towels noting “At
Harvard we were taught to conserve resources”. At this point the UVM
graduate finished up, zipped up his pants and headed for the door. On
his way out he quipped “At UVM they taught us not to piss on our
hands.”

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 accounts to banks, credit cards, etc.

So what? Well, I have been moving to paperless with all my bank accounts, credit cards, and even insurances. I even found with USAA I save $50 every 6 months because is saves them money too! Imagine that, they pass along the savings.

Today I was going through my Google Reader and saw iJustine (so hot!) received a solid 300 page bill from AT&T for her iPhone. I was shocked! So after reading this I was l thought, wonder how bad mine WOULD have been. So I logged in and downloaded the PDF of my bill. 55 PAGES!!! Most of the bill shows data transfers, even though its UNLIMITED! WOW!

I find this unbelievable and can only imagine the cost to send out all these bill statements to their customers. I would SUGGEST and/or REQUEST people switch to paperless. Not only are you saving the planet 1 tree at a time, but hey maybe you can convince AT&T (if their WILLING) to pass their savings along to us by not having them kill so many trees and pay LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY ON SHIPPING!!!

You may have noticed a couple of weeks ago, I updated the blogroll with leafygreen.info. Leafygreen.info is a green product review of products. This blog is run by Mike Kivowitz, another tech guy from New Jersey, just like me! So it’s almost funny that these green blogs are popping up on the blogoshere and are being written by 2 guys from dirty Jersey!

So the next time you think New Jersey, whats that smell, just remember the online community is based from here! We are the ones trying to clean it up Jersey as well as the rest of the world.

I also want to give a shot out to Mike, thanks for the contact. Makes me think, maybe we should try and hold a readers meet up in NYC? Anyone up for that?

Blogging is a great way to share your experiences and possibly make money online!. Carl Ocab contacted me last week about Hippy Green and I was blown away. He is only 14 years old, lives in the Philippines and is already making money with his blog. Most 20somethings can’t make money with a blog (me being one of them, ha!)

Anyway, he has a great blog on how to make a side income by blogging. He has some great posts like SEO Tips and why he blogs, which might give you some inspiration to start blogging. He will also give you some great traffic by posting a review. Its great to interact with other bloggers and be part of the blogosphere. I am glad my blog is reaching out across the world. I think his blog is giving me more inspiration to continue blogging and try and stick with a 1 post per day!

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 we will be giving you link backs as well as (possible swag?) in the future, who knows. As for researchers, we are looking for links, anyone can do this! Please tag a website using del.icio.us with the tag hippygreen. We will either link back to the del.icio.us account its coming from, or if you Contact Us we can match it up and give you the credit (link back) you deserive.

Please also feel free to Contact Us with any ideas, news, comments, or just want to say HI!

This article raises some good points. I have only started to grapple with the implications of having CF bulbs in our home. I have to think that the average american is going to toss burnt out CF bulbs in the trash rather than disposing of them properly (if you don’t believe me ask yourself where you throw your alkaline batteries). The batteries in hybrid cars aren’t exactly good for the environment either. Does it make sense to put dangerous materials in the general public’s hands or keep them in the big factories? The latter is easier to regulate but the former allows people to give up very little while significantly reducing their energy footprint.

Via Canada posted by antics

*note* I have started Hippy Green and want to see more come from it. I have been pretty busy with changing my contract work and working on some side projects because of this I am looking for writers to post interesting articles/finds on Hippy Green. This article above is written by antics of tears of fire. I will be changing the template a bit so you can see whos posting the stories, please contact me if you want to write for Hippy Green. (Right now its all for fun, but we might change that to a for profit that gives back to the community.)

Yes, it has been 1 week since Earth Day 2007 and Hippy Green is 1 week old. There have been some great comments, 10 comments in all with 20 entires. Hippy Green has already started to make some money on advertisement along with gain in popularity on technorati. There is still more to come, but I just want to give a shout out and tell everyone to expect much more in the upcoming months. I still have to add a couple more plugins to this blog, but please let me know if you have any suggestions. I want to make Hippy Green a great resource for all things green, from technology to building costs, for any suggestions please email me at the following email: blog (the at symbol) hippygreen period com