Green Archive

Product of the Day 3/07/08

Brano Meres, an engineer in Slovakia has developed a method of creating mountain bike frames out of bamboo!  This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time and resonates with the ‘Green Monster’ in me.

Please visit his site for full details, LINK

I know, it’s not always easy to be environmentally conscious. So many things can get in the way. Just trying to keep even with the world we’ve created, let alone get ahead, can take up more time than seems reasonable in many cases.
But there are a few things that even the most […]

Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day. An initiative to bind the blogging community together for one day on one topic. Today thousands of bloggers will post articles that relate to environmental issues in an effort to get people talking about a better future not only for ourselves, but for our children […]

Global Warming - The Game

One of my favorite game franchises, SimCity, has added a module which takes into account the effects of carbon dioxide. Building a city and ignoring the issue will lead to elevated levels of greenhouse gasses and your carefully laid out cities will start to die off.
Players can take the path less chosen and build cities […]

Rent-A-Goat
I think it was my sister Erin who mentioned to me a couple of years ago that she wanted to start (or maybe just find) a rent-a-goat business. The idea was that since they’ll eat just about anything you could use them for brush clearing, lawn mowing, etc. It appears that someone here […]