Anyone heart the African tree heart?

I can’t make up my mind about this charity/organization/site/whatever called Tree-Nation. Basically they are trying to fight desertification in Niger by planting 8 million trees.. in the shape of a heart. Like a big green heart on the African map. In theory this is a good idea (minus the heart shape) as far as I [...]

Ethics 101: The stem cell debate

I know next to nothing about stem cell research or why it is such a hot topic for some folks. I did some research and put together this quick summary. Maybe it will help anyone else like me get a 1 minute overview. Knowing is half the battle. Apparently the other half of the battle [...]

My new official beer!

In our consumer culture we are taught that brand loyalty is important. Since forever now my brand of beer has been Guinness. It’s the type of beer that if you like it, you love it, and I love it. By nature I am of course inclined to broaden my horizons and try other beers on [...]

Inuit far more inconvenienced than you are

A lot of people complain about how all this environmental hype is just inconvenient. It’s too hard to recycle a bit or not drive a gas guzzling car to look cool. Maybe those complainers could try having their whole bloody village sink? I’m almost certain that village sinking trumps having to find a new ego [...]

Voldemort is a lumberjack and Jesus hates him

It’s almost that magical season again. The time of year when the minority group of Americans that can read scoop up the latest Harry Potter novel. I’m not really much of a fan myself, but the popularity of the series makes it a cultural staple. Here are some interesting aspects of the Harry Potter books [...]

Bottled water is a bitch!

Over at Triple Pundit they have this guy, Pablo, who is a sustainability engineer. Pablo has a regular column, “Ask Pablo” where he takes submitted questions about every day items and calculates out their true cost or impact. His articles are fantastic at showing the full picture of items, he really is brilliant. Anyways, this [...]

Add another greeny site to the heap

There is certainly no shortage of environmentally themed web sites out there, and more every day. Today http://www.greenoptions.com joined the mix. If you visit a lot of these sites daily like I do you sometimes can’t tell them apart. It is only the first day for Green Options though and they already have a few [...]

How can a tiny change still matter?

It can be tough to wrap your head around why it matters to make tiny and seemingly pointless changes in our lives in the name of the global good. How can a small change on your part actually matter in the big picture? The short answer is of course, volume. However, here is a really [...]

NFL plants 3000 trees in Florida

The NFL wanted to claim that the Superbowl was carbon neutral, so they are planting 3000 native mangrove trees in Florida. Critics are saying that this doesn’t actually make the event carbon neutral, but I personally am just shocked that they even thought to do it. I can’t bring myself to criticize that effort, even [...]

Exxon now hiring naysayers, apply within!

As we all know, the IPCC report is out and it states just how jacked up the climate is. All the analysis of the report seems to confirm that the 2500+ experts, 800 contributing authors and 450 lead authors from 130 countries do in fact have a clue.
The only news from the denier front are [...]