A sweepstake that stays crunchy and green in milk

This morning while slaving over a hot cereal bowl to prepare my Peanut Butter Panda Puffs, I noticed that my soy milk had a green cap. Apparently it is a green cap for green energy. Not directly seeing how the cap color was energy I read the box. It seems that Silk soy milk has [...]

Bunnies don’t lie

Today in the theme of this bunny holiday weekend, I present to you a themed example of a little corporate dishonesty. This is a silly example, but I think it illustrates a point. Plus it fits the bunny theme and is even kind of funny.
First, the video:

Now that you have seen the video, you’ll want [...]

FYI all you PG&E customers

If you’re a PG&E (pacific gas & electric) customer, there are several easy options they provide you to green it up some. Assuming you don’t already.
ClimateSmart, a program to generate carbon neutral power is coming soon. For approx $4 more a month you can offset your energy use and contribute to the growth of clean [...]

Plastic bags suck

Back in my day the main celebrity contribution to society was as tabloid filler and dubious role models. The closest any of them got to activism was making the headlines with, “Today in Hollywood several environmental activists were injured when a celebrity accidentally flipped their Ferrari full of cocaine into the crowd.”
The times they are [...]

Voldemort hugs trees

Following up on my previous mention of Raincoast books use of recycled paper here, Scholastic had this to say regarding their paper policies:
Scholastic has been using various types of recycled-content paper for more than seventeen years, whenever it is feasible. In fact, we purchased 72,326,000 pounds of recycled paper in 2004.
In keeping with Scholastic’s long [...]

SwitchPlanet.com - new movie/game/cd swap site

The 2nd R of the famous 7 R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle, reprimand, regurgitate, rock and roll) system is reuse. If you buy a used movie instead of a new one you save the waste of yet another movie disc and case and packaging and so on. Not to mention the dollars. This is where a [...]

Bisphenol A (BPA) - Hype or emerging science?

I struggle to understand how air works, so I certainly can’t easily grasp any medical effects from the leaching of a synthesized chemical compound in my plastic products. However I can google like nobodies business. I dug around and put together this info on Bisphenol A, aka BPA.
What is it?
Bisphenol A is a chemical compound [...]

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 [...]