Posted on March 15, 2007 by Shawn
By now everyone has heard that industrial hemp is a miracle crop and could solve a lot of problems. If only we weren’t biased against it as a crop. For kicks I gathered together this quick list of industrial hemp benefits that I plagiarized almost wholesale from the hempcar.org site. Not marijuana, but hemp - [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2007 by Shawn
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 [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2007 by Shawn
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 [...]
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