sustainy.com

This story in the New York Times may have you thinking twice.
“Buying offsets is a nice idea, just like giving money to a soup kitchen is a nice idea, but that doesn’t end world hunger,” said Anja Kollmuss, a staff scientist for the Stockholm Environment Institute who is based at a branch at Tufts University.
“Buying [...]

Share/Save

The o9′ London G20 Summit was the first big showdown of global leaders starring our beloved new President,  Barrack Obama and his fashionable wife Michelle.  The usual diplomatic jargon was peppered with top level ass grabs, fashion forward lingerie models, and from what I saw first hand; thousands of protesters with signs like ‘We Won’t [...]

Beer and Sun are two things that go hand in hand with the summer.  Summer BBQs, ballgames, and trips to the beach usually involve both.  So, we’re excited about an improvement to near perfect union of the two.
Enter the 2009 Craft Lager Festival, a beer fest entirely fueled by the summer sun.   The [...]

I saw Food, Inc. last night, which Moya wrote about a while ago. Damn. It is one seriously powerful film, and impossible to ignore. I cannot imagine it not changing the way you think about, buy, and eat food. Some of the information I knew already and am already a healthy eater (no high-fructose corn [...]

Toyota is really hyping solar panels in the new Prius.  A monster marketing spend on TV (I don’t even watch commercials and I’ve seen their newest) seems to be the tip of the iceberg.  They also have created a series of solar powered “flowers” to be displayed around the country.  Currently sitting in a pedestrian [...]

Nuclear energy may not be so bad after all.  That’s right.  As we wait for water, solar, and wind industries to take advantage of their recent growth opportunities and achieve necessary mass-output requirements; perhaps we should revisit our present situation.  This would be burning coal in the multi-billions of tons, and it all has to [...]

It’s hard to sit though a documentary about how our food is made with a box of popcorn and nachos sitting in your lap, trust me, but somehow ‘Food, Inc.’, released July 09′ has managed to strike a well-balanced chord that’s easy to swallow.  After ‘Super Size Me’ made “what’s-wrong-with-our-food-documentaries” cool;  production wallets have opened [...]

It’s appropriate that I am sitting in Seattle, the home to the flagship store of one of the most environmentally conscious and active retailers, as I post.  In a pretty impressive mail sent out to REI members yesterday, the company has taken it upon themselves to get to zero waste to landfill by the year [...]

When I think of pro baseball games, my first thoughts usually revolve around juicy dogs, tall brewskies and looking out onto that overly watered open field.  Low flow toilets, recycling initiatives and vegetative roofs don’t usually pop into my head; but that’s all changing.  Apparently several big league teams have adopted major changes if not [...]