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Buying Credits To Offset Your Carbon Emissions?

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 offsets [...]

Bluegrass is Green

I post to you from eight odd thousand feet in the air, nestled in a green mountain box canyon ringed by still snow capped peaks which feeds the ever flowing waterfall in the valley chasm. It is the first of four days of constant music and camping in an idyllic locale. This is the 36th annual [...]

Wait! Don’t donate your body to science!

Ecopod

If you’re really looking to rack up Sustainy points, you can now give back to the bitter end… with a biodegradable coffin!

Nothing puts the celebratory stamp on your life more than a brightly colored, hand-made, recycled paper eco-coffin.  Green burials do cost about the same as your typical lead box, but at least you can [...]

Mimosas for Transparency

Tropicana oranges are dumped in a bin after harvesting

The New York Times worked with Pepsi to highlight a serious challenge facing everyone interested in transparency around waste and carbon emissions within their companies.  In How Green is My Orange?, the writer dives into a case study made public by Pepsi Co, where they took a [...]