Team BeauSoleil from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will be entering their solar home in the Solar Decathlon from October 9-13 and October 15-18 in Washington DC. 20 Universities will be participating. (See here to watch videos of all the teams. ) This is the first time any team from the University has entered [...]
September 2009
Check out my Lafe’s natural deodorant Giveaway! Do you smell of body odor? I know. My sister had to tell me that my crystal was not working. So, Lift up your arm and take a whiff. Pleasant or nasty? (You can be the judge on this one.) So what is an Earth lov’in gal or [...]
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. Here is some of green speed link finds of the week. Some are via my email and others are from various reads on the web: Power Management Project May Save Indiana University $500K a Year via Greener Computing: IU invented software that puts some of its computers into deep sleep [...]
Photo by Alex Nelson. See Update below (11/27/2010): Every school year, my kids come to me and ask for school locks. I inevitably buy more locks because I forgot to save the combinations. This year the whole idea of buying new locks just irked me when I was staring at 5 perfectly good locks that [...]
I had the pleasure of podcasting with Dave Kelly, Vice President of Product Developement at Aquascape, Inc., the maker of the RainXchange, explaining the virtues of the Company’s residential and commercial rain harvesting system. To hear the podcast, click the link below. I have been having a ongoing love affair with rainwater harvesting systems ever since I learned [...]
I have been a big supporter of HealthyToys.org for a couple of years, who brought to light what chemicals were lurking in our children’s toys. In 2007, they tested a multitude of toys and created a list of safe and not so safe toys. How can we forget the China lead scare? Over the [...]
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I received in my inbox a PR notice about AirCut, a hair trimmer with a vacuum bag. To be honest, I did not really read the entire email because I wasn’t sure why this item would be considered green. Many times I receive PR releases about products that just plain upset me because the person [...]
Photo by Hobvias Sudoneighm. Just saying that I turned 50 today makes me want to scream. How did life just sneak up on me? I can vividly remember my college years, law school, and then my children when they were young. 50 was for older people. Never dreaming that I would be one of those [...]
Photo by D. Sharon Pruitt. People are obsessed with their cells phones. They have to have the newest and the latest with all the bells and whistles. They always seem to be on them. You can’t even have a civil conversation with some people since they are constantly checking their emails and texting. But could [...]
Photo by Heather Elias This last week, my children returned to school. I was careful to re-use as many items that I had and only buy what I needed opting for items that I could recycle at the end of their lives. I had it with the typical plastic coated binder that ended up in [...]
