] Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukinitaly/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 [podcast]http://www.green-talk.com/podcasts/sundasolarhotwater.mp3[/podcast] Solar Hot water Evacuated tube collectors seem to be the rage at the International Builder’s Show last winter. I don’t know why, but those gleaming dark tubes just caught my eye. The more I learned about them, the more I liked the whole concept. Putting a solar […]
Archives for October 2009
Give your Unused Swing Set a New Purpose
For some dumb reason I own two swing sets. Long story, but to sum up the reason… an impulse buy. Here is the short condensed version. I bought two adorable recycled horse tire swings about fifteen years. Way before I was a certified treehugger. So, don’t go thinking I bought them simply because […]
TerraCycle and 3M Partner to Recycle Tape Dispensers
TerraCycle is one of my favorite companies. Their motto is someone else’s trash is someone else’s pocketbook, or bag or flower pot or binder OR whatever, this entreprenuerial groups of lads and lasses can dream up…They collect yogurt cups, FritoLay’s potato chips bags, Nabisco wrappers, and assorted other items that we ordinarily just flip into […]
Energy Monitors Curb Your Consumption
Brendan Gill of Plentyways contributed the following post to Green Talk about the benefit of Energy Monitors to reduce your energy consumption. I asked him to write about this topic since I, myself, grapple at which monitors to use. The idea behind energy monitors is that you measure and graph the total amount of electricity […]
Feelgoodz Flip Flops Make your Feet Eco-luriously Happy
See my giveaway below! When I received an email asking if I would try Feelgoodz Flip Flops, I was a little hesitant. Could I honestly judge how they feel when I have never been a big fan of flip flops? Your feet feel like they have been walking on the road and the strap between […]
Green Speed Links for October 12, 2009. Affecting Your Wallet to Your Stomach
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. I love this picture! This week I have some great green speed links ranging from green business funding to what to be aware of with protein shakes. (Think wallet to stomach.) As always, I encourage you to include your own favorite green news story in the comments below. Self promotion […]
Experimenting with Eating Sunflower Leaves
Lately I have been on twitter asking all of my garden followers can I eat sunflower, broccoli, or cauliflower leaves? All three plants produce amazing green leaves and it seems Mother Nature created them for a reason. Usually people just put the green leaves in the compost pail. Twitter Garden Pals, Shibaguyz, (“2 guyz lovin’ […]
Extra-Terrestrials Visit my Watermelon Patch
Crop circles, unexplained lights in the sky and now strange marking on my Watermelons? ET Phone home? Is there life outside of the Earth and if so, how were they able to make such small circles on my Watermelons? Okay. Okay. No, I have not gone off the green deep end. I am just joking. (Well […]
