Do you feel you are living someone else’s life other than your own? I sense people’s unhappiness in conferences and workshops.. Everyone seems to want a more rewarding live. When an email about Lisa McCourt book Juicy Joy: 7 Simple Steps to Your Glorious, Gutsy Self crossed my desk, a bell went off in my head. […]
Archives for April 2012
Searaser – One Step Closer to Affordable Wave Power?
Welcome guest poster, Mathias Aarre Maehlum. The team behind Searaser, a device that converts wave energy into useful electricity, claims it will generate electricity even cheaper than fossil fuels and coal. Are their claims rooted in reality, or is this just another hype within renewable energy? Let’s take a look closer at this technology. What […]
Honest Tea CEO Compromises Less, Increases Sustainable Efforts
[Note 5/4/2012: This article incorrectly stated that Honest Tea was working toward using a PLA (plant-based polylactic acid) alternative for its bottles. It has been updated to reflect that the company is actually pursuing a PET bottle with 30 percent plant-based content.] Honest Tea, an organic beverage company balances being profitably green without compromising […]
Coffee Grounds and Roses. Starbucks to the Rescue.
My roses would start the season with beautiful glossy leaves. But by the middle of the season, the leaves would be downright ugly due to Rust, a fungal disease. I figured my sprinkler system was the culprit since roses do not like their foliage to remain wet. Last summer, they looked so terrible that I cut them back. Honestly, I never thought they would […]
Coffee Grounds for Your Compost. Get Your Brew Right.
Many of you are following my series on coffee grounds in the garden. Just to catch you up to speed, I used coffee grounds for my sorry looking roses, and they came alive. But conflicting information on the internet made me rethink my decision. Was I hurting or helping my plants? Read are coffee grounds friend […]
Non-Toxic Avenger Book. Handbook to Reduce Daily Toxic Chem Assault
Deanna Duke, author of the The Non-Toxic Avenger, What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, chronicles her journey to detoxify her life after her husband was diagnosed with cancer and her son was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. As she calls it, the “double whammy.” Although I think of myself as an educated chemical consumer, the book was eye-opening and […]
Freeze Your Tomatoes to Reduce Spoilage and Save Cash.
How many times have your forgotten your tomatoes in your vegetable drawer? Perhaps, you are going on vacation and don’t know what to do with your unused veggies? No one like to throw away spoiled or soon to be spoiled vegetables. Talk about hard cash going down the drain. Recently, I faced this same […]
Green Gal Next Door Practically Green’s Founder: Game On for Change
This week’s Green Gal Next Door is Susan Hunt Stevens, the founder of Practically Green, a digital sustainability game platform encouraging change. I had the pleasure of interviewing Susan about how PG is changing the sustainability landscape one game point at a time. (See the video interview here.) We all know how people love games. […]
