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Showing posts with label sustainable business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainable business. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Photosmart? Yes, indeed.
This Monday at The Green Phone Booth I discuss the purgatory of PH (Printing Hell) and a few surprises from HP (Hewlett-Packard). Did you know printers now come with instructions on how to be green? Now if they only told us how to make the damn thing work.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Design on a Dime.
What do you do when challenged to come up with table centerpieces for a sports award banquet attended by 280 guests with a $5.00 budget? Oh, and you have seven days to accomplish your mission?
If you are wondering why things have been so quiet around here the past two weeks, my Monday post at The Green Phone Booth might give a clue.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Corn to feed your car?
I am calling on your superhero powers to please take action on this matter! Go to the Green Phone Booth, click the link at the bottom of this post, fill in your name and email address, and urge the USDA to rethink its "Food for Fuel" Policy.
USDA is poised to deregulate the world's first genetically engineered (GE) industrial crop. Similar to GE pharma crops that use corn for producing drugs, Syngenta's "Event 3272" is genetically engineered to use corn for energy (ethanol) production and not for food. This unprecedented, industrial application of a GE technology poses a variety of environmental, health, and economic risks that must be carefully evaluated to determine whether the widespread use of this GE industrial corn crop should be allowed on farms across our nation.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Miracle in my Mailbox.
3:00 in the afternoon and it is dark outside. Dark, cold, and VERY snowy. The picture above is of my garden. Well, the remains of my garden. Sadly, I never got a chance to clean it up before the snow came. Lifeless heirloom tomatoes clinging to their frozen cages. Peppers that were never meant to see snow. Frozen pumpkins still on their vine. Four more months of looking at this?
How depressing. But, just when I thought I was doomed to be a gloomy prisoner stuck inside this icy tomb, a miracle arrived in my mailbox.
How depressing. But, just when I thought I was doomed to be a gloomy prisoner stuck inside this icy tomb, a miracle arrived in my mailbox.
Oh the weather outside is frightful,
but seed catalogs in the mail are so delightful!
but seed catalogs in the mail are so delightful!
I felt like running through the streets exclaiming, "The seed catalogs are here! The seed catalogs are here!".Oh joyous day! I love the arrival of seed catalogs. They unabashedly proclaim the coming of Spring with their vivid color and glorious array of flora and fauna. No matter how ugly it is outside I am easily transported to another time and place with a mere flip of the page. I'll have that and that. Ooh, those look yummy. Gotta have some of these. What the hell, why not try something new? Add that to the list, too. I can see it now, my half acre buzzing with birds and bees enjoying the kaleidescope of brightly colored perennials and playful annuals; vegetables abounding from every square inch of the rows of raised beds; a kitchen garden full of aromatic herbs on either side of the front stoop; a massive pumpkin patch with those for cooking, carving, and gargantuan 1,000 pounder to take the blue ribbon at the fair; rows and rows of the juiciest sweet corn I ever laid eyes on; beanstalks reaching for the sky; tomatoes, oh the tomatoes! I will have a root cellar full of canned homemade sauce; a goat grazing in the only green patch that remains of the lawn and perhaps a small flock of chickens wandering about, gleefully scratching and pecking at the bugs.
I am being way overzealous/ambitious/optimistic I know, but who cares? For now it is just fun to dream.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Don't blow your top!
Bank of America has announced it will phase out financing to companies whose predominant method of extracting coal is through mountain top removal. Read all about it in my Friday post Banking on the environment at the Green Phone Booth.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Sustainable Subway?
Surprisingly Subway is trimming more than waistlines. It did wonders for Jared, can Subway help save the rest of us? Read about their surprising sustainable initiatives in my post at The Green Phone Booth.
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