“Newly Green Corporations Want You To Believe…

you can do your part to save the planet-while they continue to plunder it.”
My favorite local paper, The Metroland, held a cover story last week called Lights Out, on the ways in which corporations are taking advantage of the new Green Movement, while continuing to be directly responsible for the problem in the first place. [...]

Floating Water Purifier

I’ve mentioned the Radical Urban Sustainability Training before. It was offered in Albany by the Rhizome Collective,an amazing group of people concerned with the impending deconstruction of food and water access, particularly for those in urban settings. This is one of a series of posts outlining some of my favorite ideas and how you can [...]

Rhizome Collective

I took something called the Radical Urban Sustainability Training here in Albany a few months back. It focused on working within the urban landscape (hence the title) and taught methods and tricks for growing food, remediating toxic soil, catching rain water and cleaning grey water, a whole bunch of great stuff. I’m going to do [...]

Pedal People

Northampton just might be on to something. Five years ago a group of folks, who call themselves The Pedal People started offering “human powered delivery and hauling service.”
Today they are doing better than ever. They aim to cut pollution by delivering groceries, picking [...]

USMADETOYS.com

This website usmadetoys.com offers a comprehensive list of products made in the United States.
What’s so great about that, you ask? Aren’t they more expensive than imports, you ask?
Well, dear reader, as an example: here is a tricycle listed on the site for $38.99:

The same product is for sale at amazon.com for $44.89.
These sites have been [...]

Eco Volunteering

“Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.”
- Oscar Levant -
“Causing the right amount of trouble is an art form.”
- Judith Coche -
US and South American Organic Volunteering Web Site: www.organicvolunteers.com/
International Environmental Volunteering: www.volunteerabroad.com/
Idealist:www.idealist.org/
Volunteer Match: www.volunteermatch.org/
Volunteer/Vacation
Ecovolunteer:
Ecoprograms: <a href=”www.ecovolunteer.org/“>www.ecovolunteer.org/
Volunteer/Training
IICD www.iicd.org/

Veggie Whale Tails

Someone left this post as a comment on my page and I thought it was worth sharing with everyone! (thank you to “heather” who posted the comment.)
Veggie Fuel Powers Organic Chip Company’s Expansion

Declining oil reserves, global warming, national security, clean air, and reducing your carbon footprint are issues that concern anyone who pays attention to [...]

Sustainable Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I found a few interesting tidbits on an eco friendly thanksgiving in the Huffington Post here, about.comand at NatureMom.
I just so happens that despite my Native American heritage, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Why? Because it’s got all the warm fuzzy’s of the holiday season without the consumerist jive of Christmas and such.
As [...]

Dem Candidates on Environment

“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.”
- Voltaire -
Here are a few clips on my top choices for the 2008 Dem Ticket.
*** For the record, I won’t support any candidate that is FOR Nuclear power. We have no effective means for storing toxic waste from nuclear programs,they say it’s the “green energy” but [...]

Community Garden

The Capital District Community Garden offers plots to area residents in order to offer them the opportunity to grow their own organic food. I have to pleasure to serve as an intern with them next semester and I am so excited to begin!
If there is one in your area, check out their site, or better [...]