One of the things I’ve been saying for awhile is that the Toyota Prius and cars like it are not the solution to our problems.  Sure, it gets decent gas mileage but at the same time, the energy and materials that go into making one offset the benefits.  The math is quite rough but it [...]

Biodiesel is one of the greenest and sustainable sources of energy that we can use to power our cars.  Of course, there aren’t too many cars around that are designed for it and here in North America, even regular diesel options on cars are rare at best.  Strangely enough, biodiesel is incredibly easy to make, [...]

I mentioned awhile back that some kid for a science fair experiment succeeded where so many have failed in an effort to rid our planet of plastic.  Don’t get me wrong…modern plastics are without a doubt one of the things that keeps many products easily produced and usable but when it’s time to dispose of [...]

Who says big business can’t help out the environment?  Let’s see if Coke is willing to make this change in their marketing and production.
It’s a seemingly small change but considering the amount of Coke being sold each day, reducing the production and recycling process by a single step and removing the amount of paint used [...]

It is possibly the single most important thing on the planet for all living organisms and recent studies suggest that water is going to become an even more precious resource as world water demand exceeds the supply.  For many of us in first world countries, it is hard to imagine there being a shortage of [...]

It’s not always possible to find organic versions of produce at your local market and sometimes even if you do managed to find it, organic may not always fit your food budget.  Nothing causes more of a shopping dilemma than an organic piece of fruit that costs twice as much as its non-organic counterpart.  As [...]

I’m sure by now you’ve all been subjected to the media hysteria surrounding swine flu or the H1N1 virus.  Everyday we’re hearing about shortages of vaccines and the rare cases of deaths as a result of being infected.  Personally, I dismissed much of this as another case of “Fox News”-style reporting, propaganda spread for the [...]

You don’t have to find a job cleaning the ocean, ripping dolphins out of fishing nets with your bare hands or throwing barrels of toxic waste into space to make a difference through your occupation.  In fact, a simple a change as changing how you work makes a world of difference.  Depending on what you [...]

Addicted to Plastic
I recently watched this documentary and despite what the title makes you think, it isn’t about nosejobs or facelifts.  It’s about the mass amount of plastic that our society manufactures and quickly disposes of and how it is negatively affecting the way we live and the planet we live on.
Of course, it doesn’t [...]

We’ve been hearing about the death of print media for years.  Magazines and newspapers are finding it more and more difficult to survive in a mostly electronic world and while sales in books has remained largely the same (although some studies have shown steady growth for many retailers but that could be attributed to Barnes [...]