This is awesome.  Google just announced this week a new way to look up bike routes on Google Maps.  For awhile now you were able to get routes for public transit, car and walking, but now with bicycling, it’s getting to the point where you feel there really is no excuse to bike somewhere every [...]

(Note: the picture is of my new dog Kona on my chemical free lawn!)  A couple years ago I really started thinking about all of the chemicals we use around the house.  From the multiple bottles in the shower, on the bathroom counter and under the sink.  Couple that with what you have in the [...]

I thought this was really cool.  We are already “greening” our site in different ways, but this is a great article about 10 Easy Ways to Green Your Web Site.  Here is what we have done in response to each one of those 10 items.
1.  Environmentally Friendly Web Hosting
We use Dreamhost.  They offset their carbon [...]

I ran across this article on today on Planet Green and I thought it did a great job in summing up why we need to care about the big climate change meeting going on in Copenhagen.  The best quote in the article is simply put,
“We can reduce emissions sufficiently with current technologies and ones which [...]

Saying that you want to “go green” is a lot easier than doing it. You have to make new choices every day. There is a big learning curve, what is green, what isn’t green and so on. It could get so frustrating that you may just want to walk away from it all together. Don’t. [...]

There is a new movie that is starting to come out this month called “No Impact Man.”  It’s about a man named Colin Beavan and his family in New York who decide to not only “go green,” but create a zero impact on the environment for one whole year.  This guy goes extreme, getting rid [...]

Many times when I am working, I will play music, a podcast or a movie in the background to keep things moving.  I haven’t really spent that much time on hulu.com and I thought I would go see if there was anything interesting.  That is where I ran across a truly mind blowing documentary, The [...]

Are you a green business?  Do you want to make your business green?  Do you want to start a green business?  A large part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, $60 Billion to be exact, is earmarked to environmental projects.  These projects range from building retrofitting, to renewable energy infrastructure to research [...]