Daily Archives: November 24, 2008
Tasty Tomato Lentil Curry, Greener Gift Cards and 6 Reuses for Pizza Boxes
:: Get the spicy tastiness you crave with Kelly’s easy Tomato Lentil Curry. It’s dramatically cheaper than dinner out at your fave Indian restaurant.
:: Gift cards are a greener gift-giving option but sometimes those pesky plastic cards aren’t recyclable. Check out these tips before you go shopping.
:: Re-purpose your takeout pizza boxes into solar cookers, pastry containers, kitty litter liners and m
20MW Solar Tower Project: Just the Beginning
Spanish Concentrated Solar Thermal Plants Set to Grow Exponentially
Viva España! No sooner does Kimberley post on a solar electric project in a Spanish cemetery that we also read over at The Guardian about the expanding ambitions of Spain’s solar tower developers. As our readers will know from our previous posts on solar towers, they are
3 Green Pre-Conditions for a Big Three Bailout
photo: Richard O. Barry
With all the talk about bailing Detroit’s Big Three automakers out of a mess seemingly of their own creation, a number of groups have put forward the idea that if Detroit wants monetary help there are going to have to be some serious conditions placed on how that money is used.
In a new piece for Yale Environment 360 Jim Motavalli nicely sums up how Detroit got to be between the rock and a hard place (reliance on an unsustainable bigger is better formula entirely dependent on a never ending supply of cheap oil), and some of the c
Holiday Gift Guide: For the Jetsetter
Photo via Sativa
When you spend a lot of time thinking about how to protect the Earth and its resources, like so many ‘Huggers do, it’s only natural to want to see the world’s beautiful places, too. So despite it’s inherent eco-impact, travel itself is a gift: Connecting to a place with personal, first-hand experience can be illuminating and inspiring. Of course, not everyone travels just for fun. Some of us must fly cross-country or internationally for work (you are buying carbon offsets, right?) or to visit family. So whether your gift list holds a die-hard weekend warrior or a busi
The Everglades and Galapagos—Two Ecosystems Imperiled
All photos by participating teacher and photographer Sue Cullumber
30 of the top teachers in the US are making a trek from the Florida Everglades to the Galapagos Islands in order to engage a series of global conservation issues in the Toyota International Teacher Program. I’m traveling alongside the educators to report on the findings and experiences that unfold on the road to Galapagos.
Investigatin
Using the “Flash” from Lightning To Predict Deadly Floods
Flash floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States, and a leading cause of all weather-related deaths. Over here in the Middle East, with much of the land desert, flash floods kill people every winter season when the rains start. See Relief Web’s report on Yemen, and OneWorld blog here on the Yemen flash flood which recently displaced more than 20,000 people.
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Remember when?
Overdue to provide an update on deals and such, but in the meantime I happened to run across this listing of venture capital and angels groups involved in cleantech… Three years ago.
A nice, tidy, short list, huh? Figured I’d rescue it from the memory hole, so I’ll also cut and paste the list below.
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The Renewable Dead: Spanish Cemetery Goes Solar
Image: Associated Press (AP)
A Spanish town outside of Barcelona has found a way to make the best of a cramped situation: lacking sufficient flat, sun-soaked land to implement their renewable energy program, they opted to install solar panels in their local cemetery.
Santa Coloma de Gramenet is a working-class town of 124,000, densely packed into only four square kilometres (1.5 square miles). After exhausting all options in their search to find a viable place to set up their expanding solar energy program – which already included four smaller solar installations on top of local buildings – officials finally settled on the cemetery. So what d
Green Eyes On: Five Tips for a Green Thanksgiving Dinner
Photo: Noel Hendrickson/Getty Images
Thanksgiving is, hands down, my favorite holiday. For me it means family and friends, warm homes and good, good food. By Thursday afternoon kitchens everywhere will be wafting aromas of pumpkin pies and roasted turkeys. The wine glasses will come out, the sparkling cider will be poured, and families will gather to laugh and visit and (let’s be honest) stuff their bellies beyond the point of full.
So how can you have a green Thanksgiving while still paying tribute to the holiday’s origins of giving thanks and celebrating the harvest?
Kitchen of Tomorrow from 1943
It’s Monday, so Google must have rolled out another new feature to waste our day. Now that I have made my email look prettier I can move on to their new picture gallery of thousands of shots from Life Magazine. One amazing set found by Laure at Dwell is a 1943 series of a kitchen-of-tomorrow exhibit taken by Time/Life’s Nina Leen.
It has built in waffle irons and toasters, a kitchen sink operated by <a href=”http://imag