Archive for the ‘Green’ Category

Is it still news when it’s 2 weeks late?

At first glace I was thinking this would be hard…

April 29, 2009   Posted in: Diet / Health, Food Stamps, Green, Recycling, Weight  No Comments

Happy Earth Day

It’s probably rude to cut the grass on earth day right?  Yes….
Living green is work.  There’s extra steps and cost involved to do many things, and to me it all comes back to convienence.  We have paid a lot, and sacrificed more for convienence.   There’s somethings that I don’t want to live without.  Indoor plumbing?  Highly convienent, [...]

April 22, 2009   Posted in: Green, News  2 Comments

The Tahoe, week 1

First week of the new truck.  It still has that new-truck-full-of-nasty-chemicals smell.  Which ironically, is nice.  Probably a mental “money” thing, or a brain check.
/brain voice on.
“Is this ours?”  “Yes?  Ok, we like it.”
/brain voice off.
The ride is still “truckish”.  It bounces along the road, swallows most bumps without too much trouble.  It’s got a [...]

March 30, 2009   Posted in: Hybrid  No Comments

Random green post…

Pininfarina has teamed up and designed an electric car with a French company Bollore….

March 30, 2009   Posted in: Green, Hybrid  No Comments

Saving the environment… the expensive way.

The wife and I had been talking for a while now about what we were going to do when our truck went off lease….

March 26, 2009   Posted in: Hybrid  No Comments

Going green… Step 2, Recycling

Recycling. Seems like a big idea, but it doesn’t involve a lot of work.

March 4, 2009   Posted in: Green, Recycling  No Comments

Going green… Step 1

So last year when I decided to go “green” I wasn’t sure what to do first….

February 25, 2009   Posted in: CFL's, Green  No Comments

Changing it up…

Changed up the site a bit. There’s only like 4 people who ever see, so it’s not that big of a deal. But it’s new, it’s exciting…

February 23, 2009   Posted in: Garden, Green  No Comments

General update and an Eco Tv

Sony announces new power saving TV.  I’m not a huge fan of the Sony corporation, but I do like my Sony big screen.  Mine has been a great tv, and I would look at this one if I were in the market.
Yesterday was the last day I walked by the gym without going in.  I’ve been going [...]

February 21, 2009   Posted in: Diet / Health, Family, Green  No Comments

Solar news

So it appears research is looking at storing solar energy much like a plant.  Chemically.  Interesting concept.  Solar is definately the wave of the very near future.  I’m hope I’m still alive to see it.
Also if you want to go green with a new cell phone, here’s some options.
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February 16, 2009   Posted in: Green, News  No Comments