So this post is provided by me a bit late, as my friends at the Nevada Conservation League (not local, obviously, but a really great blog), posted that NYTimes wrote on Frito-Lay going “green”. I felt I had to respond, due to my previous post on their atrocious packaging habits.
The articles states:
Its goal is to [...]
Occasionally you’ll see me put “green” in quotation marks. I’m not trying to mock anything, but the term “green” is actually one giant ameoba of meaning, miscontrued meaning, and abused connotation leading to economic adulteration.
I use “green” as describing a collective effort, by an individual or a community, to introduce non-toxic and sustainable ways of [...]
I am SO bummed (kinda). The Triangle Vegetarian Society held a vegetarian (vegan, actually) feast for a load of registered people yesterday. The crowd was a sellout with more than 30 others on the waitlist!
Dilip, the president of TVS, said on his blog
By the way, this afternoon we sold out of our Thanksgiving feast with [...]
I just thought I would share a forum post I found from a “tween” (someone between the ages of 9-12… not wanting to be called a child, not old enough to be a teen) on 100 ways to save the planet.
Lilytheyellowluver breaks up her tips by categories: home, office, yard, air, water and trash.
I think every generation [...]
Don’t think you can throw that phonebook curbside! It will NOT get picked up because the poor quality paper makes it impossible to recycle as new paper.
Instead, your phonebook will become insulation materials. Hey, better that than having our hundreds of thousands of phonebooks in Raleigh (and the Triangle at large) act as anchors at [...]
Recycle recycle recycle those old phonebooks.
Think about if we didn’t recycle them… I bet those alone could cover the landfill!
Durham sent out a press release on where you can recycle your phonebooks.
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CITY OF DURHAM
Office of Public Affairs
101 City Hall Plaza
Durham, NC 27701
News Release
For Details, Contact:
Amy C. Blalock
Senior Public Affairs Specialist
(919) 560-4123 x 253
(919) 475-7735 (cell)
<mailto:Amy.Blalock@durhamnc.gov> [...]
To go along with the yuck and lack of bicycle friendly roads here in the Triangle, Phillip recently blogged about the concrete islands and general attitude during critical mass and biking in Durham. This post really shows a more accurate perspective and testimony to my earlier post on bicycling in the Triangle.
Join Phillip in Durham’s Critical [...]
Paul Joseph Watson says that by not saving the bees more quickly, we are headed toward full blown Ecological Apocalypse. In fact, Watson says humanity will perish much faster from the demise of the honeybee than from the much-hyped and documentarized man-made global warming.
Who am I to say he’s wrong? With CCD claiming bees to the extent that [...]
Have you heard of “Raleigh 2030“? Thanks to Sue’s recent post, I learned that the City of Raleigh has *just* started a 24-month period to seriously revaluate it’s Comprehensive Plan, first created in 1989, and that you can have a part in what Raleigh could be in the year 2030.
Needless to say, Raleigh is one [...]
In a progressive city, like those here in the Triangle, Julia Vail points out how interesting it is that the rickety old bicycle exists as the primary choice of fuel-friendly transportation for the area progressives (imagine the cats at the coffeehouse who work for IBM, SAS and Lulu, text-messenging and carrying messenger bags, laptops and [...]
