Like many Californians we shop at our local farmer's market, turn off the lights, maintain our home, buy recycled goods and commute.
My husband and I put all of our data into the Cool Climate Calculator and found we are doing really well for an American and even substantially better than the average Californian, but our commutes undid a lot of the CO2 we were saving in other areas.
Back in February, my sister sent me a link to the electric car company Miles EV. On their website, they featured a 100+ mile range highway-speed fully-electric car with an estimated MSRP under $40,000 that they said would be ready to test drive sometime in August, and would be available for sale sometime early in 2010. It is now gone from their website, which currently is only featuring a few small low-speed cars and trucks.
I cannot say what it is exactly that makes hanging clothes up on the line such a sublime experience but for me its true. Gardening is very rewarding but often dirty and hard work and I dont really enjoy housework. Yet hanging clothes in the cool morning air, watching the pearly steam rising from
We have been planning on setting up rain barrels in our yard for some time now, but it was the recent weather report, predicting one more rainshower, that spurred us to get moving in time to catch it.
In trying to create a more sustainable lifestyle, owning your own chickens is a very rewarding step.
Lately there seems to be a lot of talk about using nuclear energy to reduce our petrolium and coal consumption. The arguement usually involves a comparison of the volume of nuclear waste per unit of energy produced compared to coal, coupled with an assertion that neither solar nor wind can provide baseline power.
There are flaws in the arguement, though. One thing that is often overlooked is that currently, nuclear energy is not viable without subsidies. A 2005 article from EarthTrack describes the dependancy nuclear energy has on government funds:
Recently I was reading an article in Plenty about a celebrity who had gone green. .