Recent Posts Tagged With 'environment'

• Urban Sustainable Cities: The Challenges and Priorities

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 09:38 in environment, new jersey, new jersey green, sustainability and urban areas, sustainable urban cities

  (From left to right, Panelists Paul Miller, Dr. dt ogilvie, Marty Johnson, and Robert Anotonicello) Last week, I attended the Jumpstart the New Green Economy conference at Fairleigh Dickinson. Although this conference was in New Jersey, many of the ...

• Contech Stormwater Solutions Reduce Pollutants and CO2

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 21:01 in environment, building materials, contect, 2xgreen concrete, reduction of stormwater pollutants, stormwater filtration

  Last week, Contech Stormwater Solutions installed at Newport Beach, California’s Fashion Island the above stormwater filtration vault, which will block pollutants from flowing into the ocean.  Besides removing harmful chemicals from our waterw...

• You Gotta Love these Green Moms

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 20:43 in environment, activism, environmental websites, green moms, green mom carnival

  In my previous post,  I mentioned that the group, the Green Moms of the Green Moms Carnival, won the Shorty Award for best short green content on Twitter.  I am part of a group of about 30 women who blog about saving the Earth in some facet.  So...

• Protect Unborn Children from Toxic Chemicals. Sign the Declaration.

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 15:56 in children, kids, environment, activism, toxic chemicals, ewg, kid-safe chemical act, enviromental news

  Is their a fever pitch to this message?  You betcha.  Our unborn children are being exposed to countless chemicals in the womb due to our industrial society.  Previously, I wrote about the Enviromental Working Group’s cord blood tests that r...

• You’ve Got Green Mail, January 18, 2009 Round-up

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 14:53 in science, environment, food, Alternative Energy, automobiles, energy efficient products, enviromental news, animals & nature

  Photo by Henry Heatly On this week’s You’ve Got Mail segment, I have included seven eclectic articles ranging from an amazing Solar-powered green slug to the USDA’s deregulation of an industrial genetically modified corn crop.  If ...

• Give Your Ducts Some TLC to Stop Global Warming

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 12:07 in global warming, environment, building materials, insulation, energy costs, building products, ducts

  Photo by Belinda Hankins Miller. This month’s topic on the Green Mom’s carnival is global warming being hosted over at Not Quite Crunchy Chicken.  How many of you are freezing as much as I am? How many of you are tempted to crank that th...

• Buy a Real Christmas Tree Just like Charlie Brown

  Posted on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 22:53 in environment, holidays, gardening, a charlie brown christmas, christmas tree farms, adopt a christmas tree, buy an organic christmas tree, buying live trees, buying real trees, coaliation of enviromental concisious growers, holiday tree farms, lead and pvc in christmas trees

  Do you remember in the movie, A Charlie Brown Christmas, when Charlie Brown picks up the only real Christmas tree, albeit a scraggly one, at the tree market store? He chose this tree rather than the big shiny aluminum tree requested by Lucy for the p...

• Save our Ancient Trees: Buy and Use Recycled Paper

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 22:14 in environment, Paper, recycle, household products, recycled paper, informed, recycled toliet paper, destruction of the forests and paper, paper industry and recycling, recyclable products, secret life of trees, secret life videos

  Video by Informed as part of the Secret Life series Do you know the secret life of paper? Do you know that how many trees are cut down in the name of paper you use for the toliet, copy machine, or every day use?  Informed, a not for profit has creat...

• Mr. President-Elect, Update the Toxic Substance Chemical Act

  Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 21:06 in children, environment, environmental working group, kid-safe chemical act, chemicals and epa, chemicals and laws, increase in diseases, rubber stamping chemicals approvals, towic substance chemical act

  Photo by permission of Paul Goyette. December’s topic for this month’s Green Moms Carnival is prevention. The question asked is, if we could create an agenda for our new President in order to prevent certain environmental, health, or soc...

• HomeGrown Movie: Little House on the Prairie in Pasadena, CA

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 00:22 in environment, gardening, homegrown, environmental websites, dervaes family, urban homesteaders, self sustainable families, urban homesteaders in california

  Photo by permission of Robert McFalls “Homegrown is the inspiring true story of the amazing Dervaes family who are living off the grid in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. They harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter ...

• Send a Message to Walt Disney to Green Clean

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 16:33 in travel, children, environment, household products, disneyland, disney world, green cleaning parties, and justice, chej and green cleaning products, disney world and green cleaning, go green disney campaign, the center for health

  Photo of the some of the unhappy dwarfs at CHEJ The other day I caught a glimpse of a television ad featuring young children wishing for a Disney World vacation with the slogan that now there are affordable trips to meet everyone’s budgets. Wi...

• Dreaming of a White Halloween

  Posted on Wednesday October 29th, 2008 at 22:09 in environment, climate change, holidays, snow in october, bad winter prediction, colder august weather, snow in new jersey, snow in october in new jersey, white halloween

  I am dreaming of a white Halloween… yeah, that should be the lyric from good old Bing Crosby. No I am not crazy.  It actually snowed in New Jersey yesterday in OCTOBER and we had flurries today.  Everyone was in shock.  Is this just another ...

• Architect Michael McDonough: A Green Living Perspective Video

  Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 19:22 in environment, building materials, michael mcdon

  Michael McDonough is an award winning architect who has been involved in the green building industry for over thirty years.  I have been following him since he started e-house, an experimental house of the future built in the Hudson Valley in...