Archive for September, 2007
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Good reason to avoid industrial beef: 21.7 million pounds of beef recalled
Topps Meat Co., aka “The Hamburger People” may have to change their motto to the “We hope you don’t get E. coli O157:H7 from our factory farmed, inhumanely treated, crap infested cows!” According to CNN, Topps began the recall Tuesday with 330,000 pounds and increased it to a whopping total of 21.7 MILLION pounds!
If we [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Food + Health by Nicholaus Harris
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Local and urban agricultrue - The future.
One topic I will discuss often on this blog is our relationship with fossil fuels and how we can strive to live our lives in such a way that minimizes our reliance on them.
Fossil fuels are the backbone of US agriculture - they create fertilizers, pesticides, power farm equipment, and transport the average produce item [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Living Beyond Oil by Nicholaus Harris
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Augusta, Maine to get a LEED Platinum Supermarket!?
I just came across a post on greenbuildingsNYC revealing that Hannaford Supermarkets has proposed to build a 49,000 LEED Platinum supermarket in Augusta, ME. This comes as a particular surprise to me since I spent my childhood years 20 miles away in Appleton and never dreamed Hannaford (formerly Shop ‘N Save) had any environmental aspirations. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Corporate Responsibility by Nicholaus Harris
Monday, September 24th, 2007
“Weather We Change” - No helicopters, no rails, no C02; Just great skiing.
I love skiing and have done so all my life, but I have always regretted the environmental impacts. Something I plan to focus on once the season begins is how to be as green as possible when you go to the mountains. It seems a group of film-makers is already several steps ahead and has [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Green Events by Nicholaus Harris
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Silicon Valley Leadership Group: Companies Going Green
This Wednesday at Santa Clara University, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) group will host “Clean and Green,” a community forum aimed at presenting and discussing the greening of business in Silicon Valley. Each year SVLG releases a future projections report, and this year the major focus was on “clean tech” and how it is [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Corporate Responsibility by Nicholaus Harris
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Travel to Tahoe by Train!
Railroad travel has been out of style in the United States for quite some time now, but as oil prices top $80/barrel and continue to climb, I think rail travel is going to make a big comeback. Driving is simply going to get more and more expensive, and the price of maintaining our massive highway [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Transportation by Nicholaus Harris
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Amtrak - A relaxing and green way to travel!
Today I enjoyed a scenic, relaxing, informative and GREEN ride on Amtrak’s California Zephyr from Sacramento to Truckee. I’ll write more about it tomorrow, but for now, here is a nice video of a train passing by:
No Comments » - Posted in Transportation by Nicholaus Harris
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
DIY Yellow Jacket Trap - Free and Non-Toxic!
This time of year in Tahoe (and elsewhere) yellowjackets become a major nuisance to those who like to eat outdoors and even a threat to people with allergies. We had a big nest of them in our attic and decided to take matters into our own hands using homemade hanging traps, and within a short amount of time this was the result:
3 Comments » - Posted in Do It Yourself by Nicholaus Harris
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Pessimism vs. Optimism – can we actually solve the environmental crisis?
So why write a blog about striving to be green? Can we prevent the world from completely falling apart? Are efforts to protect the environment futile since we are going to utterly ruin it in the end? Is there any point at all to green our own lifestyles when doing so may not accomplish anything [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Environment by Nicholaus Harris
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Together, let’s strive for green!
We depend on our beautiful planet to provide us with the means to live, and now the earth depends on us choosing to live responsibly in order to keep on providing. We may feel insignificant and unable to cause change through our choices, but everything starts with individuals and grows into movements that create real [...]
