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• Gardening in 2013

  

  Last year we had a massive garden. It took up the majority of our backyard with peas, leeks, carrots, beans, summer squash, winter squash, lettuces, broccoli,... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• DOE Announces ‘Breakthrough’ in Carbon Capture

  

  The Department of Energy (DOE) last week was excited to announce the commencement of industrial-scale carbon capture and utilization demonstration projects at... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Dispatches from the Bus: Polyglots and Diversity

  

  Ask any ecologist or biologist and they’ll probably tell you that greater diversity in a system, usually referred to as biodiversity, increases its health and... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Aquaponics and the Rise of Food Urban Food Production

  

  At the turn of the century, urban areas were teeming with food production facilities. Mind you, this was the 19th century. As food production joined the global... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• That New Car Smell: Off-gassing

  

  I was in Denver for 26 hours a few months ago and had to rent a car. If there had been light rail from the airport, maybe I could’ve pulled it off, but I had a... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• I Like Kansas

  

  Kansas may have its issues (conservative senators that are not always best for the environment) but I like it. I used to hate driving across Kansas because ther... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: Delta Airlines

  

  As part of a recent business trip, I flew Delta Airlines. Flying is rife with environmental concerns, but it’s not going away. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• EPA Proposes Cleaner Fuels and Cars Standard

  

  After receiving feedback from stakeholders including oil refiners and auto manufacturers, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed standards in March that... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Buying an Older Home and Greening It

  

  My wife and I recently ended a 5-month long home search. Our parameters were a bit tight. Between budget and location, we automatically discounted a number of... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• From Paradox to Paradigm: Korea’s Green Growth Approach

  

  Consider the implications of each of the world’s major economies consciously shifting their growth paradigms towards a model of sustainable development, one in... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Goldman Prize Winner: Azzam Alwash

  

  During Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror, his environmental transgressions were manifold. Among them were chemical warfare, continued oil extraction, and... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Long Trail Brewing Co.

  

  Company Long Trail Brewing Co. might not be the first name you think of when it comes to Vermont craft breweries, as others have more widespread distribution... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Dispatches from the Bus Stop: Counting Blue Cars (Thanks Dishwalla)

  

  I’ve started a little research project. Most mornings while I stand on the corner I count the number of cars that pass by as I wait for my bus transfer from... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Antibiotics in Our Food

  

  One thing that scares me about our food system is the use of antibiotics. It scares me because it seems to be causing problems that weren’t originally... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• U.S. Energy Independence is a Delusion

  

  Increasing America’s domestic energy production is something most of us can agree on, but it seems there is a fork in the road as to how to get there. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• May 2013 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events

  

  The snow has finally melted in Minnesota (though another round of flurries falls as I post this). Nothing signifies spring in the sustainability world quite lik... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Floating Bicycle Roundabout Opens in The Netherlands

  

  The city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands has literally gone above and beyond in their quest to make bicycling convenient and yet compatible with car travel. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Review: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Tar Sands

  

  Although written in 2008, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent feels like something that could’ve been written yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Resource Consumption at Every Turn

  

  I feel like everywhere I look these days, all I see is excessive consumption, even when it’s not necessarily the case. On the bus, the person sitting next to... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• It’s the Thought That Counts

  

  I was thinking the other day how people try to make sustainability and environmental thinking an easy task. People like to come up with easy tasks to do your... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT