Sustainablog

Sustainable Seafood Information at Your Fingertips via FishPhone

Robin Shreeves — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:54:03 +0000

I only started eating seafood regularly about two years ago. Shortly after I started to add it to my diet, I learned that I needed to be concerned about two things - mercury in the seafood and the environmental impact of how seafood is caught or farmed. Those concerns have put a serious damper on my [...]

S.O.S. (Save Our Shredders): the Junk Mail Deluge

Birgitte Rasine — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:12:11 +0000

Birgitte Rasine is the chief evolution officer of LUCITÀ, a firm believer in abolishing junk mail. Help. My hands are sweaty, my heart’s racing, my vision’s blurred and I can’t breathe. I’ve been shredding since last Monday and my office is nearly filled to the ceiling with little multicolored bits of paper that resemble viruses [...]

A Sustainable Way to Travel: CouchSurfing.com

Caroline Savery — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:38:17 +0000

CouchSurfing saved my life. Well, possibly. No one yet knows what role quality sleep plays in one’s life, or whether one could die from sleep deprivation. But if it weren’t for the Couchsurfing.com network, I would be–more or less–homeless. Since I gleefully waved goodbye to my soggy, moldy tent in mid-July, I’ve been faced with the dilemma of… [...]

Do you Live to Work? Ecopreneurs Use their Green Business to Make a Life.

John Ivanko — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:35:34 +0000

Life offers more than a paycheck, corner office and promotional title. In fact, many of us are working ourselves to death. Less than 40 percent of working Americans actually take all the vacation time that they’re offered, and many who do have a hard time disconnecting from the office, voicemail and e-mail. Added to this are [...]

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with The Nature Conservancy’s Voluntary Carbon Offset Program

Justin Van Kleeck — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00:34 +0000

Carbon offsetting has been around for a while now, giving you the opportunity to reduce your “carbon footprint” by trading cash for your personal carbon output. In most cases, this quid pro quo occurs through a donation to an organization that plants trees of some sort in some place where, hopefully (but not always), they [...]

Eco-Libris: Wal-Mart Joins WWF’s Initiative to Eliminate Illegal Logging

Raz Godelnik — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:05:13 +0000

This is a guest post by Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris.This article was originally published on Eco-Libris blog on July 16. Forests need strong allies to win their survival battles. This week it seems they have a new powerful friend that might help. His name is Wal-Mart. Environmental Leader reports that the world’s largest retailer has become a [...]

A Free Cab Ride that’s Eco-Friendly? It can Happen.

Robin Shreeves — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:09:27 +0000

My husband and I got a free cab ride while we were in Dublin on vacation. Yes, free. And even better, it was eco-friendly. After exploring the city on foot for two days straight, we decided we wanted to be chauffeured to our final tourist destination. So we hopped in an Ecocab. What’s an Ecocab? It’s [...]

Look into the Light: the CFL

Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:05:30 +0000

If you ask Simran about compact florescent light bulbs, she may crack one open and cut you. Not really, that would scatter mercury, but she is loca for the light bulbs. Check Monday’s Huffington Post for the full version of this post. People give you this whole rap about how easy saving the planet is. Change [...]

When I Have Fears That Earth May Cease to Be: Dealing with Environmental Dread and Despair

Justin Van Kleeck — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:06 +0000

After being fairly fearful as a child, I am happy to say that not much genuinely scares me nowadays. The list of things that make me want to hide under the covers at night is quite short: clowns, Teletubbies, Pee Wee Herman, SPAM (the kind in the can), Disco. Overall, then, I am a pretty [...]

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Fly: The Mysterious Magic of Lightning Bugs

Justin Van Kleeck — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:00:14 +0000

In the darkness of twilight or the soft glow before dawn, stars seem to blink and drift about in the air. While crickets chirp, cicadas croon, and various creatures scurry about, strange yellow-green speckles light up the night. What you are witnessing is no choreographed prelude to a Pink Floyd concert, no moviemaker’s special effect, [...]