This was too funny not to post. Over at TreeHugger the 5 best green ass filled video ads were posted earlier this morning and I wanted to share the one that cracked me up…
Warning: Ugly Butts Are Exposed. Just kidding, it’s all in good green humor.
Have a look:
You Are My Sunshine
Check out all 5 at TreeHugger
Tags: Compact Fluorescent Lighting, environmental adsStopdodo is the global portal for environmental jobs and resumes.
If you are pursuing a respectable career path in the ecological and environmental fields and have even considered expanding your horizons by traveling to new and exotic places to fulfill your dream of helping the planet, then try your search at Stopdodo.com and search environmental job listings from around the world, absolutely free. Equally, green based businesses located virtually anywhere in the world can list their environmentally beneficial positions at Stopdodo.com, also free. Stopdodo.com expands its search parameters to the global green job market and includes site translation of thirteen languages, which sets Stopdodo apart from some of the more established green job search sites.
Stopdodo.com officially launches next week and already has listings in 60 countries.
We thought it would be a good idea to create a global site that was free to advertise & search environmental jobs and free to list & search environmental resumes. That way the money is kept in conservation and environmental protection – for the benefit of our planet!
Furthermore, Stopdodo pledges to buy 100 square metres of rainforest every time an Employer signs-up and advertises with us*…It’s free to sign up - and free to advertise!
If you have a blog you might be interested in this new wiki, Million Blog List. Blogs can add their link to the list for free and include a maximum 500 word description. And if you post about the Million Blog List you can have your blog title in bold. You must include the banner in your post or place it on permanent display in your sidebar.
It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence. This is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on our site. Will it work? We think so. The experiment is to see how long will it take. What do you think? take our poll. We started April 10th, 2008.
It is a guess as to how viral this could become, but it only takes a few influential blogs to initiate the linking frenzy needed to reach the mega goal.
I added Eco-Thinker at #144 and as I write this, 12 hours later, the list has almost 300 submissions. One million is an ambitious number even for blogs and whether that goal can even be reached remains a mystery, but I casted my projection at 3-6 months in the poll.
I am no expert on wiki format, but it seems that there will be periods of mass submissions. Depending our how viral it might be at any given future point those edits will start overlapping each other.
Blogger_A submits her link at #50,000 at the same time as blogger_B, blogger_C, and blogger_D who also believe they are submitting their link as the #50,000 slot.
I admit I made a few mistakes and ended up edited three different times, all within a minute, but I did realize I might have saved over someone submitting just as or just before I clicked save. I tried the show preview and everything looked fine, then I clicked the show changes and realized I am not 142 anymore, but 144. I quickly realized how that could get messy with simultaneous saves. Unfamiliar with the wiki code I just copy/pasted the code segment above mine and made my changes.
If you are unfamiliar with the wiki code just use this template below:
or if you posted about the million blog list you will want your title bold:
I would suggest having your code with description ready to paste and save as soon as possible to avoid edit wrecks.
I have learned of many ingenious eco-architectural designs, but none have looked quite as spectacular as this entry into the 2008 Evolo Skycsraper Competition.
Planned for the northern coast of Chile, the 400 meter tall coiling tower collects the moisture from the unique coastal fog known locally as “Camanchaca“. The water molecules are trapped, then funneled downward into a basement area where trace minerals are filtered through a reverse osmosis system, which given the proper amount of filtration membranes reverse osmosis can filter out used pharmaceutical drugs and even fluorides. The clean water can then be distributed to support expansion of agricultural activity along the coast for the port city of Huasco. Designers Alberto Fernández and Susana Ortega have predicted that the spiraling pillars will gather a minimum 20,000 liters of water per day to a maximum of 200,000 liters/day.
Read the full article @:Inhabitat
Tags: Chile, Sustainable Development, water conservation, water from airAn Associated Press investigation found pharmaceuticals in nearly ever drinking water supply that they tested, including those of 24 major metropolitan areas across the nation. Nancy Cordes reports.
The reporter mentioned the antidepressant ingredient in Prozac. Fluoxetine, a fluoride compound, is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class of antidepressant, a known endocrine disruptor, meant to treat “clinical depression”. Here we are doing everything we can to live green and toxin free, buying natural soaps and cleaners, rejecting water fluoridation, and we find out the water is even worse than we could have imagined.
This is the source Associated Press link to the article. It has been removed. as you can see.
Tags: endocrine disruptor, Environmental Issues, PollutionPerhaps eco-newb is a bit much. The gentleman in the story after all does sell locally grown produce. Those of us green minded folk, who are subconsciously drawn to exploring the unlimited resourceful ways of minimizing our contribution to pollution, are often times reminded just how gratifying our work of educating on sustainable ideals can be.
While running some errands today I happened upon a new (to me) produce market baring “locally grown” signage. I enthusiastically pulled in for a peek at the goodies. Long story short, I found some amazing prices on some delectable fruits and veggies.
I walked up carrying my own tote bag, of course. I made my selections and the older merchant man reached for the plastic bags and I said “well we can just throw ‘em in here if you like”, in my own polite little way. He nodded and proceeded to fill er’ up.
The bag I was using was the one you’ve been bypassing in the WalMart lines for a few months now. That black and green recycled/reusable number that you should certainly pick up if you happen to be a WalMart shopper. The reason I make mention of this particular bag is because of the small graphic on the bag’s side grabbed the merchant’s attention. He read it aloud and said ‘well I’ll be’. I explained my story on living green, 98% of which he was already aware of. And after agreeing on the BYOB ideology he said he would be sure and tell his customers from there on out about bringing their own bags.
I facetiously asked him if he received his produce in plastic bags. He obviously chuckled and replied with a big “no”. I am glad I could make a difference, no matter how small it may seem.
As for the well established green shopper, you are more than likely well equipped with hemp, bamboo, or even organic cotton bags. A quick search reveals Reusable Bags, a site containing facts concerning plastic bag devastation as well as how to get your hands on some toxin free baggage.
“estimated at well over 500,000,000,000 (that’s 500 billion) plastic bags annually, or almost 1 million per minute”
Most of the plastic bags you see are polyethylene, a petroleum based plastic.
“Over 60 million tons of the material are produced worldwide every year” Wikipedia
Another quote from Reusable Bags on Ireland’s successful Plas Tax.
In 2001, Ireland consumed 1.2 billion plastic bags, or 316 per person. An extremely successful plastic bag consumption tax, or PlasTax, introduced in 2002 reduced consumption by 90%. Approximately 18,000,000 liters of oil have been saved due to this reduced production. Governments around the world are considering implementing similar measures.
How about that. A 90% reduction! Although I am not a huge fan of big government regulation, in the case of reducing plastic it might be justified. Here in the U.S. some cities are trying to curb the waste by banning plastic bags from major retailers. Do we really want the government to have to waste effort on our trashy ignorant habits? It was reported in 2005 by United Nations Environment Program that ‘currently over 13,000 pieces of plastic litter floating on every square kilometre of ocean’. That is unacceptable.
This has to start with you as the individual consumer. As common sense as it may seem to the choir upon which I preach, without being exposed to these ideas one will continue to think just as the status quo-upholders tell them.
Stop trekking your happy asses to the store knowing you’ll be hauling away plastic bags bound for a landfill, where it shall release poisons into the ecosystem for thousands of years. Do not be embarrassed because you rarely or even never see anyone bringing their own bag. Tell the lookers why you do it, as if they didn’t know. Say something like ‘currently over 13,000 pieces of plastic litter is floating on every square kilometre of ocean, do you really want to add to that?’ and say it loud. BYOFB. Figure that one out.
Tags: Environmental Issues, reusable bagsNow this is a fascinating idea. Not that it is a new idea since we can assume chemical-byproduct free water existed before we industrialized everything around it. A natural pool is the only way an eco-thinker can do any green swimming without having a beach handy, that is if beaches were waste free… These look very relaxing and I would love to try one out. You can find some truly impressive designs over at Woodhouse Natural Pools. The outdoor ambient sounds on the homepage are quite serene. I am still listening to it as I write.
Thanks Michael d’Estries at GroovyGreen for the great find!
For those of us in the U.S., a quick search led me to Total Habitat based in Bonner Springs, KS, says not to be fooled by installers unless certified by the Natural Swimming Pool Association, and sport this logo.
Here are a few pics from their site of their gorgeous work.
So this should give you something to think about when your skin is absorbing those toxic chemicals used to treat conventional swimming pools.
Tags: natural swimming pool
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