Archive for the 'Going Green' Category

Earth Hour - Lights Out!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Yesterday, cities across the globe started turning off their lights in support of Earth Hour. Earth Hour started out in Sydney last year and since then other cities and coutnries have joined the movement.
In the US, I don’t think Earth Hour has gained any media mileage. At all. For one, the political circus in [...]

A Load of Trash

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

My RedBook Magazine finally arrived. And as I was perusing it, something caught my eye: Garbage stats.
Drum roll. The United States may hold only 6% of the world’s population but it certainly knows how to waste things. The US produces 50% of the world’s garbage.
More stats: In a day, a person living in the US [...]