Archive for August, 2009

Can You Bike Your Way To Power Small Appliances?

Biking for electricity! If you’re a sports fan, you’ve doubtless seen those commercials on ESPN.  A sportscaster is trying to work in his little cubicle, but the overhead light flickers.  He gets up, walks down the corridor, opens a door marked Generator Room, and inside is bicyclist Lance Armstrong, taking a break.  “What’s up?” says the sportscaster. Armstrong apologizes quickly and starts pedaling again. Last year, the TV series Bones gave a similar example, when a “green enthusiast” offered to make the two main characters a fruit smoothie.  He places the ingredients in a blender, then gets on a stationary bike in the middle of the kitchen and starts pedaling.  The blender flickers into life.  “Saves electricity and is a great way to keep fit,” the character points out. But have people done it in real life?  And more to the point, can you do it? The answers are, yes, and; of course you can! A site called Instructables shows you how to build your own bike blender.  Or you can purchase one from a site called The Juice Peddler, located in San Francisco, California.  (That’s just one example.  Make sure you check the web for their competitors, and do a little comparison shopping.  We ...

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Guide to Green Fashion

There are so many green options out there that can bring to our green living lifestyle a good chance to looks great. This green fashion guide will give an idea of what to wear. Bags made from green and reusable materials. The purpose of this video is to cut down the using of the dangerous plastic bag. You can see: Candy wrappers bags Bags from recycle movie posters Bags made of recycle seat belts Bags made of tractor inner tubes Hemp bags Old Skateboard desks jewelers Cans jewelers Enjoy it; be sure to make a comment of whatever about green fashion. Thanks.

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How Can You Help Your Child’s School Go Green?

If you have been wondering how you can help your child’s school go green, you have come to the right place!  It is important for all of us to work together in order to ensure that we are protecting our environment, and our world on the whole.  It is important that educational facilities such as public schools, private schools, and other types of educational institutions work with our children, and teach them the importance of properly protecting the environment.  Your child and their peers are the future of the world.  If we get them involved now, there is hope for a safe and sound environment in their future.  Here, you will learn how to help your child’s school go green. 1.    The first thing that you can do to encourage your child’s school to go green is to meet with the principal and other advisors at the school community, including the superintendent.  You should stress to them the importance of taking an active role in the community efforts to live in an earth-friendly manner.  In addition to the benefits that will take place to the environment, it is important to ...

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Take Care Of That Water Leak

Did you know how much water you're losing from a leaky faucet?  A slow leak - about one drop every two seconds - wastes three gallons a day.  That's the equivalent of taking an extra twenty-seven baths every year.  Worse - a leaky toilet can lose about twenty two gallons a day!  It's the little stuff that counts when it comes to reducing waste.  However, it's also hard to convince ourselves to deal with this kind of little stuff.   It's time to start looking into the places where our homes create waste and deal with it.  You'll save money and have a much lower environmental impact. Start by fixing those leaks, and then take a look at other options, too.  If you have air leaks in your home (around windows and doors, in the attic, or in other areas), you're losing heat in the winter and gaining it in the summer.  That causes your energy bills to rise and more fuel to be used, no matter how you heat and cool your home.  Take a look at your options for sealing those windows, doors, and other leaks.  You'll ...

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Victory Gardens - How To Start A Community Garden

On March 19, 2009, the New York Times reported that First Lady Obama was preparing the ground for the first vegetable garden at the White House since the time of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden, during World War II.  The garden was to be organic, and would provide fresh-grown vegetables for the White House dinner table.  Children from a nearby school would help her prepare and plant the garden, and the garden was to be used as a teaching tool – to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern.  Mrs. Obama told the reporters that it was her hope that the children would then begin to educate their families “and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities.” The White House Garden was not the first of its kind, of course.  Many schools and even communities have had established vegetable gardens for several years. If you would like to start a community garden, there is, of course, a website chock-full of information on how to do so, called communitygarden.org.  It’s the website of the American Community ...

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