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An Airline with a Green Heart
I found myself on a flight recently (yes, I know!) to the East Coast. As I paged through Alaska Airlines’ in-flight magazine, an article by Keith Loveless entitled Waste Not caught my eye (page 9). In a highlighted sidebar there … Continue reading
Posted in My CO2 Footprint, Travel
Tagged airline, Alaska Air, Alaska Airlines, bottle filling stations, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, emissions, fossil fuels, green, in-flight magazine, Keith Loveless, luggage, packing, plastic bottles, reduce CO2, reusable bottles, reusable water bottles, Spirit of Alaska, sustainability, travel, waste not, water bottles
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Climate Shame
Or, climate change: it’s a shame. I’m starting to notice a trend, are you? A trend where people probably with the best intentions, use guilt and shame to try to get the rest of us to sacrifice for the greater good. … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Conservation, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged ashamed, climate, climate change, climate collective, climate distruption, climate morality, climate shame, climate solutions, Drew Faust, Ehrlich, Elegy, empathy, harvard, Humanity on a Tightrope, inclusion, KC Golden, Morality, NYT review of books, self-loathing, shame, Whidbey Institute, zadie smith
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Climate Disruption Labyrinth
Cascadia Climate Collaborative held a two-day climate conference at Whidbey Institute last weekend. It felt like a journey. I had a sense it wasn’t going to be a typical conference when it was kicked of by a Native American, Paul, … Continue reading
Posted in Green Friends, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged Alec Loorz, climate clahnge, climate disruption, fossil fuels, Gain, Kathleen Dean Moore, labyrinth, Lifeblood, Matthew Huber, Moral Ground, Pen and Bell, Present Shock, Whidbey Institute, Wild Comfort
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Oil Trains in Seattle
Sightline’s Eric de Place and Senator Christine Rolfes visit Bainbridge Island to Discuss Oil Trains Slated for Seattle The Oil on Water Event, Co-sponsored by Coal-Free Bainbridge, Sustainable Bainbridge and Eagle Harbor Congregational Church was standing room only, with more … Continue reading
Posted in My CO2 Footprint
Tagged Anne Blair, Bakken, beyond coal, Christine Rolfes, Coal-Free Bainbridge, Colstrip Montana, Eric de Place, Erika Shriner, exploding trains, Grays Harbor, natural gas, oil trains, Rebecca Ponzio, seattle, Senator Rolfes, sierra club, Sightline, sustainable bainbridge, tar sands, Val Tollefson, Washington Environmental Council, WEC
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Sustainable Bainbridge’s Zero Waste Starts BYOM Campaign
Starting April 1st, Sustainable Bainbridge’s Zero Waste along with the help of Buy Nothing Bainbridge (BNB), is launching a waste reduction campaign called BYOM (Bring Your Own to-go Mug) in honor of Earth Day. The campaign entails posting BYOM clings … Continue reading
Posted in Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Saving Money
Tagged Earth Day, Farmers Market, sustainable bainbridge, to go mugs, to-go, to-go cups, togo, waste reduction, zero waste
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The Cruelty of Planned Obsolescence
There is nothing wrong with my Mac PowerBook except that it is now a world onto itself. It’s cut off from the outside, unable to upgrade its OS 9.0.4 and therefore the browsers needed to interact with the internet, its … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, At Work, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling
Tagged obsolescence, planned obsolescence, recycling, reuse, technology, waste
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Divestment and You
If you don’t manage a stock portfolio you might be thinking: “divestment has nothing to do with me.” However, if you’re employed and over 40, even if you don’t own stocks, you probably have a 401K or retirement fund or … Continue reading
Posted in At Work, Green Ideas, Saving Money
Tagged 401K, bonds, ceres, clean energy bonds, clean energy investing, climate change, coal, fossil fuels, funds, Goldman Sachs, green stocks, investing, investors, natural gas, portfolio, reduce risk, retirement, risk mitigation, solar, Solarcity, stocks, water consumption
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Internet Powered by 100% Renewable Energy: Step One
The internet is so ubiquitous most people don’t even think about it. It surrounds us. (Like the Matrix.) We need to take a minute and think about it though. It’s comprised of a network of servers in data centers around … Continue reading
Solar Chargers – not just for vacation anymore
Spoiler alert: the following may seem like a no-brainer. And, it is. Sometimes it just takes someone else to reframe things for me to see something clearly, differently, or to apply a new use – does that ever happen to … Continue reading
HAPPY Green ReNEWables YEAR!
Are you a New Years Resolution person? I’m not, but I find myself trying a juice cleanse this year. And, I have run right up against my wavering willpower. “Wavering,” you ask? Yes, I find, when I do something just … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling
Tagged air pollution, china, farming, farmland soil pollution, juicing, meatless mondays, new years resolutions, plastic, vegan, vegetables, veggies
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