LIVE & LEARN GREEN!

Learn How To Utilize Natural Building Materials, Produce Organic Foods Through Sustainable Means and Help Others Find Their "Green" Thumbs!

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HOW CAN RENTERS GET IN ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY?

FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW:

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR RENTAL HOUSING

GREEN LANDLORDS PROJECT

WHAT ARE YOUR GREEN HABITS?!

Here's a list of "green" habits I do and "non-green" habits I am hoping to break!

GREEN DOs

Recycle all my glass, plastic, and cardboard
Use my bicycle, walk, car pool or take public transportation everywhere I go!
Buy 95% of my clothing, housewares, home decor, fabric, etc. second hand
Wear very few beauty products and purchase the products I do use from eco-friendly/socially conscious companies
Always turn off my lights when not in use!
Use energy efficient light bulbs!
Monitor leaky faucets
Re-use plastic bags and use homemade cloth bags for shopping, etc.
Use re-usable wet/dry bag for the rags I use for work
Refuse to ride with friends who own gas guzzling vehicles!
Live as a minimalist - I use what I need and donate what I don't use!
Use eco-friendly cleaning solutions
Use an apartment sized compost and I have it picked up bi-weekly!

*We actually have 3 companies in Victoria, BC that will pick up your compost for you and bring it to a local composting site

Compost Pick-up 1
Compost Pick-up 2
My Compost Pick-up!


NON-GREEN HABITS TO BREAK!

Take longer showers than I truly need!
Live in a less than eco-friendly apartment building!
Do not have a garden or plants growing in my home!
Buy products that are not manufactured by eco-friendly, socially conscious companies!
Some of my clients choose not to use eco-friendly products - I am trying to convince them otherwise!

What's your GREEN HABIT list look like? Please post it in your comments if you wish!

OFF THE GRID WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY?

Living off the grid with renewable energy. It can work, but for whom and where? What do you think?

more about "untitled", posted with vodpod

Can We Do It In The City?

What Does This Mean To You?

This is a photo of an abandoned farmers market...

What do you think when you see this? Post your opinions in your comments below.

*Photo by Charles Knox

Water Guzzling Showers?!

more about "Water Guzzling Showers?!", posted with vodpod

Go On, Obama

"The Tyranny of Oil" angered me. I suggest you read it. I think Obama should do something so extreme and awesome that he'd go down in history, hopefully for the better. Overnight, he should completely nationalize all the US oil companies. The entire US oil industry should be brought into public ownership, and all their directors and board members kicked out (but not shot, this isn't 1917). He could use their extreme profits to finance any infrastructure project he could dream up. Hell, even if he at least made them pay as much tax as the average working man...

DO IT!

And no, I don't think GM should be nationalized. Why nationalize losses when you can nationalize profit?