[1 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 34 views]
Makes You Think – What Should We Do Regarding the Climate Crisis?

Please, watch this video on YouTube – the whole thing – before you leave this site. It’s too important to miss.

Now there’s even more:
Logical Response
What do YOU think?
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[25 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 93 views]
A Year Ago at Green Your Apartment

A bit on how laundry can get greener and some great tips from around the web on how to live green. Read the post for the links!

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[11 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 167 views]
A Year Ago at Green Your Apartment

We wrote about the chemicals in your beauty products and why reusable shopping bags are the way to go. See the post for the goods!

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[5 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 151 views]
A Year Ago at Green Your Apartment

We covered decreasing your electricity use and your indoor air pollution. Click on the post to get the links.

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[9 Dec 2009 | One Comment | 261 views]
What is High Fructose Corn Syrup?

For years, the health community has been railing against high fructose corn syrup and how you shouldn’t eat anything with it in it. Recently, the Corn Refiner’s Association decided to air a series of television commercials plugging high fructose corn syrup as (and I quote) “is natural”, “has the same calories as sugar or honey”, “is nutritionally the same as sugar”, and “is fine in moderation”. (If you haven’t seen the ads, head to YouTube and search “high fructose corn syrup commercials”.) Clearly, it appears that the public at large doesn’t actually know what high fructose corn syrup is or what the hullabaloo is all about. Is it bad? Worse than sugar? Better than sugar?

So let’s set the record straight.

For the Greenhorns »

[8 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 259 views]
It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Does it matter if the scientists and liberal media et alii are wrong and the climate is just doing its thing? What would be wrong with conserving your (I’m assuming) hard earned money and the resources we have? Abundant or otherwise, shouldn’t we wisely use as little as comfortably possible so we do not tax our resources unnecessarily and spend more of our personal resources (time, money, energy) than necessary to live a comfortable life?