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Grant’s Grunts » Building Green

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Grant’s Grunts » Building Green
At any rate, are we fooling ourselves? I know reducing the energy we use is a good thing, so the well-insulated house and energy star appliances are all good. I also know using the low VOC stuff is good. And the Solar Water heater makes A LOT of [...]

Kick the oil habit and make your own ethanol - Yahoo! News

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Kick the oil habit and make your own ethanol - Yahoo! News
Kind of interesting idea.  I like the “off the grid” element to it and the fact that it allows consumers to have control.  Still, not sure how well it will work and I doubt I would be an early adopter since I don’t drive [...]

Ironies of the Environmental Age

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Ah, the ironies of the age we live in.  I was just looking at a box of “Annie’s Homegrown Bunny Grahams” (boy, they are good) and noticed the following on the side of the box:
“Recycle and encourage others to do so with our Annie’s ‘Recycle’ sticker, visit www.annies.com or simply send us a self-addressed, stamped [...]

Global Warming as Global Distraction

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I don’t doubt the earth may be getting a bit warmer (30 years ago we were predicting an ice age) but that probably isn’t that big of a deal in terms of the Earth (it may suck for a time, but, it probably doesn’t mean the end of our existence as I believe we will [...]