Ed's Green Blog http://blog.ecochange.org Sustainable Tips, Ideas, News, & Rants Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en Watch Food, Inc. now! http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/watch-food-inc-now/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/watch-food-inc-now/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:35:39 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/watch-food-inc-now/ Excellent Documentary on America’s Food industry.

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]]> http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/watch-food-inc-now/feed/ Buy & Use Klean Kanteen Reusable Stainless Steel Bottles! http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/buy-use-klean-kanteen-reusable-stainless-steel-bottles/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/buy-use-klean-kanteen-reusable-stainless-steel-bottles/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:32:21 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/buy-use-klean-kanteen-reusable-stainless-steel-bottles/ Some reusable Aluminum Bottles might have a BPA lined coating on the inside.

Buy a reusable Stainless Steel Bottle instead, like these from Klean Kanteen:

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]]> http://blog.ecochange.org/2010/02/12/buy-use-klean-kanteen-reusable-stainless-steel-bottles/feed/ Check out this Cool Carbon Calculator http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/10/09/check-out-this-cool-carbon-calculator/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/10/09/check-out-this-cool-carbon-calculator/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:01:30 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/10/09/check-out-this-cool-carbon-calculator/ carbon-calculator.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/climate-change/global-emissions.html

]]> http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/10/09/check-out-this-cool-carbon-calculator/feed/ Chevy hopes an estimated 230 mpg will give its Volt a charge - NJ.com http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/08/12/chevy-hopes-an-estimated-230-mpg-will-give-its-volt-a-charge-njcom/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/08/12/chevy-hopes-an-estimated-230-mpg-will-give-its-volt-a-charge-njcom/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:17:05 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/08/12/chevy-hopes-an-estimated-230-mpg-will-give-its-volt-a-charge-njcom/ large_chevrolet-volt.jpg

Chevy hopes an estimated 230 mpg will give its Volt a charge - NJ.com

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Set your water heater thermostat to about 120F or between low and medium. You won’t feel the difference in the shower, your stuff in the dishwasher will still be sterilized and you’ll save about $25 a year.

]]> http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/05/05/turn-the-dial/feed/ Top 20 Eco-Pioneer Green Rich List http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/30/top-20-eco-pioneer-green-rich-list/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/30/top-20-eco-pioneer-green-rich-list/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:14:08 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/30/top-20-eco-pioneer-green-rich-list/ 1 Warren Buffett USA £27bn Wind power

2 BillGates USA £26bn Renewable fuel

3 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden £22bn Renewable energy

4 MarcelBrenninkmeijer Holland £19bn Natural power

5 MukeshAmbani India £15bn Life sciences

6 Michael Bloomberg USA £14.4bn Natural energy

7 Michael Otto Germany £13.2bn Green products

8 Paul Allen USA £11.5bn Natural fuels

9 Donald Bren USA £8.2bn Environmental research

10=Sergey Brin USA £7.5bn Green energy

10= Larry Page USA £7.5bn Green energy

12 Serge Dassault France £7.5bn Electric cars

13 Andreas and Thomas Strungmann Germany £6.8bn Solar power

14 Hansjörg Wyss Switzerland £6bn Open spaces

15 Philip Anschutz USA £5.8bn Wind power

16 Hans Rausing UK £4bn Packaging

17 Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen Denmark £3bn Toymaker

18 Dennis Washington USA £2.7bn Conservation

19 Alicia and Tannetta Fentener van Vlissingen Holland £2.4bn Conservation

20 José Manuel Entrecanales Spain £2.3bn Renewable energy

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]]> http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/17/humans-are-making-an-impact/feed/ The USA is the #1 Trash Producing Country in the World. http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/17/the-usa-is-the-1-trash-producing-country-in-the-world-2/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/17/the-usa-is-the-1-trash-producing-country-in-the-world-2/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:54:32 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/17/the-usa-is-the-1-trash-producing-country-in-the-world-2/ The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.

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* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!

* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

* To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.

* If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.

* Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!

* Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

* The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.

* A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it’s in the landfill.

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Please recycle!

Set up bins for paper, newspaper, glossy magazines & junk mail, cardboard, glass bottles, aluminum cans, batteries, light bulbs, old electronic equipment.

 Please avoid throwing this stuff away!

Please fight the temptation of out of sight, out of mind!

Every little discarded thing adds to an already enormous pile!

If you have to throw something away, make sure its biodegradable!

]]> http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/17/the-usa-is-the-1-trash-producing-country-in-the-world-2/feed/ Mini Hydrogren Fuel Cell Power Plants For Every Home! http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/15/mini-hydrogren-fuel-cell-power-plants-for-every-home/ http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/15/mini-hydrogren-fuel-cell-power-plants-for-every-home/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:57:31 +0000 Ed http://blog.ecochange.org/2009/04/15/mini-hydrogren-fuel-cell-power-plants-for-every-home/ Trials by companies including Panasonic and Toyota are underway at 3,000 homes throughout Japan, to bring mini hydrogen power plants into backyards that will provide heat and power while emitting a fraction of the carbon dioxide of normal energy sources by using a hydrogen fuel cell to convert natural gas into electricity. It’s called a fuel cell co-generation system.  You  can be read about it here:

http://www.physorg.com/news127483336.html

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