November 23rd, 2009
It is this time of the year again when we celebrate and meet with friends and family and Thanksgiving is a first step in the long period of festivities. So don’t forget to keep it green and to help you with it, below are a few tips on how to color this year’s holidays green:
Buy sustainable food—e.g. free-range or humanely raised turkey, which are becoming increasingly available and affordable. Take it one step further and buy heritage breed turkey, which strays away from the standardized factory turkeys promoting biodiversity.
Buy your food locally—this way will allow you to reduce youcarbon [...] Continue Reading…
November 22nd, 2009
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
I was surfing the internet a while ago and came across a link that was advertising natural chocolate so (the chocoholic that I am) I clicked on it and it took me to this wonderful website (Endangered Species Chocolate) where not only can you buy natural and sustainable chocolate and cocoa but you can also adopt an endangered species animal.
Looking at the pictures of these magnificent creatures I simply could not resist and thus without further ado I adopted a lioness and her two cubs (I am quite partial to lions) . They are the only [...] Continue Reading…
November 16th, 2009
Two extremely interesting and informative videos about one of England’s counties recycle program, which should be taken as an example to follow by all of us around the world.
November 14th, 2009
This is a video showing one of the world’s greenest homes broadcast by PlanetGreenTV