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Mon, Aug 10 2009 at 11:59 PM
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Mon, Aug 10 2009 at 1:30 PM
Greetings.
I just got off the telephone with Leonard. He asked me to tell you that we must 'keep up the pressure, we can't relax' so I'm passing on that message....Read this blog
Sun, Aug 02 2009 at 10:36 AM
Putting plans together for grn park austin. Will be held one of the first weeks in November in downtown Austin, Texas. Lots of great green building projects in Austin, TX. Austin has a population of approximately 500,000 people with a stong eco centric base.
Examples of Green Building...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:33 AM
I was at Six Flags the other day with my friend Tyrekus. I have known him since he was three and his anxious 10 year old body was ready for the big trip.
As we were standing in yet another crowded hot line, a tribute to Michael Jackson came up on the TV screen. They were showing one of his last...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:31 AM
We have a tragedy happening in my neighborhood. I live in a neighborhood just south of Decatur. In fact part of our main road through the neighborhood is in the City of Decatur. Our neighborhood and Winnona Park have worked for over ten years to get the best development possible on the last large...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:29 AM
A while back, I got an e-mail saying that if people stopped taking bank receipts from ATM machines that we could wrap the world several times over the long tape of paper we would save.
So my question is how many times could we wrap the world if people stopped using straws? I really don't have a...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:28 AM
I attended the Sustainable Atlanta Round Table a hundred years ago and heard some of the leading women in the green community speak. And although I didn’t blog about it then, it stuck! So better late than never, I think
SART continuously provides high quality presentations. Every time I attend I am...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:26 AM
Normally, I spend my blogs talking about the lighter side of green things that we all can do as individuals. This time, I wanted to take a little time to talk about the more serious global side of things.
A while back, all good Southern stories start with a while back by the way; Anderson Cooper...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:20 AM
"It only takes a spark to get a fire going" is a phrase that we used to sing around Girl Scout campfires. Making green changes is the same thing.
I was tickled when I heard my sister recently talking about her efforts to recycle all the card board from a school event. Even more delighted to hear...Read this blog
Sat, Aug 01 2009 at 10:17 AM
Recently it was reported on an evening news program that 16 billion gallons of oil are used each year…not on cars…but on making plastic items.
It’s shocking and it’s bad, really bad. Collectively everyone needs to seriously recalibrate how they think about oil consumption. It seems like oil is...Read this blog
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