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New Sustainable Guru!! Woo hoo!!

In October 2009, President Obama created an executive order for federal sustainablilty. The General Services Administration has created the position, the Chief Greening Officer. The Chief Greening...

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Is Wal-Mart becoming more “sustainable?”

In late February, Wal-Mart decided that they are “going green” by reducing their carbon footprint. Their plan is to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2015.  To do this, Wal-Mart...

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Wildlife Trade: Third Largest Illegal Trade

Wildlife trade is the third largest trade after guns and drugs. Tigers in Asia are on the verge of extinction. 20 years ago there were 100,000 Tigers in Asia, and now there are only 3,200 in the wild....

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Paper or …Paper?

On February 2nd, A hearing on the senate Bill 1009 was held before the state environmental committee to ban single use plastic bags statewide, and would prohibit the use of plastic bags as checkout...

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Australia Heating Up

“We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate. We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken,” said Megan Clark,...

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Oregon wind/solar streetlight

Manufactured right here in Portland, Oregon Wind’s new streetlights could potentially revolutionize our way of powering the cities streets. Produced completely from recycled material and are safe for...

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Portland Chickens

This link to http://www.growing-gardens.org/portland-gardening-resources/chickens.php is pretty much all you need to know about upcoming events with urban chicken farming in Portland. The link gives...

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Sustainability Rap

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Who killed the electric car?

I just watched this mocie and i found it very intrrguing. This documentary shows you alternatives to fuel cars have already been established and are being improved by individual people since the car...

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2012

As all of you can probably tell i am really into the History Channel. I absolutely love it! When I was watching it one day I was watching one show called The Universe, it is all about what is going on...

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WASTED- e-wasted that is…

We’re all on a technological pursuit of happiness. We’ve all made tech upgrades. Remember cassette players and walkmans? Technology is improving, but our environmental situation isn’t. Before you throw...

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