Archive for February, 2008

The Business of Green Part 2: Janice Sitton of Good Green Graces

I first met Janice Sitton during my tour of the San Francisco recycling center and transfer station, aka The Dump. Janice was one of the attendees, but she also seemed to know an awful lot about recycling and garbage already. She explained to me that she was a member of the Northern California Recycling Association [...]

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Blog Posts…

I was happily surprised this morning to discover that this blog has been added to Blogger’s list of Blogs of Note which means that it appears on the front page and dashboard of Blogger for 10 days, available to anyone who logs on to their Blogger account. This was completely unexpected and welcome. And what’s [...]

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The Business of Green Part 1: Doug Farquhar of Renovos & BuyGreen.com

Have you heard the complaint that living in a sustainable way simply costs too much money? Well, there are a few people out there who would beg to differ. Since I began my own journey into the world of environmental responsibility, I’ve met some great people who not only think we can save money and [...]

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Bag Monsters afoot…

Have you seen the plastic Bag Monster? I see it all over the place. Blowing down the street, clogging the gutter, floating in Lake Merritt, and even hiding in my own kitchen. I shot this quick footage of a Bag Monster battle taking place on the steps of SF City Hall last November: But seriously. [...]

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Week 36 Results: .6 oz of plastic waste. The day has finally come!

Oh joy! I’ve been waiting for the week when my plastic waste would finally fit easily in my own two hands, and this was that week. Don’t get me wrong. We still have plastic in this house that we’re using up, and the tally will go up again. But it’s nice to savor small victories. [...]

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VBW Day a guest post by Michael, aka terrible person

“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?” — Rushmore So (I find myself beginning almost anything I write these days with the word “so”. I may have picked it up from my high school Russian teacher, my favorite teacher ever, who was German. Or it may be a translation of “Hwaet”, the Old English [...]

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Weekly Recipe: Huevos Rancheros

This dish is about 90% homemade. I didn’t lay the eggs or grow the vegetables or make the butter (although I could have using Crunchy Chicken’s instructions) or broth. But I did everything else by myself. And just to be clear, the reason for including these weekly recipes is not because I’m a great cook, [...]

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Terracycle & Clif Bar: Shades of Green

Michael called me at work tonight to say he’d just heard that Clif Bar has a new program to take back its plastic energy bar wrappers and “upcycle” them in a partnership with Terracycle, the good folks who got sued by Scotts Miracle Grow for selling worm poop compost in recycled soda bottles and claiming [...]

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Confessions of a Greedy Green Blogger

I have a few things to get off my chest tonight. My dad, of course, would disagree and say I don’t have much in that department to lose. He’s inappropriate that way sometimes. But hey, if Vanessa can write about getting naked with her parents… Oh, dear. I think I’m getting punchy at 2am. Okay, [...]

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Shocked! Shocked to find that advertising is going on in here!

That’s right. I held off accepting advertising on this here blog for a very long time. Google Ads were not right for me because, although you can specify the types of ads you’ll accept, as far as I know you can’t accept or reject specific ads. Also, I was concerned about appearing biased in my [...]

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