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Most Honest Ad for Oil Ever!

With all of the greenwashed adds for oil companies like BP, it is nice for a change to look at and add that really speaks the truth.  This ad by Humble Oil (now part of Exxon) from 1962 is possibly the most honest straight forward add I have ever seen.  

Maybe BP needs to take [...]

Bike to Work Day Denver

In many cities around the country, the official bike to work day has already passed, but here in Denver and many other mountainous cities, the weather is a little less predictable in May and so Bike to work Day is moved to late June.  Here in Denver, I will be participating in Bike to work Day on [...]

California Bans Plastic Shopping Bags

Well, the trend is catching on and it wont be long before it sweeps the nation.  We told you when D.C. started the plastic bag revolution by putting a $0.05 tax on every bag used and now California has gone one step further: they have banned plastic bags all together.  Last week, the California general assembly banned [...]

Reusing Empty Swimming Pools

It is easy to get bogged down in the recession, espicially if you are out of work or livng in California.  So it is important to think about some of the benefits that come from this crazy situation.  I thought that this video showed not only the amazing amount of waste and overspending that was prevalent during [...]

MA Town to be the First to Ban Bottled Water

thanks to Treehugger

The town of Concord MA has passed a new law (going into effect next January) that will ban bottled water from being sold there. This is the first law banning bottled water outright, but there are more than 100 towns across the country that already prohibit spending City money on the product [...]

Some Positive News on Climate Change

After reading the EPA report on climate change last week, I thought that we could all probably use some positive news as well.  According to the Energy Information Administration, the US carbon dioxide emissions fell by 7% in 2009.  This was the largest drop in emission in over 20 years, and while a third of [...]