Category: Green news

Nearbio is a website that provides locations of biodiesel stations or pumps. You can even get directions using your computer or cellphone. Their biofuel route wizard can help you plan your biofuel stops on your next road trip.

Stew Leonard’s is now promoting reusable bags. I saw it tonight when we went there.

Mobile networks are taking responsibility for the environment in a bigger way apart from taking back and recycling their phones. Global warming might make the waters of Antarctic particularly inviting to sharks–and cause havoc to the ecosystem! Environmentally friendly textiles are slowly, but surely getting the attention of designers. I’m very happy to see piña…

Eco-Limo – get around LA, SF, or DC in one of seven car options, including a Lexus 400h or Mercedes E320 ($45-$85/hr). Elite Green Car – chauffeurs you around Atlanta in a Lexus RX 400 ($56/hr). Green Limousine – a biodiesel Ford Excursion helps you hit the slopes in CO ($70-$80/hr). Green Car Limo –…

I stumbled upon this bit of good news (“Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet From London”) from our airline industry. Kudos to Virgin Atlantic! Here’s hoping other airlines will follow suit. The second paragraph of the article (see below) was just a bit annoying to read: Some analysts praised the jumbo jet test flight from London to…

Saw this on Common Ground: If you need eco-related movies, Green Planet Films lets you order DVDs online and they’ll mail it to you. You can keep it for a month then send it back for free. It’s like Netflix for the green consumer.

Well well well, you do pick up something new everyday. I wouldn’t have thought that there was a contest at all for the title of eco-friendly orange juice between canned frozen orange juice and non-concentrates in cartons. Check out Slate’s The Green Lantern if you need this issue cleared up as well.

Those who are familiar with the “Knight Rider” would, of course, know KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). NBC recently showed a two-hour movie of “Knight Rider” that showed a more modern KITT. Now KITT stands for Knight Industries Three Thousand. I admit, KITT is not real. But come on, isn’t it just fun that he’s…

I saw a pamphlet for an aquatic continuing education course at the Desert Pain Institute in Arizona. It caught my eye because aside from using Feng Shui and Biogeometry principles, it is supposedly a green building. So if you’re in the area and need Physical Therapy and other treatments for chronic pain, check it out.

Now here’s something to show everyone how one person’s efforts can make a big difference. Liu Ying, a 78-year-old woman in China, has been making shopping bags since 1992 and giving them away to all her neighbors. She wishes everyone else would start seeing just how terrible plastic bags are for the environment, but she…