Environmental Impact

Riding a bike is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint

How can one person make a difference for the environment?  How do you measure your carbon footprint?  How come baby Albatrosses are dying on remote, uninhabited islands in the Pacific Northwest?  Here you’ll find a reality check and a way to connect the dots — making the case that we are all really a part of ONE planet. Only one!

Radio Shows

Gulf Monitoring Consortium – Guests from SkyTruth, SouthWings & Waterkeeper

01.16.12

Remember the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Lots of us do. This consortium is an innovative partnership that is systematically monitoring oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico with satellite images and mapping, aerial reconnaissance and photography, and on-the-water observation and sampling.

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Mrs. Green's News


01.03.12
RISE to the Occasion

The New Year always brings about an enthusiasm for doing the right thing – whether it be exercising more regularly, eating right, reading more or acquiring more sustainable habits! (At least I hope that made the cut!) Given that lots of people I know received some kind of electronic device for Christmas this year, I’d [...]

12.21.11
Some Simple Green End of Year Thoughts

Try as I might, I just couldn’t wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and leave it at that. I can, however, promise this will be short because we are all busy spending time with family and friends or getting ready to.

12.15.11
Green Christmas Giving: Part Two

Thought I would share with you the letter Rod wrote to his entire extended family about the well project in Africa.  Still pretty incredible, wonderful & awesome that the inspiration came from a ninth grader. “I have a Christmas gift idea for all of us. Last week Jordan did an English class persuasive speech on [...]

11.23.11
Giving Thanks

I went back and forth about how to start this newsletter. Giving thanks? Thoughts on making your Black Friday green? Amazing feedback from the last newsletter? Giving thanks won but I’ve covered them all.

Blog


01.04.12
New Unisource HQ & Redevelopment
01.03.12
RISE to the Occasion
12.18.11
Pesky Plastic Bottle Post
12.15.11
Green Christmas Giving: Part Two
12.14.11
How a Ninth Grader is Changing the World
10.14.11
Your Skin: A Toxic Toilet Bowl or Healthy Heaven?
10.12.11
How Green is Your Bookstore?

Links and Resources

Chris Jordan increases awareness through art.

Did You Know?


Three Things About the HabiStore!

1. They divert more than 200 TONS of materials from the landfills each year by selling new and used cool stuff like home improvement materials, appliances, and furniture – including really awesome patio furniture and light fixtures.
2. The revenue generated from the HabiStore is used to build houses for low income families who qualify. At press time, they have over 14 houses under construction in Tucson. Are you kidding me right now? Talk about ending cycles of poverty forever – home ownership does that.
3. The HabiStore is green from the inside out! They have HETs (high efficiency toilets from Big John the Toilet Guy). They have gone solar! In a partnership with GeoInnovation, the HabiStore received a grant from the Arizona Department of Commerce to install enough solar to provide 30% of their electricity (huge savings each month) and they are working on rain water harvesting.