Send Halloween E-Cards for a Cause and Some Laughs

I’m horrible when it comes to sending personal correspondence. I’m the person that remembers that birthday, holiday or other cards need to be mailed the week before, then I forget it until the day of. Luckily for me, there’s a wonderful little thing called email. I save money (no postage), and I don’t generate more refuse to be tossed into a landfill. Check out Grist’s Halloween e-cards. Put a smile on a friend’s face, and spread the word, they can help make our enviroment a healthier one.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Stops By The Reservation

Even if you don’t yet own a home, it doesn’t hurt to have some ideas in mind for the future. ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition built a “green” home from scratch for a Navajo family during its latest episode. The Yazzie family went from a dilapidated trailer to a spacious four bedroom, solar and wind powered, and green insulated home with a locally supplied water source. Watch the full episode at ABC.com. You can also visit the EMHE, Green Element, page to view more examples of green home design.

Living Green In The City

The changes in our environment are having broad ranging effects on all of us on planet earth. Whether you live close to nature in the wilds of Alaska, or in the heart of an urban center, you know that the world is getting warmer, acquiring food a little harder or more costly, and that the seasons aren’t quite what they used to be.

In order to prevent the dire predicitons of environmentalists and scientists becoming a foregone conclusion, everyday people and industrial players are going to have to change the way they operate. The negative effects of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, as well as the pollution generated by business and daily living, can be curbed if everyone makes simple changes that conserve energy and resources.

This challenge to the modern lifestyle many us know and love also holds a silver lining. It could provide a partial solution to the economic and social challenges which face many people living in urban and former manufacturing centers. In short, it could be the gateway to jobs, financial security and social stability for those people currently classified as unemployed and the working poor.

Check out the proposal at Green for All, and watch this Link TV footage featuring Van Jones of the Green for All Initiative: