Episode 30: Rethinking Energy: The Smart Grid

Lightbulbs!

I recently picked up a number of lightbulbs at Home Depot, where 40 Watt equivalent bulbs were on sale for 10 dollars. There has never been a better time to swap those CFL’s for LED’s.

News

Inhabitat – Al Gore Compares Investing in Oil and Gas to Subprime Mortgage Crises and Lays Out “A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism”

Grist – Congress toys with the future of wind energy

Grist – Lets ban toilet paper

Treehugger.com – Why Big Oil May Be Afraid of Bicycles

Grist – Disaster cooking 101: How to cook after a catastrophe

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Episode 29: The Ultimate Reuse (Compost)

Back to the Roots

For this show I interviewed ed from Back to the Roots, the company I mentioned last week as producing the grow your own mushrooms kit. You can find out more about Back to the Roots on their website or on their Facebook page. You can also post photos of your mushroom growing kits on their Facebook page, they do a one-to-one donation for each picture, providing a mushroom kit and lesson plan to a school!.

News

Treehugger.com – 68% of Europe’s New Electricity Came From Wind & Solar Power Last Year

Treehugger.com – Department of Energy loan program less risky than expected by congress

Sweden builds 18-story greenhouse

Never mind the meat — worry about eating enough plants

Tell your senators: Hold the line in the tar sands

Five ways to argue with a Keystone XL pipeline supporter

Treehugger.com – Environmental Extremists Are An Asset to Our Movement

Treehugger.com – Energy Management System Combines Solar, Energy Software and Power Storage

Composting!

Composting for Beginners

Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio

What to Compost

Indoor Composting without the worms

Music

AFI – Halloween
Sparta – Air

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Episode 28: Caffeine & Me (Plus sustainable farming)

Sustainable Farming

Veganic Farming Video

How farms are using permaculture to survive

Why does agriculture keep getting a climate pass?

No, that’s not snow: Pesticides coat California’s Central Valley

News

A challenge to chefs: Make me a delicious vegetarian entree — or stop claiming to care about sustainability

Donald Trump Picks a Mean Fight with Scotland Over Offshore Wind

Is Sustainable Home Construction Booming? It Depends Who You Calling Sustainable.

New Wastewater Treatment Tech Ditches Chemicals, Generates Clean Energy

Walmart’s biggest green feat: Putting sustainability on the corporate agenda

Study: Green economy lost fewer jobs in the recession

Two US startups break solar efficiency records, aim to light up your life

When You Wash Your Clothes, You Release Microplastic Fibers Into the Oceans

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Episode 27: Spore Matters (plus Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior III)

The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior III

More About the Rainbow Warrior III

Greenpeace

News

Grist – Why Buildings Haven’t Gotten More Efficient in 20 Years

Grist – Animated Guide to Building a Keystone XL

Inhabitat – Mitsubishi’s i-MIEV Electric Car Grabs the “Greenest” Vehicle Title From the Honda Civic

Grist – How does the rebound effect fit into the big picture on climate change?

Treehugger.com – Semprius Sets a New Concentrated Solar Efficiency Record with 33.9%!

Treehugger.com – How Can We Make Chicago More Bike Friendly?

NACTO’s “Cities for Cycling” Roadshow Rocks Chicago from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Treehugger.com – Hawaii Using Smart Grid Controls to Turn Lights Off When the Wind Stops Blowing

Grist – Wind turbine workers get their own reality show

Grist – Big Oil’s banner year: Higher prices, record profits, less oil

Spore Matters

Upcycling’s Upshot: How Urban Mushroom Farmers Turned Scavenging into a Business

Back to the Roots Website

Home Mushroom Growing, from start to finish

Getting Started with Mushroom Cultivation

More Advanced Mushroom Growing Kits

Mushroom varieties

Music

Q and Not U – Wet Work
Talib Kweli – Waitin’ For the DJ

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Episode 26: Protein, Protein (plus its time to look for a CSA)

Buying a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)

peaches-csa

An Introduction to CSAs

Local Harvest – Find a CSA or farmers market near you!

corn-csa

USDA – CSA Information

csa-carved-farmer

News

Inhabitat – MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings

Treehugger.com – Solar is Contagious. How Does It Turn Into a Social Virus? Continue reading “Episode 26: Protein, Protein (plus its time to look for a CSA)” »

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