5 Things That Actually Determine the Price of Gasoline

How Oil Speculation and Energy Policy Impact the Price of Gas

http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/true-cost-gasoline-closer-15-gallon-video.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29

Obama administration okays key section of pipeline, making ultimate Keystone decision obvious

Debunking the Pile of Lies in the ‘Obama Volt’ Video

The GOP’s Oily Transportation Plan Crumbles in the House

Obama Mocks GOP’s ‘Drill Now’ Agenda: “That’s Not a Plan…That’s a Bumper Sticker.”

Getting ready for the end of growth on Earth

Music

Alexisonfire – Young Cardinals

Full Episode Audio

Fashioning change

Ecouterre

The Discerning Brute

Brave Gentleman

Pure Citizen

Mega News Episode!

Newt Gingrich Says You Can’t Put A Gun Rack on a Chevy Volt

Texas lost half a billion trees in current drought

Brewers Embrace Urban Hops from Backyard Farmers

…Because We Live in a Time When People Must be Convinced to be “Pro-Mountain”

Fracking Study: It’s Not The Process Contaminating Groundwater, It’s the Sloppy Way They Do It

EcoSpeed App Directs Your Driving, Cuts Fuel Use by 30%

Turning Ireland’s water and wind into energy exports

Shopping Versus Political Activism Debate Continues: “Separate But Equal”?

Why Electric Cars Are Not the Answer (But They Sure Can Help)

7 Kid-Friendly Salad Recipes to Get Your Children Excited About Eating Their Veggies

Stopping Liquid Natural Gas Port in Maryland a Blow Against Fracking in the Marcellus Shale, Too

6 Easy-to-Carry Essentials That Will Keep Your Travels Green

Music

Bright Eyes – Method Acting
Bloc Party – Price of Gasoline

Full Episode Audio

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

Treehugger.com – New Study Strengthens Link Between Obesity, Diabetes and BPA

Grist – Algae whiz: Growing protein with fewer resources

Grist – CAFO conviction: Court holds factory farm accountable for water pollution

Grist – http://grist.org/food/big-dairys-latest-smear-tactic/

Rethinking Energy: The Smart Grid

Smart Grid Concept First Step Towards Energy Independence?

7 smart grid projects that are turning heads

Smart grid trends: combined heat and power gets a boost

Music

Alexisonfire – We Are the Sound
Le Tigre – Lets Run
Audioslave – Cochise

Full Episode Audio

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

Full Episode Audio

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

Just Science iPhone App Simplifies Climate Change Information

Coffee and Tea

Coffee:

Coffee Habitat – Top 5 Indicators of Sustainable Coffee

Rainforest Alliance – Coffee

Tea:

Rainforest Alliance – Sustainable Tea

Art of Tea – Sustainable Tea

(Kenya) Sustainable Tea Production from Rainforest Alliance on Vimeo.

Sodastream Review

Treehugger.com – Are Soda Makers Really Greener?

So I happened to get a Sodastream over the winter, and have been using it pretty much daily since, and can honestly say it is a great piece of technology and one I would be sad to be without. This is the perfect way to replace cans or bottles of soda, assuming you don’t mind a bit of different flavor.

The first thing you learn though, is don’t use the crappy samples that come with the machine. Personally I enjoy drinking soda water straight from the bottle, so I do that frequently, but you can also make your own syrups and sparkling beverages.

Music

The Pixies – Alec Eiffel
Sleater-Kinney – Was it a Lie?
Portishead – Wandering Star

Full Episode Audio

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

Full Episode Audio

An Introduction to CSAs

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

USDA – CSA Information

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?

Stanford Developing Wireless Electric Car Charging System For Highways

Baltimore Sun – Salazar to announce offshore wind move

Treehugger.com – Wind Power Now Supplies 5% of California’s Electricity

Treehugger.com – Gasland Director Josh Fox Arrested While Trying to Film Congressional Fracking Hearing

Grist – Chamber of Commerce pushes civilization-ending pollution agenda

Ars Technica – Test of 400 options shows we can save money while limiting climate change

Protein, Protein

Grist – Protein Propaganda

Grist – When did vegetarianism become passé?

Grist – The Soy Next Door

Treehugger.com – The fine line between aquaponics and factory farms

Grist – Deep Impact: The toll your protein takes on the earth

Ars Technica – Fish: This is your brain on carbon emissions

Music

Portlandia – The Dream of the 1890′s
Say Anything – We Killed It

Full Episode Audio

Wikipedia for 3D Printing

Makerbot Industries

Explaining the Future – 3D Printing

News

Treehugger.com – 12 Simple(ish) Ways To Quickly Reduce Global Warming Two-Thirds by 2050

Treehugger.com – By 2050 We’re All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not

Treehugger.com – Clean Energy Records Shattered in 2011: $53 Billion in New Deals, $260 Billion in Investment

Treehugger.com – Fungus That Eats Polyurethane Found In Ecuadorian Rainforest

Grist – Maine to create car-free town with ‘really narrow streets’

New Emails Show BP Was Aware of Possibility of Oil Spill in Gulf But Kept it Secret

Monsanto’s new seeds could be a tech dead end

Bill Gates wants to solve hunger caused by climate change with GMOs

Missing ocean heat may never have been missing at all

Garden Planning

National Gardening Association Regional Reports Zone Map

Gardenate Calendar

Wikipedia List of Companion Plants

Amazon Listing for Carrots Love Tomatoes

Wikihow: Grow a Tomato Plant

Garden Supply Company Kitchen Garden Planner

Better Homes and Gardens Garden Planning Tool

Music

A Static Lullaby – We Go To Eleven
Dessa – Veteran

Full Episode Audio

Grist.org – Not all Republicans are climate deniers

Treehugger – Six Questions About Fracking Only An ‘Ecofascist Industry Tool’ Would Ask

Inhabitat – US Department of Energy Decreases Estimate of East Coast Natural Gas Reserves by 66%

Inhabitat – President Obama’s Latest Speech Touts American-Made Energy but Gets Stuck on Oil and Gas

Treehugger – How Oil Money is Corrupting Our Children’s Education

Treehugger – Memo to Democrats: Get Behind Clean Energy. ASAP.

Bloomgerg – Renewables From Vestas to Suntech Plan Profit Without Subsidy

Ars Technica – We’ve hit “peak oil”; now comes permanent price volatility

Treehugger – 3D Printers In A Prius Prove This Technology is Road Ready

Fracking Links

Gasland – A Documentary about the gas industry and the origin of the famous lighting tap water on fire clip

Affirming Gasland: A de-debunking document in response to specious and misleading gas industry claims against the film

Study Shows Fracking Gas is worse for climate than Coal

Infographic on Pros and Cons of Hydrolic Fracturing

The Guardian – Shale Gas Fracking – The Facts and Figures

Revenge of the Electric Car

Music

Le Tigre – Deceptacon
Moby – Porcelain
Motion City Soundtrack – Make Out Kids

Full Episode Audio

Nissan Proves the Leaf Can Handle the Cold

Giant companies get real about climate adaptation

Despite Denial, Even Oil Companies Are Planning for Inevitable Climate Change

Study Reveals That Climate Change is Now a Factor for Investment Bankers

GOP and Canadian Oil Execs Plot to Revive Keystone XL Pipeline

Rollerhaus Re-imagines Chicago as a Futuristic Eco Metropolis

New Agtivists: Brother-sister duo revamp the corner store

Proof That The Greenest Building IS The One Already Standing Released in New Report From Preservation Green Lab

Obama: Open 75% More US Land for Gas & Oil Drilling, “Double Down” on Clean Energy

FarmPlate Creates Nation’s Largest Sustainable, Ethical Foods Directory Online

A Comprehensive Review Of What’s Causing Global Warming

Beer Brewing

Popular Mechanics – The Starter’s Guide to Brewing Beer
A good rundown of your first brew

How To Brew by John Palmer
This site is extremely helpful, it walks you through the entire process, is easy to follow, and I can’t recommend it enough.

Brew Your Own Magazine
A great resource for home brewers with tips and tricks, plus their website has a ton of information.

Instructibles: Homebrew
This Instructibles category includes hundreds of recipes. I recommend reading thoroughly, cross-checking with John Palmer’s site and BYO, and reading comments before committing to a recipe, anyone can post an Instructible so you might not be getting good advice. It is however an endless source of inspiration.

Music

A Static Lullaby – Accidents
The Get Up Kids – Walking on a Wire
Motion City Soundtrack – A-OK

Full Episode Audio

News

Treehugger.com: Chinese Climate Change Report Says Environmental Future “Grim”

Inhabitat: Nobel Laureate Develops World’s Cheapest and Most Effective CO2 Sponge

Inhabitat: Detroit’s Urban Agriculture Movement Could Help ‘Green’ the City

Treehugger.com: A New Four-Lane Superhighway To Be Built Only For Bikes

Grist.org: Urban farming essentials: Authors of a new, definitive guide tell all

Grist.org: Cycles and cents: One city sets out to prove that bikes are good for business

Winter Cycling

Here are some good resources for biking in the winter:

Bicycling Hub Winter Sale

All Weather Suports – Winter Riding Tips

Treehugger.com: 42 Tips to Help You Ride Your Bike All Winter

Music:
Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
Queen – Bicycle Race

Full Episode Audio

Obama Kills Keystone XL!

The Hill: Obama administration to reject controversial Keystone pipeline

The Washington Post: Five myths about the Keystone XL pipeline

Eating Green, Losing Weight

Inhabitat: How To Get Healthy and Lose Weight by Going Green!

Treehugger:5 Phone Apps for Healthy Green Eating

Music

Full Episode

Treehugger: UK Minister Sparks Outrage with “Environmental Taliban” Comments

Inhabitat: 7 Hottest New Hybrids & Electric Cars at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit
Washington Post: Smart shows off tiny concept take on classic American pickup
Treehugger: Toyota Unveils NS4 Plug-in Hybrid Concept, Possible Global Production in 2015
Toyota Yaris Hybrid Preview
Treehugger: 2013 Honda Accord to be Available in Plug-in Hybrid Model
Treehugger: The Prius C is Coming to U.S. this Spring, Priced Below $19,000

Engadget: Top 7 Green Gadgets To Debut at This Week’s 2012 CES
Treehugger: CES 2012: The Connected Home Leads As Popular Theme in Consumer Electronics

Music:
Send in the Clouds – Silver Jews
Subbacultcha – The Pixies
The National – Start a War

Audio File

How the meat industry turned abuse into a business model

Is drug resistance in humans coming from chickens?

Multi-drug resistant staph in 1 of 4 supermarket meat samples

FDA sued over growth-promoting antibiotic use on the farm

Globalized Beef, Palm Oil & Timber Corporations Now Main Cause of Tropical Deforestation

Lab-Grown Meat Could Slash Emissions By 96%

10 Must-Read Veg Books

Music:
k-Os – Comandante

Full Episode Audio

9 Plant-Preserving Self-Watering Container Gardens You Can DIY or Buy (Slideshow)

Find out more about this organization here

Rooftop Urban Farm Brings Fresh Local Produce To Montreal All Year Round

Edward Glaeser Phones In The Old Arguments Against Local Agriculture

Music:

Across the Universe Soundtrack – Revolution

Full Episode Audio

GOP rep hopes to shatter his own lightbulb legislation

Plastic purge: The enemy is everywhere

Plastic purge: Trouble on every aisle

Plastic purge: Homemade tortillas and hummus

Plastic purge: The poo problem

Movie Review: Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

Music: The Faint: Agenda Suicide

Full episode audio

Music:
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2

Full Episode Audio

Bicycling’s gender gap: It’s the economy, stupid

Elly Blue @ PBOT Brown Bag! from Cantankerous Titles on Vimeo.

10 Tips for Buying a Bike You Love

My NYC Biking Story: Howard Wolfson from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Read the rest after the break

Streets With Bike Lanes are a Kind of Economic Stimulus

Learn Basic Bike Repair with These 9 DIY Videos (Slideshow)

iPhone App Review(s):

I briefly went over all these apps, maybe review is a bit strong, but they each have strengths. I especially would recommend anyone with a bike download Bike Doctor.

miCoach for iPhone
miCoach for iPhone

runtastic PRO for iPhone
runtastic PRO for Android

Bike Doctor for iPhone
Bike Doctor for Android

iMapMyRIDE for iPhone

The Bike Computer

Music:
Queen – Bicycle Race

Full Episode Audio

Google says delaying clean energy will cost the U.S. trillions

Value of solar power far exceeds its cost

Michele Bachmann: Abolish the EPA (Video)

Clean Air Act Will Save $2 Trillion & 230,000 Lives by 2020

Enforcing Clean Air Act Rules Will Create 1.5 Million Jobs, Study Says

Music: Whole Foods Parking Lot

Full Episode audio

Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush

U.S. Eyeing 56.2 MPG Cars By 2025

Obama administration to release oil from strategic petroleum reserve

Infographic – Powering the world economy

Why the world faces a massive traffic jam

Bus Rapid Transit in Guangzhou, China from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Music:
The Roots – The Seed (2.0)

Full Episode Audio

Tomorrow I’ll be picking up food for my CSA, I’m going to shoot some photos at the farmers market, its always so pretty there.

Ask Pablo: What’s The Impact Of Imported Tropical Fruit?

How to Make the Most of Your Garden Space

5 Super Simple Ways to Get Your Urban Garden Going

Can Small Farms Feed the World & Protect Nature?

Hey, Vilsack: Big Ag won’t feed the world or make jobs

Read the rest after the jump…

App Review: Locavore

A great application for finding local food, I definitely recommend it!

Follow them on twitter

Locavore in the App Store
Locavore on Android Market

Music
Flogging Molly – Tobbacco Island
Bright Eyes – Gold Mine Gutted

Full Episode Audio

How to get to a fully renewable power system

Organic Can Feed Us All – New Data Confirms It’s Just As Productive, More Drought Resistant, Better For Soil

MBA: Parking Reform from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Music Used in this episode:
At the Drive In – Star Slight
Ani DiFranco – Lag Time

Show Link

Biodiesel Resources:

Biodiesel.org

News:

Myths About Green Building Busted, Just In Time, Too.
Is Obama’s EPA trying to implement ‘backdoor cap-and-trade? Um, no.
Solar thermal industry set to boom
South-Korea’s Capital Starts Commercial Operation of Electric Buses
U.S. military sees great value in distributed renewable energy
Clean Air standards coming for America’s biggest carbon polluters
New hardware uses concentrated solar to produce hydrogen
California approves more Big Solar projects
Refresher: How CO2 Causes Global Warming (Video)
New Recycling Process Could Recycle 100% of Plastic Packaging
‘Shroom’ at Home With the Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden
California Passes Cap & Trade Bill – Creates World’s Second Largest Emission Trading Scheme
The Economist Looks At Vertical Farming and Asks: Does It Stack Up?
Watch the trailer for ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ [VIDEO]

Sustainability 101:

Baltimore Biodiesel

Review:

Fuel

Trailer:

IMDB
Official Site

Intro:

Eco Capitalism

News:

Treehugger: Carbon Trading is Far From Perfect, But What’s the Alternative?
Inhabitat: Central Valley Scores First Piece of California’s High Speed Rail
Grist: Court gives green light to EPA carbon pollution standards
Grist: The FDA finally reveals how many antibiotics factory farms use—and it’s a shitload
Regional cap-and-trade advances
Grist: Sorry, Glenn, Sarah, and Rush: Food is not a partisan issue—or one just about culture
Treehugger: Climate Scientist Takes on Big Oil Stooge in Congress (Video)

More after the break…

Treehugger: Is “Peak Fertilizer” Nearer Than We Think? New Report Fuels Concern
Treehugger: Michigan Governor Proposes Clean Energy & Jobs ‘Moon Shot’
Treehugger: Congress’s New Science Chairman to Fight “Global Freezing”
Treehugger: Special Light-Absorbing Layer Makes Polymer Solar Cells 20% More Efficient
Inhabitat: Giant Wind Farm Will Link New England and New York Power Grids
Treehugger: We Could Have 10 MW Wind Turbines by 2011 and 15 MW Turbines by 2020
Treehugger: Canadian Government Partnered With Polluting Industry to Fight US Climate Action
Treehugger: Factory Farms Decreasing in Number, But Increasing in Size: 20 Percent Growth in 5 Years
Treehugger: Sweatshop-Free? New Report Grades Levi’s, Gap, and Wal-Mart’s Supply Chain
Grist: Ten affordable neighborhoods-in-progress will design to LEED-ND standards under grant program
Treehugger: International Tuna Meeting Fails to Reduce Bluefin Quotas – Short-Term Profits Trump Sustainability

Sustainability 101:

I interviewed Scott Nash, CEO of Mom’s Organic Market.

Product Review:

What would Jesus Buy?
Netflix
Amazon

Ian’s Kitchen Corner:

Winter Chili with Cornbread

Chili:

1 Can of Pinto Beans
1 Can of Kidney Beans
1 Can of Black Beans
3 Cans of Tomatoes (I use smoked tomatoes with adobo)
Olive oil
2 onions
5 cloves garlic
1 zucchini
1 yellow squash
2/3 can of corn
*optional: Gimme Lean Sausage
1 large potato
1/2 cup brown rice
1 cup water
Cumin
Salt
Pepper
Cayenne Pepper
Chipotle Powder

Recipe works best in a slow cooker, but can be prepared on a stove, just be mindful of it.

In a pot, combine beans and tomatoes and put on medium heat. Prepare rice in a steamer or on stove top

Slice onion and dice garlic. Add a tbsp of oil to a cast iron pan, add onion and cook until soft. Add garlic and cook a few additional minutes. If you are using a fake meat, add it now. Slice zucchini and squash and potato, add to pan. Cook until zucchini and squash are tender. Add to the large pot, also add 2/3 corn and the rice once it is finished cooking. season with salt pepper cumin, cayenne and chipotle peppers to taste.

Corn Bread:

2 cups cornmeal
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup canola oil
2 tablespoons agave nectar
2 cups coconut milk
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 can of corn

Preheat your oven to 350. Grease a pan with oil or shortening. Mix dry ingredients. Mix vinegar and coconut milk (this is to create an acidic fatty liquid, similar to buttermilk), then whisk in agave and oil until the mixture is frothy. Add liquid to the dry ingredients, and mix until smooth. Pour into pan and bake in oven 35 minutes. It is ready when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

App Review:

Evernote Site
iTunes Store
Evernote for Android

Music:

Rage Against the Machine – Sleep Now In The Fire
The Decemberists – O Valencia!

News:

Inhabitat: Seed Bomb + Slingshot Kit is an Explosive Holiday Gift
Treehugger: Global Solar Energy Could Hit 980 GW in Under 10 Years
Grist: Ethanol is dead; all hail plant-based synthetic gasoline!
Inhabitat: Ecomo Homes: Modular, Compact, Solar Powered Prefabs
Treehugger: Simple Ideas for Making Transportation More Efficient
Treehugger: U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama
Engadget: Chinese passenger train reaches 302mph, claims speed record for unmodified trains
Bmore Green: Plastic or paper? Soft start for B’more’s new bag law
Engadget: Hornblower Hybrid ferry relies on eco-friendly trifecta: hydrogen, solar and wind power
Gizmodo: Watch a Chevy Volt Get Assembled in 2 Minutes

…hit the break for the rest of the episode

Engadget: NRG and SunPower partner on 250-megawatt solar plant, plan to power 100,000 California homes
Gizmodo: Great Gifts for the Pedal Pusher
Grist: Sunsetting of federal cash grant darkens solar industry’s prospects
Grist: Taxing carbon as part of responsible, progressive fiscal policy
Treehugger: Consumers, Meet Producers: Abe’s Market Lets Buyers Get to Know, Appreciate, Interact with Manufacturers
Treehugger: Farmigo Streamlines CSA Systems So Farmers Can Profit
Treehugger: World’s First Biofueled Passenger Flight to Launch Next Year
Treehugger: A Composting Toilet for $195 – the Loveable Loo
Treehugger: China Overtakes US as Most Attractive Country for Renewable Energy For First Time

Product Review:

This week I ran down some of my favorite podcasts.

Fully Charged with Robert Llewellyn:
Website
Youtube Feed
iTunes Feed

Citizen Radio:
Website
RSS Feed
iTunes Feed

More Hip than Hippie:
Website
RSS Feed
iTunes Feed

Vegcast:
Website
RSS Feed
iTunes Feed

Ian’s Kitchen Corner:

App Review:

Climate Counts:

Music Credits:

Motion City Soundtrack – The Future Freaks Me Out

Alexisonfire – Accidents

Eco News:

Treehugger: A Healthy Thanksgiving Begins in a Green Kitchen

Grist: Is Texas the next solar state?

Grist: The Wall Street Journal editorial board does not like clean air

Treehugger: Sahara Solar Breeder Project Would Power World With Sand

Treehugger: MindBodyGreen Deals, the Groupon for Greenies

Inhabitat: RavenBrick’s Nanotech ‘Smart’ Wall Absorbs Heat For Later Release

Inhabitat: Electric Pinwheels Wind Turbine Can Be Installed In 8 Seconds

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Inhabitat: West Hollywood’s Stylish Green Low-Income Housing

Inhabitat: Turning Downtrodden Detroit Into a Farm Town Could Revitalize It

Treehugger: Awesome Green DIY Projects from MAKE

Inhabitat: Philadelphia Eagles Stadium to Receive $30M Eco Upgrade

Sustainability 101:

I went over a number of green recipes in the show, they were all off the top of my head. Here are some pictures from the thanksgiving meal I made:

Green Product Review:

Maggie’s Organic Socks:

Cotton Tri-Pack

Value 6 Pack!

American Apparel Underwear:

Men’s Briefs

Women’s Panties

App Review:

Epicurious on the web

Epicurious for iPhone/iPad

Epicurious for Android

Music Credits:

The Faint: Agenda Suicide

The Decemberists: The Infanta

The article that coined the term tragedy of the commons

Wheat steak recipe: the best vegan protein I’ve eaten in a long time!

Eco News:

ARSTechnica: Should we be planning for the end of cheap coal?

Treehugger: Where That Green $32 Billion Went: Recovery Act Update

Treehugger: New Plan of Attack on climate: Shame big polluters

Treehugger: Cogenra’s ‘Hybrid’ Solar System Captures 80% of the Sun’s Energy to Generates Electricity and Hot Water

Treehugger: Why Sustainable agriculture is important to Walmart

…hit the break for the rest of the episode

Daily Kos: Outgoing Ranking Republican Blasts his Party’s rejection of Climate Science

B’More Green: Greens want tighter pollution limits for poultry farmers

Grist: 6 Ways to solve the renter’s dilemma for home energy

Sustainability 101:

EnergyStar products, for home energy use reduction

Ideas to reduce refrigerator energy use

Compact Florescent Bulbs

LED Bulbs, more expensive, but the best you can get

My favorite LED Bulb

Guide to line drying

Using a power strip to cut energy use

Product Review

Klean Kanteen Insulated (The best water bottle I’ve ever used)

Smartphone App Review

Kindle for iPhone/iPad

iBooks for iPhone

Barnes and Noble Nook for iPhone

Amazon Kindle device

Barnes and Noble Nook

Music Credits:

Bad Religion: Faith Alone

Mos Def: Mathematics

Find a Farmers Market

News Articles:

Planet Green: Top 5 Eco Video Games
Representative Shimkus talking about Climate Change
Grist – West Oakland’s City Slicker Farms
ARS Technica = Review: Liverider turns your iPhone into a Cycling Computer
Treehugger – Is asking when solar power will reach grid parity addressing the right question?

…hit the break for the rest of the episode

New Governors Kill 1.2 Billion dollars in High Speed Rail
ARS Technica – IEA: Last year’s inaction on climate goals cost us 1 trillion dollars
We Can’t Say its Cheese

Soil Testing Information:
http://www.ncagr.gov/cyber/kidswrld/plant/soiltest.htm
http://www.umass.edu/soiltest/

Hang Drying Clothes

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00176080

Waterprint App

http://www.waterprint.net/
App on the iTunes store

Music Credits:

Bright Eyes – Bowl of Oranges

Death Cap for Cutie – Styrofoam Plates

We got into some politics talk to start with. Tuesday was vexing, hopefully we can get a compromise energy independence bill through congress, we cannot let the last decade of renewable energy growth go to waste! Time to put a pin in global warming and built the economy of the future!

Note: CO2 emissions from natural gas are a reduction of 50% not 80%

News:

Today’s news is a bit gadget heavy, I wanted to focus on some fun stuff not negative stories.

Treehugger: 50% of the New Congressmen Deny Climate Change
Treehugger: How Climate Denial Becomes Fact in Right-Wing Media (Video)
Students Develop Fully Recyclable Laptop That Can Be Disassembled With No Tools

…hit the break for the rest of the episode

AUO solar-powered touch keyboard connects your laptop with the sun
Programmer Develops Twitter Bot to Troll Climate Change Deniers
Why public transportation is good for kids
Japanese Vending Machines Grow Food Without Sunlight

Window Sill Gardening:

Correction: I misspoke and said aquaponics and hydropnics were synonyms, aquaponics is aquaculture, meaning fish fertilize the plants!

Here are a couple tutorials to check out, and a few products:

Tutorial on sill gardening
Target has an all in one kit, seeds most likely pre-treated, but a good example of the kind of simple starter gear involved

Advanced:
Window Sill Hydroponics
Another Hydroponics Guide

I may attempt these hydroponic systems, they seem pretty simple and very nifty!

App Review:

Greenpeace Tissue Guide Site
Tissue Guide in the App Store
Tissue Guide Indoor App
Android: Search “Tissue Guide” in the Android Market

Product of the week (no review):

Swheat Scoop Kitty Litter!

Hi Everybody! This episode opens with a discussion of the benefits of taking preventative measures against global warming, even if one assumes global warming isn’t real.

News Articles:

Grist – China takes the wind out of the U.S.
Treehugger – New York’s Fresh Bodegas Program Brings Farmers’ Market Produce to Inner City Food Desert
Hulu – Schwarzenegger Presses Feds on Energy

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Goats Are The New Emissions-Free Mowers
Grist – Investing in metro areas is the key to sustainable growth
Grist – U.S. solar boom requires policy and money (not sunshine), says report
Engadget – ‘Steeper’ project aims to boost electronics’ power efficiency by 10x, eliminate vampire power

Sustainability 101

Automated composting systems:
Nature Mill Composting

Free Ebook – The Humanure Handbook

Product Review

I took a ton of pictures at the opening: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianlogsdon/sets/72157625283452312/

The Fitzgerald website

App Review

Skeptical Science Website

Skeptical Science App on iTunes

Skeptical Science App on Android

Skeptical Science on Nokia Phones

Closing

Rally to Restore Sanity Photos/Videos

Welcome to episode 2! I got back from Greenfest in DC and got started recording. I met a lot of interesting folks, and I’m excited to start exploring their websites and products. I hope to interview some of them for the show, and I’ll be putting up a green products section of the website for more information. The site is currently in transition and I will continue to develop it as I see fit.

October is National Recycling Awareness Month! And International Free Trade Month!

Intro:

-Penn and Teller “Fast Food”

- Exploding Kid climate video

- Meatless Mondays

News:

Treehugger: 10 Futuristic Electric Cars from the Paris Motor Show

Treehugger: Amazon.com Patents Customized Shipping Options for Greener Orders

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Treehugger: Bioneers 2010: Gary Hirshberg Explains How To Scale Up Sustainable Foods

Greenbiz: Odwalla Juices Switching to Sugarcane-Based PlantBottle

Engadget: Brammo introduces the Enertia Plus electric motorcycle with double the range

The Atlantic: Shooting for the Sun

No Trick Treats Maps Healthy Halloween Candy

Recycling:

http://1800recycling.com/
A great site with a ton of resources for finding recycling locations and ensuring you’re recycling correctly.

http://earth911.com/
Another resource for recycling, including tutorials on every aspect of recycling, as well as other green projects.

Review: Soapnuts

Soapnuts are awesome, I was really impressed with using them for

Soapnuts on Wikipedia

Give A Green Bag: Met their founder at Greenfest and she was selling soapnuts! Figured this would be a good place for a plug.

iPhone App:
Treehugger iPhone App

Closing:

Have a great week everyone! I have uploaded pictures from Greenfest, you can check them out here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianlogsdon/

I submitted the show to iTunes and Podcast alley today, as well, I have been doing some promotion @thegaiacast on twitter.

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-a38c8822e7145fb9a1a67c2e6c20c1fb}

Summary:

For this episode I discuss the fundamentals of the environmental crisis and exploring your own impact. I go through a few news stories, I review the LED light bulbs I picked up and talk about the iPhone app GoodGuide.

Show Notes:

News:

Interview with Herman Scheer

Walmart doubles down on on local food

Eat less meat, save the planet? Livestock nears sustainability limit

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Chevy Volt Gets 127 MPG Over 299 Miles of Real-World Driving

US Solar Power Installations Set To More Than Double in 2010

What is the crisis?:

ClimateCrisis.net

MyFootPrint.org

Light Bulb Review:

Phillips LED Bulb:
Strangely, I couldn’t find the bulb I bought on Home Depot’s site or on Philips site, but its a 5 Watt 240 Lumens bulb from the AmbietLED line.

EcoSmart LED Light Bulb

GoodGuide Review:

GoodGuide Site

Download on the app store

Music Credits:

Ian Logsdon – Getting Right With Gaia Intro

The Postal Service – Such Great Heights

Come Together – Joe Crocker

Bright Eyes – Road to Joy

System of a Down – Science