Climate Friendly Cows Make Meat Eating a Little Less Bad

Photo via Bjorlanda Farm. Leave it to the Swedes to try to have their cows and eat them, too. In the southern half of the country, farmers are breeding Highland cattle, originally from Scotland but bred in Sweden for decades if not centuries. The breed is long-haired (to better survive winter), long-horned, and long-living. Highland cattle are pastured year-round in the milder southern Swedish climate, eating grass and the wild herbs growing in the different rotating fields they eat in. This grass-fed meat, a bit leaner and perhap...

Cool It Schools Invites Positive Action From Young People Worldwide

Influential, powerful adults around the world are struggling to deal with the concept of climate change and what we should do about it, from big business to big governments there's a lot of umming and ahhhing going on. Frankly, it's time to bring in the kids! As I experienced in my recent public installation project, The Butterfly Effect, it really is the kids who are most clued up about what's going on, plus they're the most adaptable humans on the planet - change doesn't scare 'em! The new global initiative Cool It Schools knows this too and...

Could the Mississippi Delta Become the Heart of America's Bamboo Belt?

photo: Travis Hornung via flickr I'll let you in on a small not-so secret: I've loved bamboo since I was a little kid. Fascinated with it ever since National Geographic ran a long story on complete with illustrations of all the different types, and have always had a strong visceral response to it. And what's not to like about it? It's amazingly strong, has myriad uses and is downright beautiful. So when I ran across an article in

Gnomedex: Code for Green and Win Green

Image Credit: wetwebwork Are you a programmer? Working on a green project? Want to win $10k? How about $100 off a Gnomedex ticket? Betsy Aoki, Program Manager, Live Search:

The Live Search team, in partnership with the awesome Gnomedex conference, is sponsoring a developer contest called Code for Green that we hope will make a difference to the economy (Green = Money) and the Earth’s...

Wine In A Box: The Greenest Way To Drink?

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Dear Pablo: I visited a winery called La Delizia located in Casarsa de la Delizia, north of Venice in Italy. They have started selling 3 litre boxed wines at US retail outlets. I'd like to know how the carbon footprint of La Delizia's 3 liter boxes compare to boxed wine from California, for instance, Turning Leaf Vineyards' 3 liter merlot, produced in Modesto, CA, or any other 3 liter California boxed wine. It would also be great to know how 3 liter boxed wines from other leading wine regions such as Austraila, South Africa and Chile would compare to those two....

JUNKride Bikes 2,600 Miles to Point Out Plastic in Pacific

We talk a lot about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where an incredible amount of plastic is floating around wreaking havoc on ecosystems and working its way back up the food chain into our bodies. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins are nearing the end of their 2,600 mile bike ride and lecture tour to raise awareness abou...

Microsoft's Hohm Latches Onto Consumer Energy Efficiency Wave

Screenshot via ReadWriteWeb Around every corner is a list on how to cut down on your home energy use. The problem with most of these tip sheets is that the suggestions don't fit your circumstances. Usually we skim through and pick out the small handful that apply to us and that we can follow, and discard the rest of the list as useless. It's a fairly dissatisfying process, and Microsoft has recognized that. The company has come out with Hohm, a tipster software that bases its advice on customized information, and eventually on data provided by your ut...

To Donate, or Recreate: Where Should Your Old Jeans Go?

Photo Courtesy of Neatorama Next time you're home, look around your closet. Your attic. How many pairs of jeans do you have there, unworn for months, years, decades even? I have four. Aside from the ones you keep for "some day" when you're skinny again or returning to fat, which ones of those could go? And where should they go? I'm betting your first thought was Salvation Army or some local version of such a thing. A commendable thought, but there's a...

Kate's Cafe Serves Crocheted Food

Knitting and crocheting have become all the rage, with happy knitters meeting in pubs or creating monster coral reefs. Crocheting, like knitting, is an old skill which used to be the domain of ladies making doilies. Now with the revival of interest in traditional and artisanal handicrafts, artists are taking this old skill in new directions. Kate Jenkins learned to crochet at her mother's knee and she is crocheting culinary masterpieces. In her fantasy cafe she is serving full english breakfast, complete with tomatoes, sausage...

Conserve Plastic Bags Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week is Carnival of the Green #186 and it's being hosted by Conserve Plastic Bags, an informative blog whose goal is to raise public awareness on the consumption of plastic bags. Since it's inception (which began as a class project), it has since evolved to include content about a multitude of other current environmental issues as well. So head on over to this week's Carnival, which includes a round up of green news and events from the past week, submitted by other bloggers and ...

Water Wars or Something Better: Can Water Bring Peace?

Image credit: Marjukka Grover Because Water is so Vital, Even Enemies Can Find Common Ground There's no doubt that as our climate gets weirder, the world will increasingly face a severe water crisis. Given the fact that we absolutely cannot live without water, it's perhaps understandable that we all get a little panicky - see, for example, the discussion over in our forums about whether global warming could lead to war, or check out Jaymi's post on