Filed under: Earth Friendly Campaigns and Products, world concerns | Tags: golf courses and equipment
I’ve written about eco-golf before but have found some more info to share. With an estimated 28 million American golfers out there those greens they play can exact a significant environmental price. Irrigation systems use massive amounts of water and grooming those beautiful greens involve chemical treatments. Audubon International Golf and the Environment Initiative certifies courses that are more eco-friendly. There are courses out there that protect the environment, conserve natural resources and provide wildlife habitats.
Filed under: Earth Friendly Campaigns and Products, food, health and beauty, organic gifts, weddings and celebrations, world concerns | Tags: eco-friendly weddings
Many couples are now planning to tie the knot with Earth-friendly celebrations and the wedding industry is adapting to their wishes. There are all kind of ways to have a green wedding without sacrificing the fun, elegance or style you want.
Filed under: Earth Friendly Campaigns and Products, business, world concerns | Tags: business, eco-acronyms, environment
So what does ARSO mean? Here’s another eco-acronym that compliments “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. ARSO is used by some in the environmental industry to help companies reduce and manage their carbon footprint. It stands for Avoid, Reduce, Substitute and Offset.
For example a business can:
AVOID buying a large SUV for deliveries or avoid using non-recycle copy paper.
REDUCE their purchases of overly packaged items.
SUBSTITUTE biking for driving to work or using more enviro-friendly office supplies or machines.
OFFSET their environmental impact by purchasing carbon credits.
Filed under: food, world concerns | Tags: grain, high food prices, world hunger
Well, its too late this summer to tear up my lawn and put in a field of wheat and corn but every time I go to the grocery store I wish it wasn’t. The price of every major grain is rising to record levels. Two main things are causing this-extreme weather and vegetable based alternative fuels.
Cheap corn and wheat price spikes are not expected to end anytime soon. Also soybeans (another biofuel crop), barley, oats, rice, sunflowers and lentils are getting way more expensive rapidly.
Try making a meal without any of these products and although American shoppers are feeling the pinch the greater concern is mass starvation as the world’s poor find it harder to afford or even find food.
Rioting over a life-sustaining bowl of grain is becoming a way of life in some of the poorest parts of the world. Haiti, Egypt, Kenya, India, Brazil, Argentina and Indonesia are all showing the alarming stress of tight food supplies. India, Vietnam and Thailand have restricted their rice exports to ensure that they can feed their people first.
100 million poor people around the world are feeling this food crisis and even Americans are beginning to experience food rationing because major retailers on the East and West coasts are limiting the purchases of flour, rice and cooking oil as supplies dwindle because people are stockpiling.
Next summer I’m afraid I might be looking at my green lawn a little differently.
Filed under: Earth Friendly Campaigns and Products, business, technology, world concerns | Tags: cell phone, recycle
Did you know that 600 million old cell phones are hiding in American homes? If you have one or two, you can recycle it and do something good for someone at the same time. Just log on to and follow the simple prompts. They’ll send you a postage-paid envelope. some phones will be sold and the funds will be given to various programs and other phones will be given to older adults so they can make 911 calls if necessary.
