- the Sexy Green Car Show

Yes, there is such a thing — running right now at the Eden Project in the UK.
It showcases “the pioneers who are making breakthroughs in aerodynamics, new fuels, engines and ultra-light materials.”
Of course you don’t have to rely on technology to make your drive greener, the Independent reminds us. As [...]

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- let your cows free!

Another reason to drink organic milk: A British report finds that “milk from cows which graze outside on grass and clover contains more antioxidants and vitamins than that from conventional dairy farms,” the UK Independent tell us today.

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- gardening, as well as eating, like we’re at war

The ‘Victory Garden’ idea is getting a lot of play these days.  We’ve already noticed appeals for us to ‘eat-like-there’s-a-war-on.’
Now the UK Independent is excited by the same idea — hooking its version of the story on a new exhibit, ‘Dig for Victory: War on Waste,‘ at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.

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- as oil dries up, should we expect no landscape to be sacred?

Here’s just a tiny example of what’s likely to be a growing phenomenon — increased pressure to extract oil from much-loved, environmentally sensitive areas all over the world.
It’s not just vast wildernesses like ANWR that will be threatened as oil prices soar.
As this plan to drill in the UK shows, we can expect that pressure [...]

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- the worst species loss since the time of the dinosaurs

. . . and we’re clearly to blame.
So says a new report by the WWF, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint Network. The finds, the Independent reports today, that land species have declined by 25 per cent, marine life by 28 per cent, and freshwater species by 29 per cent.
“You’d [...]

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- more of us are plowing up our lawns

“This year, 39 percent of people with backyards told the Garden Writers Association they planned to grow vegetables,” the Christian Science Monitor tells us.
Recent spikes in gas and food prices this spring are turning many in the USA to home-food production, it seems.
We welcome that, of course. We’ve been excited about the whole ‘eat [...]

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- obese people worsen global warming!

It stands to reason that larger people eat more than smaller ones, which means that it takes more agricultural production — a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions — to feed them, too.
Basic physics also tells us that it takes more energy to move larger people around in planes, trains or automobiles. And unless [...]

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- $45,000 buys a new car and fuel for the rest of your life

That’s what the Sierra Club is telling us.  You need sun, still, since the fuel is electricity, derived from a photovoltaic system.   And then there’s the regular maintenance on the car.  But given that plenty of people spend over $45,000 on their cars alone, and if you really do keep your new car for a [...]

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- the flush of life (well, death, really)

For some reason we here at EarthQuaker have become interested in the idea of ‘green’ deaths recently.
We’ve even been fantasizing about buying our own local redwood forest for a Quaker-focused green burial site, going so far as to investigate US state law on the subject.
But maybe we should be looking at alkaline hydrolysis instead, a [...]

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- real urban farming

‘Urban farming’ can mean many things.  For some people it amounts to little more than growing herbs on their window sill — admirable, of course, but hardly what you could call a commercial enterprise.
Other urban growers, though, really are farming — in the sense of raising crops in volume that they then sell on to [...]

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