The Green Job Market

It’s undeniable; we as a country have fallen on some hard times. Unemployment has become startlingly common within the last couple of years. Businesses, employees and jobseekers alike are struggling to be more efficient and more competitive within their fields and within the market as a whole. I believe that a lot of (political) [...]

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For those of you left-brain thinkers…

Everyone is capable of contributing to environmental change, whether through media publication or data analysis, there is a job for everyone. Amongst the numerous resources available today, there seems to be a disconnect in how far one can go, especially with age restriction. Well, that is where EducaPoles comes to play, it works to connect [...]

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Eco Company TV - Importance of Rain Forests

We have recently become friends with the folks at Eco Company TV.  Eco Company is a wonderful platform devoted to bringing educational TV and video into homes across the nation and the world.  In addition to the excellent work that Bob and his team do on the creative front, they have also created an easy [...]

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Greenpress.com - Great idea and Great People

Greenpress.com is a is a free blogging platform for environmental, earth science, or green living topics. Where people can discuss and debate interesting articles you’ve read, share tips about how to live more sustainably, and help build a community of others who also value our little planet.  The idea is to create a community of bloggers [...]

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Growing food: learning what it takes, taking (and tasting) what is learned

With spring approaching in Wisconsin, I find myself looking forward to fresh, local produce—the ever-shifting offerings of the season, starting with tender young asparagus in the spring and ending with hearty squash in the late fall, and, of course, plenty of zucchini in between.
Although eating locally does not necessarily result in a net reduction of [...]

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Hummer Bummer? Might be Smarter than Dumber!

It was just announced that the “inked” deal for GM to sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, of China, has fallen through, most likely putting a final stake in the heart of the behemoth car brand.
Some are applauding this event, and others are bemoaning it, pointing out that by any [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week - Victoria Bogdan

Congratulations to Victoria Bogdan this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Victoria is a life long environmentalist - with a deep love of the out doors and an interest in learning how to make life on our planet sustainable both for humans and the other animals that we share the earth with.  The following is [...]

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Introducing - Shilpi

Saving the world one post at a time.

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Weekly Mulch: Green products, green energy

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Ed. note: This week’s Mulch is pint-sized and will run on Monday rather than Friday. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week.
Some people live off the grid, eat local food, and have an energy footprint so minuscule that even the canniest hunter couldn’t track them down. But the [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines of nuclear reactors.  President Barack Obama announced this week that two new nuclear plants will go up in Georgia, built on the promise that the federal government will [...]

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