Fairly Conservative

No doubt Ken Salazar, Obama’s Secretary of the Interior, chose a Tuesday on purpose to dash the dreams of drilling offshore in America. Oh, I know technically it’s just a longer comment period, but I don’t think it’s too hard to read between those lines. Here’s a response from the American Petroleum Industry: WASHINGTON – [...]

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Read this funny article on how the UK is going greener now that the economy has slowed. The comments are interesting, too. H/T: a loyal reader

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The family gave up bottled water several months ago. Before we used it for car trips and after sports practice for the youngest, but now we’ve all found the right sized bottles for the car’s cup holders, and we fill it from the tap. Now I’ll admit we use a reverse osmosis system because Brookfield [...]

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Hop over to Practically Speaking to find out how the lack of sun spots could lower Al Gore’s future income.

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To get the full effect you need to read Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger. It seems the Nobel prize environmentalist is really good at cut and past. It’s an inconvenient truth. Part of his film is generated in Hollywood, not real life. “Is it wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated video…” Watch the video [...]

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That’s my own final R on this Earth Day bonanza. The sky is not falling. The world isn’t coming to an end. And like my good acquaintance Kyle Prast showed on Practically Speaking, even Al Gore isn’t willing to give up his creature comforts in exchange for a purposeful effort towards saving the planet. By [...]

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There are four brown grocery bags open sideways on a garage shelf. Chip board (cereal boxes, soda boxes), newspapers, office paper, and magazines/junk mail go into them. When they’re full they go beside the bin. I sort the mail coming up the driveway, so junk never makes it into the house. Magazines are a love/hate [...]

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Ok, these two are pretty obvious. Don’t buy it if you don’t need it. If you’re done with it, find someone else who might want it. That works for the big stuff. But what about all of that landfill trash generated by the daily things? Don’t worry, I’m not going to suggest letting your used [...]

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One of the hardest things I’ve done is try to refuse the plastic bags at the grocery store. If I know I’m headed to the store, sure, I’ll take my own. The problem is the grocery is often a last minute stop at the end of other errands. So, I’ve taken to stashing canvas bags [...]

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“Happy Earth Day, Mom!” The youngest left the house just now in a smashing organic cotton tunic. (Good grief, youth is wasted on the young.) I’m not throwing on organic cotton anything, but I thought we’d have a go at being green. First, here are two timely announcements. Flanner’s Home Entertainment in Brookfield is holding [...]

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