12/31/11
December 31rst of every year is a day I look forward to, not only for the usual reasons, but because it’s day I fill the Honda Insight’s last gas tank for the year. Then I get to sit down with a hot cup of tea tally up my carbon emissions for the year: gasoline, jet [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Deb's CO2 Output Data,
Electric Vehicles,
Garbage,
Garden,
Home Energy Savings,
Water | tags:
Carbon Footprint,
less pollution,
What a regular Seattle citizen is doing |
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- Currently Listening To: I listened to the *whole* broadcast of Strauss' "Die Die Fledermaus". my all-time favorite opera, on KING Classical FM this morning! Happy New Year!
12/27/11
Happy Boxing Day to all my Deb Goes Green readers and fans! I hope you Yule (etc.) was pleasant and meaningful. As I sit here now in my Seattle living room, I hear clink and the clank of the neighbors putting out their trash for pickup day tomorrow… and I am not joining them, as [...more ...]
Catergories:
Garbage,
Plastic Pollution | tags:
CO2,
evils of single-use plastics,
Garbage,
lack of garbage,
less pollution |
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- s2mail: yes
- Currently Reading:: "Silver Girl" by Elin Hildebrand
- Currently singing: Having just mentioned the "No Such Thing As Waste" song, of course, I'm humming it!
12/21/11
Wow! Who’d have thunk it? The “Little ZENN Car” music video (about Deb’s electric car) is receiving all sorts of attention…wow! -Video was aired Friday Dec 16, 2001 by a UK based Internet Show, “Transport Evolved”: http://www.transportevolved.com/transport-evolved-episode-80-birthday-candles -Video was reviewed and posted also on Friday Dec 16, 2001 by Green Car Reports the same day: [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Electric Vehicles,
Transportation | tags:
Car,
Deb,
Little,
Music,
Musician,
Seattle,
Seymour,
Video,
ZENN |
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- s2mail: yes
- Currently Reading:: All the awesome blog sites mentioned above!
12/19/11
Last July, I got the scale and it said “195″. Ouch. I’m only 5’5″. Double ouch. I realized that the last two and year of taking care on one dying and one ill parent had done a real number on my health. And that number was staring back in my face with its evil red [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Food,
Garbage,
Plastic Pollution | tags:
clutter clearing,
diet,
Garbage,
Plastic pollution |
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- s2mail: yes
- Currently Listening To: KING Classical Radio in the mornings!
- Currently Reading: "Cryoburn" by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Currently singing: "I feel pretty! Oh, so pretty!"
12/13/11
The “Little ZENN Car” Music Video is finally HERE! Yes- it’s about my all-electric car, a ZENN, made by the ZENN Motor Company in Toronto, ON. As most of you know, not only am I an eco-blogger and web designer, but I am also an actively gigging singer-songwriter. Mostly I write of love, loss and goofy life [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Electric Vehicles,
Transportation | tags:
Alternative Transportation,
electric car music video,
Electric Vehicles,
Seattle Electric Vehicle Assocation |
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- s2mail: yes
- Currently Listening To: "Little ZENN Car"...duh! (Kind of hard not to, when publishing my own music video!)
- Currently Reading: "Cryofreeze" by Lois McMaster Bujold
11/25/11
No, I don’t use plastic straws at home. In fact, I don’t use straws at *all* at home. Thought doesn’t even occur to me. So why is it, when at a restaurant- no matter what kind-it is assumed that there *must* be a drinking straw in any kind of cold drink I order? Do they [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Garbage,
Plastic Pollution |
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- s2mail: yes
- Currently Reading: "A Civil Campaign" by Lois McMaster Bujold
11/22/11
The holidays are upon us (argh) and so is the siren call of STUFF! STUFF! MORE STUFF! But you can ignore that call. In my household, I strive for a waste-free Christmas and also to keep things as local as possible, rather than support shipping container loads of cheap junk from over-seas. Here is a [...more ...]
11/17/11
In “Kicking the Plastic: Part One” I discussed the ubiquitous-ness of the stuff (it’s everywhere), a brief history of plastics, (multi-useful, inherently moldable) the myths of plastic recycling (it never really breaks down) and health hazards of plastics (it off-gasses, chokes oceans and landfills and too much may lead to various illnesses) I then said [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Garbage,
Plastic Pollution |
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- s2mail: yes
- Currently Listening To: "Point of Entry" by Larry Murante
- Currently Reading: "Barry Lyndon" by William Thackeray and "The Wind In The Willows" by Kenneth Grahame.
11/01/11
OMG! I just stumbled upon this *incredble* song about “refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle” on Treehugger.com. Written by a young Australian man who goes by the name of “yardboidoroony“, this song manages to nail all the tenets of Permaculture Rule #6 ( “Don’t produce any waste”) and writes it into a humorous, sing-able, dance-able and, most [...more ...]
Catergories:
Garbage,
Moral / Ethical Issues |
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10/30/11
I’m in the air right now, returning from a trip where I tried to fly as “green” as possible. I know-it’s kind of a weird thought since airlines consume so much fuel. It almost makes one think “why bother?” But until we get better options for jet fuel and airplane design (go Boeing Dreamliner!) I [...more ...]
Catergories:
CO2 Output,
Garbage,
Transportation |
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- Currently Listening To: "Wild Wind" by Seattle singer-songwriter Charlotte Thistle.
- s2mail: yes
- Currently Reading:: "The Brahms Deception" by Louise Marley.
