http://www.debgoesgreen.com One Woman's Attempt At CO2 Sobriety In An Oil-Addicted World Fri, 04 May 2012 00:03:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1566 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1566#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 00:03:19 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1566 As many of my readers already know, I put a solar hot water system (with electric backup) in my Seattle house in 2008. (See  my Solar In Seattle page.) And now I have solar panels as well. All two of them. Say hello to the Seattle City Light’s inaugural Community Solar Project! This year, the [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1566 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1546 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1546#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:11:30 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1546 Yep! It’s what you think it is: a giant DC super Fast-Charger for electric cars! And better, yet, installed by the Great State of Washington, where we have formed the West Coast Green Highway Project in cadence with Oregon and California. The goal of the project is to make 440-volt DC Fast-Charge stations publically available [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1546 3 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1528 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1528#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:03:30 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1528 Sigh. It’s been one of those weeks around greening my home and striving towards zero waste. I put out the trash today. Was it more trash than usual? No. Same 12-gallon box. Was it more compost than usual? Nope. Same 24 gallon city container. Was it more recycling than usual? Nope.  It is the same 64 gallon [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1528 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1509 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1509#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:48:10 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1509 So it’s not just me in this big old world trying to make an ecological, greening difference. The people who write the following blogs have been a *HUGE* inspiration and,as fellow travelers on the eco path, have given me even more impetus to do what I am trying to do in my search for CO2 [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1509 3 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1476 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1476#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:20:54 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1476 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 ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1476 2 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1466 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1466#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:19:19 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1466 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 ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1466 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1459 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1459#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:14:46 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1459 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 ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1459 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1443 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1443#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:46:27 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1443 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 ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1443 4 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1436 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1436#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:03:06 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1436   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 ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1436 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1418 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1418#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:03:40 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1418 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 ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1418 0