http://www.debgoesgreen.com One Woman's Attempt At CO2 Sobriety In An Oil-Addicted World Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:22:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1943 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1943#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:01:56 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1943 Shove it, Monsanto.  This garden has been pesticide-free since 1995. And now…[drum roll, please...]…presenting  Deb’s Late Spring Planting 2013!]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1943 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1882 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1882#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 05:13:38 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1882 One of the hardest things about keeping down the ever-combative tide of junk in my house is making the decision to give something away. The *second* hardest is *sticking* to that decision…or rather, it *used* to be. Enter the “Ongoing Outgoing Basket” concept. It used to be that I would go on a “give-away” rampages [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1882 2 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1904 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1904#comments Sun, 26 May 2013 20:51:29 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1904 Dear Little VW  ”BIOAUTO”  Parked In in Kirkland, WA, March 2013: Hello from your alt-fuel cousin Zoe ZENN Car!  Even though you are not an all-electric car like me, I am so glad to see you! You see, despite the explosion of Nissan LEAFS, Chevy Volts and Teslas in the Pacific Northwest, sometimes it is [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1904 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1899 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1899#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:15:05 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1899 Whoopie! I ‘ve  driven  over 7000 electric car miles  in my 2008 ZENN all-electric Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV)! So, what does that mean in Carbon Footprint terms ? Well, let’s do some math: -7000 city miles  at 20 MPG (Acura, Buick, BMW,etc) =350 gallons of  gas -7000 city miles  at 29 MPG (Mazda Protoge, Honda Fit, etc) [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1899 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1853 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1853#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:33:05 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1853 “Toot- toot!”, honked  Zoe ZENN Car recently. “I now have even MORE new EV friends!” Once again,  I had to travel to CA on a Mom Emergency Visit and once again, I drove my beloved Zoe ZENN Car to the SeaTac airport garage and parked her in the EV charging bay on the fifth floor. [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1853 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1848 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1848#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:56:08 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1848 Concord, MA has become the first city in the USA to ban single-use plastic bottles! I an really excited about this! I, too, once bought into the Bottles Water Myth. I was going to be healthy, darn it! Who could tell what was *really* lurking in the City Tap Water? Probably all sorts of Noxious [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1848 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1838 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1838#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:59:43 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1838 On late Tuesday (or was it early on Wednesday?) of last week,  I received an invitation from Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield to be a guest on her international podcast about electric vehicles, “Transport Evolved”. WOWIE! What a chance to go on air and blabber about my favorite subject aside from zero-waste: electric cars! And what a crash course, pardon [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1838 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1819 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1819#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:49:13 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1819 Why don’t I have a smart phone? It’s because of photos like these. All those cell phones that are either  in a landfill or in  a pile of e-waste that is being shipped to some far-off place like China where there are fewer regulations about burning. I LOVE technology- I really do- in fact, I [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1819 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1813 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1813#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:33:26 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1813 ]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1813 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1803 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1803#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:12:44 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1803 Earlier this year, I bought into the fledgling l Seattle Community Solar project. (See May 18, 2012 post) Specifically that means that two of the 442 solar panels perched upon picnic shelters in south-facing Jefferson Park are “attached” to my home in Northwest Seattle. What I mean by attached is that I don’t get the energy directly, [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1803 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1796 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1796#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:35:18 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1796 And now for the GOOD News:  I cut my recycling and water usage in half and decreased my garbage output by few gallons! The water came from carefully hand -watering more and bettering montioring of the drip system plus a very wet June and July The recyling cut-back came from making better use of the city’s [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1796 1 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1788 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1788#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:23:05 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1788 I’m frustrated to report that 2012 NOT a lean carbon year for me. Alas, despite *positive* decreases in water usage, garbage and recycling and adding two solar panels to my house via Seattle City Light*’s Community Solar Project, I produced the most carbon output since 2009. The  main culprits? Airplanes and gasoline engine cars. The [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1788 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1747 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1747#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:31:38 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1747 [Click on an image to open up an image viewing window. Once there, click on image *again* to enlarge.] Zoe ZENN Car  recently got to hang out with the Big Kids at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Garage EV charging bay while I was down in San Francisco visiting my mom for five days. It was the first [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1747 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1712 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1712#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:43:33 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1712 Ack! It is already December and I haven’t written an eco-post in two months! I confess, I have been focusing on my music career lately… (<—) This isn’t to say that I haven’t been continuing to practice all the personal greening stuff discussed on this blog! I am still driving my electric car, putting as little [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1712 0 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1677 http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1677#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:17:01 +0000 Deb http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?p=1677 Greetings from the fall garden…and hello, I haven’t disappeared! I can’t say as much for my last post in August, which DID disappear… I had written a long blog about the meat department at the Central Market in Shoreline, WA and how excited I was to find a store that eschewed plastic wrapping for their [...more ...]]]> http://www.debgoesgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=1677 0