Carnival of the Green #147!
September 29, 2008
Hi there and welcome to the 147th edition of the Carnival of the Green. As you can see, I am on a sort of hiatus right now (busy busy!) and this here little blog is looking as neglected as the environment in a Sh&ll board meeting. Well… sorry about that. I’ll be back soon. Don’t you quit on me now, all 6 of you!
So anyway, I’m interrupting our regular programming of radio silence to bring you Treehugger’s Carnival of the Green, a weekly digest of green stories from around the blogosphere. Last week, the Carnival made a stop over at The Green Guy and next week Sustainablog will pick up the torch.
And now, without further ado, here is your Carnival:
- Nimic over at the Green Routine surprises us with 8 unexpected products derived made from oil.
- Beth Terry from Fake Plastic Fish meditates about her experience of encountering a plastic water bottle in the most unlikely place.
- This Sustainable Life finds the beauty of community gardens born from the most unlikely urban spaces.
- The Expatriate’s Kitchen shares her thoughts on school lunch.
- Over at the Veggie Revolution the case is made for drinking greener, tastier and cheaper Arabica coffee instead of Robusta.
- The Digerati Life has some, uh, original suggestions for house furnishings on $0 budget.
- And The Bad Human does green renovations.
- Super Gas Saver goes back to the basics and explains what is a hybrid car.
- However, the Triple Pundit reports NYC cabbies aren’t too keen on hybrid cabs.
- Lighter Footstep proposes the Ten Mile Pledge – saving ten miles of driving each week would cut 500 punds of CO2 a year.
- Money Blue Book, on the other hand, proposes driving in the rain to get a free car wash and welcomes high gas prices as traffic control.
- And, according to Saving Advice, green electricity is not worth the extra cost.
And that’s it for this week’s carnival. Feel free to discuss your thoughts in the comments. Thanks to everyone who submitted their stories.
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1. Joe | September 29, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I just came over here for the good ol’ Carnival o’ the Green (which I forgot to submit to), and was flabbergasted by your picture of you about to bite a flower. It is k-razy how similar it is to a picture of me, as seen here:
http://www.ecojoes.com/5-steps-to-becoming-an-eco-hero/
Anyhoo, good luck with your hiatus, enjoy it while it lasts!
2. Beth Terry | September 29, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Hey, thanks for coming out of hibernation to host the carnival. Looking forward to reading the other posts.
Beth
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8. The Digerati Life | October 5, 2008 at 3:00 am
Thanks so much for hosting this great carnival!
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12. natural makeup | October 12, 2008 at 7:28 am
yes! thanks for hosting the green carnival! keep it up!
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14. Raj | May 23, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Happy to see that you are out of the closet and hosting the carnival of the green. Looking forward to reading more.
15. web design in miami | June 23, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Exactly what I was looking for – something interesting and educating to read while I pretend I’m working
I have 30 minutes till the shift ends, these articles should be enough. Thanks, and don’t tell my boss 
16. Gia | October 2, 2009 at 5:11 am
The plastic water bottle issue really gets me. Actually, a few college campuses have stopped selling water bottles all together and sell low-cost reusuable bottles and provide water stations to fill them up with filtered tap water for free! It’s a great idea to help college campuses go green though it proves a little impractical in certain areas like the school gyms (all the old water bottle machines are now just filled with sodas and iced teas) but no program is perfect. I don’t know if that’s of any interest to anyone, but I thought I’d put it out there in case anyone else was on the hunt for interesting instances of phasing out bottled water.