Articles on Environmental Sustainability and Living Green
The articles on this website will range widely. I aim to stay in the realm of environmental sustainability articles and other green living opinion pieces, but I don't make any firm promises!
About this Site
Sustainability in the News: On Science and the Environment
On April 20th, 2006, the National Geographic published an article
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Alternative Fuel
The news has recently contained a large number of articles discussing the energy efficiency of ethanol based fuels. There have previously been many critics of et. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
The Myriad Forms of Alternate Energy
The need for renewable sources of energy is critical. Energy use skyrockets, fossil fuels gradually disappear, and we (Americans, especially) cross our fingers and. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Conservation
Conscientious living means thinking about your environment, your health, and your world in all your actions. Avoiding unnecessary waste is a key behavior to succe. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Environmentally Sustainable Computers: The Green Office
I've written about this before, and will probably write about it again. As a heavy computer user and also an environmentalist, keeping my home office green is a c. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Some companies have very high energy use. The reasons for this are pretty obvious: manufacturing requires a lot of energy. Computing requires a lot of energy. A. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Sprint's Reclaim: The green cellphone.
It's not the first time that cell phones have come up on this site, and I'm sure it won't be the last. With somewhere upwards of 100 million mobile phones being re. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 01 September, 2009
Every day I see new articles about a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of Bird Flu virus. Outbreaks in Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe - constant concern about. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
According to a wide variety of recent articles, Wal-Mart is jumping onto the environmentalism bandwagon. These articles, based on an interview by Amanda Little wit. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Why Subscribe to Print Magazines?
Although you can't really say that online publications have completely taken over the serial market, it's fair to say that the inroads towards fully electronic ava. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Energy Use
It often occurs to me to wonder what the sense is in using the internet for environmental purposes. It's all well to state that the medium saves on paper and incr. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
General
Welcome to the Conscientious Home!
The idea behind this website is to provide access to the wide variety of resources that can make keeping your home environmentally responsible easier. It's abou. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Hand in hand with the big green buzzwords like "quot;organic"quot; and "quot;natural"quot;, we often see the terms "quot;co-op"quot; and "quot;credit union"quot;. . . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Poll Results
The results of my poll on fuel technologies were pretty interesting. Like I thought, the answers were pretty scattered. (There were only 9 answers, but I can live. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Poll Results on Garden Watering
So, I'll freely admit that this poll was very, very, very late in ending. Scheduled for an October 1st, 2007 close, I just closed it today -- January 30th, 2008. I. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Poll Results on Garden Watering
So, I'll freely admit that this poll was very, very, very late in ending. Scheduled for an October 1st, 2007 close, I just closed it today -- January 30th, 2008. I. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Poll Results: Public Transit or Bust!
Well, to be entirely frank, I'm more than a little disappointed by the responses to my poll concerning public transit. While there was a decent percentage (nearly . . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
The Fuel Tax Poll: Funding Sustainable Energy.
Well, this site must be growing: this poll experienced more votes than any previously! With 13. Hey, 13 votes is enough to have some kind of interesting spread in . . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
What's the environmental commitment of visitors to this site?
'm always running a poll on this site, in hopes of gathering some information about attitudes and concerns about the environment from visitors to the site. Usually,. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 27 August, 2009
Recycling
A Live Gorilla: Cell phones can have a devastating cost.
On January 20th, 2006, the National Geographic published an interesting article concerning the relationship between cell phones and the African gorilla. This was. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Social Action
"Canvassing" the Grocery Stores
A simple canvas bag is one tool that everybody can easily work into their weekly routine to make a small environmental act. There are so many routine shopping act. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Environmental Investing: Placing your Finances in our Environment
With the recent appointment of Henry Paulson as Secretary of the Treasury, green investing is at the front of my mind. Henry Paulson is an unusual choice for Pres. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
On Boycotts and Environmental Information
A boycott is, most commonly speaking, a social action by a group or organization requesting consumers to avoid a specific commercial product or the products of a. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Toxic Environment
Antiobiotics: Building a Better Bacteria
It may be fair to say that the United States is compulsive about trying to improve their food supplies. Genetic modification, antibiotics, forced feeding, you nam. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Mosquito Control and the Environment
Fighting Mosquitos around the world is a difficult and unending task. For the summer months to be enjoyable in some places, extreme measures are sometimes taken. . . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
Toxic Plastic 3 - Turn Over the Bottle and Look!
lass="author"> Guest author Miriam Ellis-Loraditch spends half of her time birding, and the other half act. . .
Updated by Miriam Ellis-Loraditch on 24 August, 2009
Transportation
Public Transit: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Part 1: Bad Transit
I lived in Rochester, New York for two years - during that entire time, I traveled to and from work either on foot or by bus - and it was a MISERABLE experience. W. . .
Updated by Joe Dolson on 24 August, 2009
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