December Green Energy Times is Here
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Snuggling In For Winter
By Jessica Barber Goldblatt I have been thinking a lot this fall about how to get through our long northern winters. How do we bare the weather, seal drafts, ski some and just get through until the spring comes? Then … Continue reading →
Greening Our Holiday Celebrations
By Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Sipping eggnog, listening to carols by the fire and enjoying the beauty of colorfully decorated homes are all warm memories the holiday season conjures. Yet with the rising popularity of Black Friday and Cyber … Continue reading →
West Hill House B&B: A Great Green Destination
By Michelle Harrison Vermont is a beautiful state with many areas to explore. As a reader of Green Energy Times, finding locations with a sustainable focus for lodging, a retreat, or special event is of high interest. If your travels … Continue reading →
Netflix for Toys
The sharing economy is reaching those who are still learning how to share. By AVITAL ANDREWS Two years ago, Ranan Lachman, whose kids were then three and five, was spending thousands on Legos. His children would take two hours to … Continue reading →
Recycling and It’s Expense and Emissions
By Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Americans generate about 254 million tons of trash and recycle and compost about 87 million tons of this material, which adds up to a 34.3 percent national recycling rate. Recycling and composting prevented the … Continue reading →
Holiday Cooking – with the Sun!
A day of blue sky and sunshine in the middle of December is to be celebrated. And you’ve never celebrated the sun like you do when you cook with a solar oven. Even as we approach the shortest day in … Continue reading →
Microbeads are in the News!
By Larry Plesent Imagine over one trillion non-biodegradable tiny plastic beads going down drains across America each and every day. That’s 3,650,000,000,000,000 beads washed down the drains of America just in the past decade. These microbeads are not biodegradable in … Continue reading →
Micro-beads in Your Toothpaste
Micro-beads May be Lurking in Your Toothpaste or Other Cosmetic Products By GET Staff Plastic micro-beads can be used as very gentle abrasives, and are soft enough that they wind up being used as abrasives in toothpaste. Many of us … Continue reading →
Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Local Food, and Vulnerable Communities
By Jennifer Wilhelm NASA scientists report that 2015 is expected to be the hottest year on record. The summer and the months of September and October were the hottest recorded, but what does a global temperature increase of half a … Continue reading →