Recently, I found a channel on my cable network called Planet Green.  This channel has hosts such as Emeril Legasse, Tom Green, Ed Begley Jr., Bill Nye (The Science Guy!!) as well as entrepreneurs, investors, builders and much more.  I find it to be entertaining, informative and engaging.  I see it as a reality channel; real life environmental problems, solutions and predicaments. But this post is not a promotion for this...

Although the shift in sustainable social consciousness continues, apparently not everyone has gotten the memo. How do we educate those who either don’t understand the consequence of their actions or just don’t want to be bothered?  Is social pressure enough or do we need laws to force people to adopt best practices?

It is chilly in the Midwest this time of year, but did the person who left their car running in the UPS parking lot last...

Human waste and taxpayer waste have gone hand in hand recently, with news of former Merrill Lynch boss John Thain’s furnishing of his bathroom, to the tune of $1.2 million and the recently departed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne spending $235,000 to renovate a bathroom which included monogrammed towels.

I am increasingly reading about home re-modeling that takes into account innovative water usage techniques, like capturing rainwater...