I’m the type of person that prefers to be hot rather than cold.  Needless to say, I’m looking forward to summer.   I understand however, that the hot weather can be a challenge for a lot of people – especially if your house isn’t designed to cool rooms naturally.  Those warm, sunny days can mean over-heated apartments and hot sticky nights (remember those?).  Before you break out the AC unit this summer, think twice...

A few weeks ago, Michelle Obama and a group of local school children planted a vegetable garden on the White House lawn.  This story struck me as exciting news.  My grandmother had a vegetable garden in which I spent time as a child.  I enjoyed picking peapods and strawberries and eating obscure foods like gooseberries and kohlrabi.  My grandmother would squish crop eating beetles between her bare fingers and throw grubs that...

I highlighted in a recent blog posting how the Princeton Review now includes a Green Rating for colleges and universities around the nation.  This piqued my curiosity: how is my alma mater, The University of Notre Dame, measuring up?

The University of Notre Dame received an 86; out of a possible 99 points. I consider that pretty respectable given that the Green movement continues to gain momentum among individuals, businesses and...

It’s Time for Some Serious Trash Talk.

With that slogan splashed across the facemask of an imposing Philadelphia Eagle football player, you enter the Eagles’ Go Green website, exhibit A in my challenge to my good friend Mardi Ditze. She wrote two weeks ago about sports’ detrimental environmental impact that sporting events create, but sports and teams can actually help lead important changes on a wide range of sustainability issues, and my...

I don’t usually rifle through my wife’s mail (ok, yes I do), especially her alumni magazine from her high school, Buckingham, Browne and Nichols, in Cambridge, MA. When I turned to the back cover of the most recent issue, I received a nice surprise: Community Energy’s Printed with 100% Wind Energy logo staring back at me in all its glory. I was excited to see the printer and our customer, Flagship Press, using the logo to demonstrate their...