Green Wine & Porcupine, Sergio Mottura Grecchetto, Gambero Rosso

Why do some wines get your attention and others don't?At a large tasting such as Gambero Rosso, it could be a familiar face, the winery itself as you are already acquainted.When I got to Sergio Mottura spot in the Gambero Rosso line up, both my minds and my taste buds were...

Are Environmentalists Fascists in Disguise Asks Jonah Goldberg?

I could not help but stop what I was doing when I heard Are environmentalists fascists in disguise ? as one of the questions posed in a BBC Interview of Jonah Goldberg promoting his book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of...

Buy Less Stuff: Shortest Road to Going Green and Saving Some

People often talk about the third rail of politics or business, in Taboo Talk in Green Business: Buy Less Stuff (GreenBiz.com, December 22nd), Joel Makower offers one of his Strategies for the Green Economy (also the title of his book). He notes that "reducing or limiting...

From Coworking to Cohousing as a Sustainable Way of Life

Is Cohousing a way to reduce our wasteful ways and also to recover a sense of community? If the plan offered by Alex Marshall a journalist and senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association named Brooklyn Cohousing works it might enable some of us to make progress in that...

Ever Thought of Using Solar Power to Iron Your Clothes?

Have you ever thought of using a solar powered iron for your clothes, this is one of the suggestions made in How to unplug from the grid by Gaia Vince in the Go-off grid (December 3rd Issue) of the New Scientist...

Organic as Beer in Espresso and Pomegranate Flavors

I mentioned Peak Organic in passing not so much for their brews as for their online community sharing.The brewery came back on my radar thanks to Inhabitat Green Gift Guide Under $20 List.Of their choices, most intriguing to me are first the Pomegranate Wheat Ale with Acai...

How to Green your Thanksgiving? No Green Eggs or Green Meat, Please!

With only 2 days to go before Thanksgiving 2008, what could be a better subject for Green Day than How to Green your Thanksgiving and I don't mean green eggs or green meat by that.You can start with your bird, if you are a meat eater by buying one from a free-range farm.It is...

Big and Green, How to Build that Dream House?

OK, not too many of us are making plans to build a mansion right now, even a green one as showcased in A glam, glitzy and green Hillsborough mansion by Susan Fornoff (San Francisco Chronicle, July 2008).Rather than the 'life of the rich and famous' aspect of the story what...

Clean Your Dry Cleaning! Goodbye Plastic, Hello Green Garmento

While many grocery stores and supermarkets of all stripes are cleaning their act on the plastic bag side, dry cleaners (in the US at least) still consume a prodigious amount of the stuff to shield everything from skirts to shirts.Some practical minds decided to change that...

Negawatts...Turn it Off and Save Big

After spending decades tallying our energy spending in Megawatts, will Negawatts steal the limelight.The bedroom soul classic Turn Off the Lights by Teddy Pendergrass takes a new meaning if we start thinking how all our lights, gizmos, computers and the rest are burning a...