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173 days ago
By Dave Peiser I went last night to the kickoff for the Cottonwood Creek Environmental Film Festival ( http://www.cottonwoodfilm.org/ ), where awards were given for some of the entrants in the festival this year. One comment given by award recipient Josh Berry (Writer and Producer: Keeping Coast) that stuck with me is that "film is activism". More and more films are being created that make available information about realities in our world that are often filtered out or not focused on by mainstream media. I believe it is all of our duties to keep well-informed, so we can make this planet a better and better place to live, so my tip of the month is to Go see an Environmental Film. So where do you go to see an environmental film? One place is an environmental film festival. Here is a link to a listing of festivals in the United States: Environmental Film Festival List. It's missing The Cottonwood Creek festival, but I'll excuse them ...359 days ago
By Dave Peiser With the holidays approaching, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look at what is available today for someone wanting to stay green for the holidays. Help Someone Else My first thought every holiday season is to give a gift that honors the recipient but is actually a contribution that helps someone else in the world. My first choice for this year is an organization with a unique program for making the world a little closer through classroom art projects. Class Act ( www.classactarts.org ) has been in existence for ten years, and in 2008 started a global outreach program which is designed to support arts education for adopted classrooms (and general education of girls) in developing countries. Their local school art programs link the local classroom of children with those in adopted classrooms in a developing country where they fund school supplies, school art projects and other educational needs. It's an incredible ...383 days ago
By Dave Peiser When I was younger and learned about Aladdin, the lamp and the Genie, I thought deeply about what I would wish for if I had those three wishes. I came to the conclusion that my first wish would be for a million more wishes. In a similar way, for this month, I advocate for reading books as the green tip of the month. This limitless source of tips, methods, and ways to live a life of greenliness, is like the fulfillment of one of the wishes from Aladdin's lamp. If you're just tipping your toe into the sea of green living, there are a number of easy, quick reads that can quickly help you on your way. One book I like is Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying by David Bach. There's not more than one tip per page, with colorful pictures and he just has a way of making you feel like it will be easy to follow many of the suggestions. A great book with lists of things you can do is It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for ...
420 days ago
By Dave Peiser There’s a very easy way for most of us to get moving toward a greener lifestyle – Use facial tissues, toilet paper and paper towels made from recycled paper. The National Resources Defense Council estimates that if every household in the U.S. used just one roll of Recycled Paper Towels it could save 544,000 trees; one roll of Recycled Toilet Paper could save 423,900 trees; replace one box of virgin fiber facial tissues (175 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, and we could save 163,000 trees. (See the full article with product lists at http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/gtissue.asp ). And not only do you save trees; there is also a reduction in the energy required to produce the products and a reduction in air and water pollution as well. The impact of just this one small change in behavior is staggering. So where do you find these products? How about at your local grocery store? Many stores have been carrying ...
