A weekly Green round-up of Twilight Earth’s favorite websites
How To Make A Rain Barrel (DIY Video)
By Eco Tech Daily
If you water your lawn during the summer months, 40% of your total water use could be going towards your lawn. What better reason to make a rain barrel? The following video will tell you how to make your own rain barrel, step by step.
The Empire State Building Goes Green
By Green Living Ideas
It’s not just the people in America who are becoming energy efficient. Some of America’s most well known buildings are making the transition to green living. It’s probably just as well — the iconic structures of America, after all, set the example not just for the country, but for the rest of the world!
The end of fish could soon be upon us
by Mother Nature Network
Beneath the waters of the world’s oceans are huge swaths of empty sea where there once were massive schools of fish. We’re fishing our way to total disaster.
The saddest untold story in the environmental movement is the demise of the worlds oceans. We are literally eating it to death. Fish stocks are collapsing all around the world as more than a million commercial sized fishing boats drag traps, nets, and miles of hooked line, snaring over a hundred million tons of sea life a year. Modern fishing techniques like trawling and gillnetting scoop up everything in the water for miles, much of the fish and other marine life is simply tossed back into the sea, dead or dying. It’s clearcut hunting and it’s happening everywhere on the planet where there are still fish.
Activists Turn Up the Heat on Tar Sands’ Bank
By Solve Climate
As the global economic crisis has made all too clear, there is one choke point for almost any business: its source of financing.
Rainforest Action Network activists were thinking about that this morning as they hung a banner outside the Toronto offices of RBC, Canada’s largest bank and the nation’s biggest financier of efforts to extract oil from the Alberta tar sands.
10 Reasons to Shop Local
By Green Upgrader
Choosing greener alternatives is important for sustainability but where you shop in many cases is the most important factor. Shopping locally is important for environmental sustainability as well as economic sustainability. When you shop locally you are supporting members of your own community who are also vested in the heath and success of the community. You are also traveling less and requiring less things to be shipped meaning less carbon, pollution and traffic congestion.
Chickens In Suburbia: One Couple’s Foray Into Urban Homesteading
By Gaiam
If you’ve never heard of urban homesteading, you’re probably not alone. In fact, just a couple of years ago, Everett Sizemore — now one of Denver’s many proponents of the movement — was pretty uninformed about what growing food and maintaining animals on one-eighth of an acre entailed.
The Eco-Friendly Jet Ski: A little Pro, A Little Con
By Greenopia
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re sitting on a dock on a beautiful lake, dipping your feet in the clear water. Loons are flying around, (we’re in New England, stay with me,) the sun is shining, and life is good. Until you hear a cross between a jack-hammer/helicopter/buzz-saw from Hades – and it’s coming straight at you! Nah, it’s no demon. Worse, it’s just your neighbors on a jet ski.
photo credit: Seamus Murray
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Nice. I’m dreaming of becoming one of your favorite websites
My favorite is the 10 Reasons to Shop Local – I love the charts. I know it’s a cliche, but sometimes a picture paints a thousand words.
Had an extra busy week so being able to read your top green picks is a GREAT time saver! Thanks!
Wendy,
You are very welcome. It is something that we’ll be doing every Saturday. Doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t visit us every day though! -laugh-
Adam