I am going to suggest something here to you, my dear reader; the suggestion is that with some thinking, initial steps and planning, you can be on your way to a better future, reduce you environmental footprint and not really impact your lifestyle too much. I know, it sounds like a quick fix, snake [...]
Archive for May, 2008
First steps to reduce your impact
Posted in Self-Sufficiency, Tips, tagged Downshifting, Environment, Recycle on 2008/05/27 | 2 Comments »
Greenpeace and the Games Industry
Posted in Technology, tagged Games Industry, GreenPeace on 2008/05/20 | 2 Comments »
According to this BBC article on GreenPeace and the gaming industry, they are now going after the gaming industry to reduce harmful/toxic chemicals/components in the consoles (this is similar to their work last year on the computer industry that took special interest in Apple and it’s apparent lack of action (Apple’s been doing things, instead [...]
Book Review – Quick Solutions
Posted in Book Review, tagged Book Review on 2008/05/17 | 1 Comment »
This is me finally getting around to the book review I promised back in the Upcoming Book Review post of April 13th, 2008. So, the three books (originally just two, but this is my blog, so I’m going with 3 now) are:
The Home Energy Diet by Paul Scheckel
Smart Power by William Kemp
Heat by George [...]
Moved ISPs and here’s the results
Posted in Technology, tagged Technology on 2008/05/12 | 1 Comment »
I finally moved ISPs today, from Rogers to Teksavvy, upon the experience of a friend of mine, Madgunde (over at ArtofGeek.com); well, it was abit more involved than I might have liked; but they (Teksavvy) have already been better to me with support than Rogers ever was. So, I decided to run a SpeedTest [...]
Waste and Recovery…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Environment, Self-Sufficiency on 2008/05/03 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about this idea recently (partially spurred by various articles and the idea that resources are becoming scarcer to) of looking to our landfill sites and determining how much of the junk and garbage in there is really just waiting for the right time and price before they become “mines” for us to [...]
