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Green diswasher detergents compare well with conventional brands

After a long week of paper writing and spreadsheet wrestling, I've got a looot of dishes to do this weekend. Good thing Consumer Reports decided to issue their list of the best dishwasher detergents this week. And guess what? Two green brands -- Ecover and Seventh Generation -- made the grade. (Sorry, faithful box of Cascade. Time to go!)

Tips on being a green driver

I haven't had a car for 11 years. Not because I'm particularly virtuous, but because I moved to Manhattan where there's, um, no place to park one.

But my identity as car owner did not go gently into that good night. Before I left Texas for NYC, I fretted almost constantly about leaving my car stereo, my sunroof -- my freedom! -- behind.

And now -- well, now I'm fretting constantly about becoming a car owner again.

This one in North Carolina

I think you have to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal to see this, but I’ll excerpt the relevant bit: North Carolina regulators balked at a big power project fueled by coal, which furnishes half of U.S. electricity but is on the defensive over worries about pollution and global-warming gases. The state utilities commission gave […]

Slim

Continuing on the subject of what Dems should plan in terms of global warming legislation over the next two years, here’s some insight on what conservatives are planning: At the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, right-wing activist and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist urged conservatives not to work to accomplish anything in the current Congress. “Get […]

Guess

… coal is the enemy of the human race!

Yippee

Tony Blair continues to go for the green in an attempt to salvage his legacy: Tony Blair will next week complete a British U-turn over green energy and support an ambitious 20 per cent mandatory target for renewable power as a share of European generation capacity. The British prime minister has overruled his industry minister […]

Get to stitchin’, bitchez

Yo-ho-ho me fellow lovers of the briny deep. I realized just recently that me li’l column be runnin’ for a whole year now. Remember that first arrrr-ticle? With the joking about poop decks and the promise to shiver ye timbers? (And speaking of that, we should get together soon, matey …) How the time flies […]

A new blog — just what the world needs

I get lots of requests along the lines of, "hey, I just started a new green blog, will you give me a mention and a link?" Before you send one … don’t. Why? Because the vast majority of blogs don’t make it past six months, and fewer still make it past a year. Starting a […]

Love, Nancy

Via The Gavel, a letter issued yesterday by Nancy Pelosi, et al, re: Green this Hill, damnit: The Honorable Daniel P. Beard Chief Administrative Officer U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Beard: We are writing to direct you to undertake a critical initiative to address energy conservation, efficiency and cost savings for […]

The beginning of a deluge

Two of the world’s leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidly growing alternative-energy field. That’s Shell and BP, if you’re interested.