one green step for man…

Add comment July 17th, 2008

i can’t keep up with every bit of eco-news. but our former veep, al gore, was all over the news today calling for end to carbon-fuel dependence in the next decade.

Gore compared the challenge to establishing Social Security and the Interstate highway system, as well as landing a man on the moon — all successes that took more than a single presidency to accomplish and required members of both political parties to overcome their partisanship.

The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group Gore leads, put the 30-year cost of his plan — both government and private — at $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion.

To speed up the transition to new energy sources, Gore said the single most important policy change would be to “tax what we burn, not what we earn,” advocating a tax on carbon dioxide pollution.

you can read his speech here or watch it. i hope you just don’t get “green fatigue” in the “green fog.”

now that’s a green lawn chair!

1 comment July 17th, 2008

my creative co-worker in charge of multimedia, chris soprych, shared this with me: Grow Your Own Lawn Chair.

the tip is courtesy of make magazine, which got it from treehugger.com.

“The Grass armchair is self assembled, each pack contains 14 corrugated cardboard frames and 100g pack of grass seeds. You will need about 240 litres of soil, to fill in the frame. First find the right spot, because once the armchair has grown you won’t be able to move it!! You can put up to 20cm of gravel with in the frame then the soil. Spread the seeds evenly using only 4/5 of the bag of seeds. Press them in and water slightly so that the soil is humid. Water the armchair everyday.”

so if you made the frame yourself, you’d be recycling and creating a reusable resource from renewable materials. too bad i just re-did my backyard.

by the way, make is a tech-inclined do-it-yourselfer magazine. i bought it for my father-in-law the engineer one year.