One doesn’t usually go to personal finance sites for good green advice, but reducing one’s footprint often means using less, and that can save a lot of money. M. Butler describes what happened when she got rid of her car:

This morning I attended an inspirational forum lead by Australian activist and “Deep Ecologist” John Seed. It was hosted by the Sustainability Network [www.sustain.web.ca], which is a Toronto company that works to enrich nonprofit environmental agencies by providing management assistance and training. The focus of this forum, which was part of Mr. Seed’s five-month international tour, was on ...

Carbon offsetting provokes a powerful emotional response in some people. They just don’t like the idea that you can pay someone else to mop up your carbon emissions. It smacks of indulgence and cheating. Critics say buying an offset while continuing to fly, or drive an SUV, or live in a mansion with all the lights on, is at ...

From the “I had no idea Google was not green” department comes this story from our friends down under. Early this year members of a fledgling search engine company in Australia read a blog by environmentalist Mark Ontkush. In that posting, Ontkush speculated that, collectively, Google users with CRT screens could save the world 3,000 megawatt-hours of electricity per ...

This weekend the world witnessed the first global environmental event of the century, Live Earth. While the majority of attention was paid to musical performances, celebrities, and Al Gore’s decision to greet the Tokyo crowd as a hologram (yes, literally), the true purpose of all these bells and whistles was to simply communicate how people can reduce their environmental impact.

Every Thursday night, like every other householder in our neighborhood, I collect our waste paper, cans, bottles and plastic and put them out on the street outside our house. On Friday morning a local municipal truck comes by and collects it for recycling. I pay for this service through my taxes. Apart from some gripes about the efficiency of the ...