I’ll start this weeks Green Links Whidbey Island with a post from Zachary Shahan at CleanTechnica. Zachary gives us a list the Top 10 Clean Energy Topics to Keep an Eye On.
Vanessa Barrington writing for ecosalon gives us some fun and easy ways to lower our meat consumption. Calling all Carnivores: 7 Painless Ways to Be an Almost-Vegetarian. “Conventional livestock production uses tons of grain, water, and petroleum. It’s extremely inefficient, has huge environmental impacts, and is cruel to animals.”
Every thought of building a tea house? Inhabitat blogger Diane Pham shows us a Tea House Heated by Compost.
Lea Bogdan’s article, also in inhabitat, focuses on green kitchens. She shows us some of the imaginative work of designer Faltasi’s vision of the Eco Kitchen of the Future.
Lastly, we can thank the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy for there actions on behalf of Ebey’s Landing.The land around one of the most iconic buildings in Ebey’s Landing Historical Reserve will maintain its rural character for generations. Here is a link to the announcement.
Green Links Whidbey Island starts this week with a post on Clean Technica from Tina Casey. Mission Viejo, California has become the latest in a string of cities to try out a new sustainable street-scale solar powered trash compactor called the BigBelly Solar Compactor. The city hopes to cut trash pickups from street containers by up to 80%, which in turn would help cut greenhouse gas emissions, reduce fuel use, and shave some costs off the city’s waste hauling budget.
Vanessa Barrington, writing for ecosalon, has a review of the film “The End of the Line.” The movie has been called “The Inconvenient Truth” for the oceans.
“It takes 5 kilos of anchovies to produce 1 kilo of farmed salmon. This practice takes protein directly out of the mouths of poor people in distant countries that depend on this fish for their nourishment – all so middle class people can treat salmon as an everyday commodity food, instead of as the special treat it should be.”
Vanessa indicates that some of the stories in the film will shock people; maybe that is necessary. “The best part of the film is the point it makes that, unlike many environmental problems, this problem is eminently solvable. We just need to give the fishing stocks a break and allow them to recover.”
Click the above photo to see the trailer of the movie “The End of the Line”.
Yuka Yoneda writes a post in inhabitat about bicycle helmets. Just a short piece entitled “Bike Helmets That Don’t Make You Look Like a Dork”. I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Should anyone really care?
Finally a slide show from treehugger of The Best and Worse of 2009 – The Year in Water. Just click on the photo to view the show.
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