Unruled Notebook

Welcome to the February 5, 2007 edition of carnival of the green.

Without much ado, here are the posts that made it into this edition, listed in no particular order.

There are 23 of them and thanks for all of those who submitted their entries…

• Bora at a blog around the clock writes on Responsible consumption of shrimp and cites to a much more elaboarte post by Mark (better known around science blogs as the person running the Biomes Blog) on responsible shrimp buying at daily kos.

• Deepak Singh presents Ecoinformatics – Information for our planet posted at bbgm. The post discusses a reivew paper and presents ways to merge science and sustainability
• Vihar Sheth presents Go Green, Get Rich and Wasted Gas posted at Vihar Sheth.
• Justin Lowery presents Why Flex-Fuel Is America�s Next Biggest Blunder � Part One posted at blog4brains.com.
• Madcap presents Orwell’s “Doublethink” and the Liberal Mind posted at The Global Conservative.
• Jordan Ballor at acton power blog writes that the issue of access to clean water is one of critical importance for millions of people, and the NCC trivializes these needs by engaging in flagrantly overblown rhetorical gamesmanship.
• Will Chen presents Packing it in – The Independent of London issues a challenge posted at Wisebread suggesting ways to reduce shopping packaging.
• Adam Brock at the wild green yonder reveals in his post The Zero-Energy Chinese Cancer Factory that SOM has designed a 71-story zero energy skyscraper for Guangdong. The catch? It’s the headquarters of the Guangdong Tobacco Company – an arm of China National Tobacco Company, the largest cigarette manufacturer in the world.
• Rich presents Genre Goes Green? posted at Queercents, saying, “Genre (the gay magazine) goes green… with a few insights into the politics of global warming.”
• David Bradley at sciencebase quips in his post green laundry detergents that despite the hype by Walmart and manufacturers of supposedly environmentally friendly laundry products, there is nothing �green� about doing the washing even in a modern and purportedly efficient washing machine. He suggests: re-wear and save the planet
• and Melanie Rimmer at bean sprouts explores in her post Whole Different Ball Game whether tumble dryer balls can save energy. It is still more environmentally friendly to dry clothes on a line than in a tumble dryer, she concludes.
• Leon Gettler presents The greening of Exxon Mobil? posted at Sox First, saying, “After years of condemning climate change campaigners, Exxon Mobil now says it�s going green. But a closer look reveals the company�s line on global warming is still the same. It�s just being pragmatic”
• Harlan Weikle writes at the greener magazine about the African Union Summit held last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which opened with a call urging increased participation by member states in the continent’ s globalization through technology and science.
• Stephen Filler from GreenCounsel writes about Nau — one of the only businesses that actually incorporates triple bottom requirements into its corporate by-laws — and advocates for the creation of a new corporate entity, a “Sustainable Corporation” that would be entitled to tax and other government benefits
• nickel presents 12 Simple Ways to Save Money on Utilities (and the Planet) posted at fivecentnickel.com.
• Sally Kneidel writes that we are Ninety Percent certain while discussing the new report on global warming from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at Veggie Revolution
• The introduction of industrial agriculture and antibiotics in farming greatly increased food production and reduced the number of farm animals lost to diseases. What has been the cost to farm animals and the environment? Andrea at Buy Organic wonders.
• Dawn has some personal steps to installing a low flow showerhead along with the pros and cons, handy for the unsure, at frugal for life
• Jacob Kearns makes a small but pertinent point with his post Eiffel Tower lights off a telling sign of climate change progress at his Real Green Tips blog
• Ken Cook at mulch reports in Michigan’s “Farm Bill Losers” Stepping Up that Michigan’s important fruit and vegetable sector has heard the farm bill wake up call.
• and over at enviroblog a “guest blogger” has a few things to say in defence of the criticism of nutritional science by Michael Pollan (his essay Unhappy Meals for New York Times Magazine)
• to end it all in a happy note, Lakshmi at Alchemy gives out a list of suggestions on how to hold Green weddings in India.

That concludes this edition. The previous Jan 29, 2007 (#62) edition was hosted at Jetson Green and the next one on Feb 12th (#64) would be hosted at Savvy Vegetarian.

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