It is easy to be dazzled by science. Science is, well, cool. It is about discovery, knowledge, exploration, and the undeniable human compulsion to poke at the unknown. And, as with every cool thing in the universe–we should reject the poor and irresponsible attempts, in favor of recognizing and defending the good and the responsible. [...]

I met Captain Charlie back in 2001. He was going around to various meetings, with a couple of pages of bullet points, and talking to anyone who would listen about the large amounts of small plastic bits he was finding on his trans-pacific sailing trips. He started throwing out a net, and counting up the [...]

Aloha kakou! Am happy to announce to GGG readers that I will now be blogging from the middle of the Pacific… Hawaii! My NP partner, Marti, and I are leading KAHEA, a non-profit working on environmental and cultural conservation here in the Islands. It is both incredibly challenging and incredibly exciting work–there are so many [...]

 
Mike, from Jimi, sent GGG a couple of Jimi Wallets to try out and review for our green girls. After a three-week test drive (thanks to my best buddy N, for her help and notes!), the skinny on Jimi:
The Company:
Jimi was founded a few years ago, with a single product: the basic Jimi wallet. They [...]

Over a large piece of particularly decadent dark chocolate cake yesterday, a friend mentioned casually a downgrade in federal standards for chocolate. Or rather, what can be legally be called “chocolate.”
I did a little digging, and she was right: a petition currently before the FDA is asking them to allow choco-products that substitute veggie and [...]

Can one man change the world by not talking?
John Glionna has an interesting profile in today’s LA Times about John Francis, a man who stopped speaking for 17 years.
Moved by an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis in 1973 stopped speaking, stopped using motor vehicles, and began a solitary, speechless trek across the [...]

I knew a woman once, who refused to eat any meat that *looked* like the animal it once was. Whole fish, whole roasted duck… you get the idea.
It was as if by denying that the thing was once alive, she could alleviate her guilt that something, anything, had to die to provide the calories she [...]

I do love libraries.
There is just something about shelves and shelves of books (and more books!), free for the choosing and free of charge that fills my heart with joy. (JOY!)
Libraries are community-building, keepers of culture at the most local level. They promote access for ALL to technology and knowledge. And lots of them are [...]

We talk a lot about “recycling” but what of the other “Rs”? Reduce? Reuse?
Well, score one for reduce, as the city of Santa Monica, CA voted unanimously the other night to ban ALL polystyrene food packaging in the city. While other cities in California have bans focused on styrofoam (expanded polystyrene), Santa Monica is the [...]