chaos determent – A couple of positive steps towards worry free energy

We may get out of this yet…
trend 1 – an even more exciting race to maximize energy capture and storage from waves, tides, artificial photosynthesis.
trend 2 – By 2035, the U.S. could conceivably cut its use of energy in half.

My dish soap weighs in on oil conservation

Straight from the back of my Seventh Generation dish soap to my blog,
If every household in the U.S. replaced just one bottle of 25 oz. petroleum-based dish washing liquid with a plant derived product, like Seventh Generation’s, we could save 86,000 barrels of oil.  That’s enough to heat 4,900 homes for a year.  
 
Conservation, what [...]

Kankakee Sands Project – preserving the last of Indiana’s prairie ecosystem

Every now and then, I’m able to take a step a back and realize that it’s not all environmental doom and gloom in the state.  Reading up on the Kankakee Sands Project is just such a welcome example.  An initiative of the Nature Conservancy of Indiana, the land is a 7200 acre parcel amidst a larger 22,000 acre chain [...]

The Indianapolis Zoo: Empowering Hoosiers for Environmental Change

“We are the cause.” 
I smiled when I read this environmentally progressive declaration from a Hoosier organization, specifically the Indianapolis Zoo’s My Carbon Pledge campaign.  The pledge is simple.  Replace old incandescent bulbs with CFLs (now you see why Lowe’s is involved, eh?) to reduce overall CO2 emissions.  It’s nothing new, really, for those who are even moderately interested [...]

Environmental conscioussness and American laziness

I suppose it’s no surprise that I would be able to find Western irresponsibility propped by Christianity in my own back yard.  Veritas Rex (V/R), a conservative Christian Hoosier blog has some rather arrogant and lazy opinions on Christianity’s relationship with the earth and by extension, everyone else on it.
Where to start? How about, in regards [...]