Green Leaf Report

The other day, a local radio station DJ went on a diatribe about wasteful plastic water bottles.  He mentioned that the equivalent of five or six bottles of water were used to cool the plastic while manufacturing a single plastic water bottle.  This doesn’t even include the amount of water lost in some filtering processes to create the contents of one […]

Checking out of the grocery store the other day, I was lured in by Vanity Fair’s 2nd annual green issue. I’ve held to my rule for about the last year of not buying magazines; I love them, but I read them in a couple of hours and then feel guilty about the wasted paper. I […]

This week I planted two native trees on the west side of my house: a Crabapple and Bur Oak. I’m inspired by the EPA: Carbon Dioxide. When trees and vegetation reduce energy use, they also reduce CO2 emissions from power plants. In addition, vegetation removes atmospheric CO2 by sequestration. Trees sequester – or store – […]

This article written by Thomas Friedman may be the best article I’ve ever read. I was going to call it a green article, but that is too limiting- it’s just, simply, an excellent article. It touches history, foreign affairs, political stability, Iraq, economics and so much more. It actually is a bit more like a […]

For so long, people have thought of water as free, this plentiful thing that falls from the sky. Things start getting a little nastier when water restrictions kick in and the North Texas homeowners want to protect their expensive petunias and banana trees.  Kudos to Brandon Formby of the Dallas Morning News for calling attention to […]

The recent Supreme Court ruling that I blogged about last week for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant was an exciting legal change, dealing with a whole new area of pollution.  Another Supreme Court ruling made recently just made me angry when I realized the underlying issue: In Environmental Defense vs. Duke Energy […]

I absolutely love this article about making bioplastic packaging that can then be used as fuel.  What an outstanding idea- design for the re-use!  If this happens, maybe San Fran would start allowing plastic grocery bags again: Take a wasteful, landfill -clogging item and prepare for its useful second life.  It seems weird to think of […]

I’m in awe of the Supreme Court decision today: Not only does the EPA have the ability to act on automobile emissions, but it also has the requirement. The EPA has a new boss- they’ve answered to the bush regime, now they can answer to the trees again. I’ve wondered before how any environmental agency […]