The country in Eastern Europe to which I’d move in a heartbeat is Slovenia. I’ve never seen so many shades of green, and for a nation smaller than New Jersey, Slovenia offers much for the visitor: countless hiking opportunities, enchanting lakes such as Bled, a slice of the Adriatic coastline, and once you learn how [...]
GreenGoPost now has a channel on YouTube! We promise there will be better videos down the road, but for now, enjoy this 7 minute video of our backyard garden: and feel free to fast-forward through it! Got a video of what you’re doing in your yard? Please reply back with a video!!!
Yesterday I attended a talk given by USA Ambassador Friis Petersen of Denmark at UCLA’s CIBER (Center for International Business and Research). Ambassador Petersen was in Los Angeles for the day and somehow UCLA was fortunate enough to get a few minutes of his time. With the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change scheduled for next [...]
Mention British Columbia, and you might think of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler. There’s so much more to BC: including more movies that used to be filmed in Hollywood, Okanagan Valley wines, salmon and timber, and yes, Sarah Palin, that long border it shares with Alaska. But BC is also becoming a [...]
Just about every news wire is talking about–SURPRISE–that countless pickup trucks were traded in for . . . pickup trucks. In fact, about 15% of the new cars that owners drove off the lots thanks to this program got less that 20 mpg. You may not think this was an egregious amount, but when you [...]
The mini-midterm elections have come and gone, which means I am not turning on the TV today (except for Dr. Nancy at 9am, I’m a convert!), because all the chatter of what this election means will drive me mad. So if you’re wondering what last night’s returns meant, I will save you time by telling [...]
The trial of the century, if you are to believe the bicyclist blogs, has just ended. Dr. Christopher Thompson was found guilty of seven counts of assault and related charges from last year’s incident, in which he slammed on his breaks, injuring two cyclists who collided with his car on a winding Brentwood street. I [...]
Everyone is on the renewable energy bandwagon. Supposed visionaries like T. Boone Pickens preached about using wind in the nation’s heartland to provide electricity for the United States’ major population centers. Here’s the problem: massively sized projects such as Pickens’ plan means building huge networks of transmission lines that are expensive and would take years [...]