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0hugs HUG!Hello y’all ~ I am back from my lovely winter vacation in the wild mountains of British Columbia and ready for a new year of blogging adventures! As I caught up on my blog reading from the past few weeks, I was excited to discover that the venerable YogaDawg named it’s all yoga, baby...

0hugs HUG!WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that a second round of funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects that will be made available through the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). At an event today ...

0hugs HUG!Stillness is not an acquired practice. Stillness just is.  It comes naturally when you have order. You may ask, what is this? Complete order is complete quietness of the mind.  This is the perspective of pure consciousness.Now, man is conditioned to think he must seek things.  His qu...

0hugs HUG! This forsaken Christmas tree ball was sitting in a pile of leaves on the side of my street. After photographing it, I disposed of it properly. When the party is over, please clean up the mess. And Happy New Year! I promise to post regularly again in the new year. It’s a resolution.

0hugs HUG!It is a new year and in our society, a lot is happening this time of year. People are resolving to do things, checks are written with the wrong year, people go back to work to the normal grind, and in many parts of the country we’re entering some of the coldest months of the year. Ne...

0hugs HUG! Or, Dirty Green? A note for the coming year: America’s 2010 Economic Forecast.

0hugs HUG! All about bees (Courtesy of PBS) Follow Joe’s toons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons

0hugs HUG!Everything that you sense exists to carry you forward.  The reality you perceive suggests that you are always going somewhere.  The mind assumes this implies movement of the physical body. This is actually a metaphor for the ascension of consciousness.  The dense energy or 3-dimensio...

0hugs HUG!Or, Any Publicity Is Good Publicity?A while back RecycleBill wrote about Custom & High Performance Motorized Bicycle, Scooter & Moped Parts but what if you don't have a motorized bicycle to customize?For starters: where do you plan to ride? In most states you cannot ride a mo...

0hugs HUG!Most people have no idea what is technically-feasible and to what degree they permit themselves to be controlled by media and existing systems. What if the idea of a free market actually prevents equality, perpetuates conflict, competition and the 'us and them' mentality? What if you...

0hugs HUG!These Fair Trade Napkins are another great product from Market Place Handwork of India. Not only are they a great way to spice up your table but, they supports disadvantaged women in India. Market Place Handwork of India is more than just a company – they are a non-profit that suppor...

0hugs HUG! In my perfect world, our world's energy is powered by renewable sources, business sustainability is the norm, and sustainable lifestyles abound.  While we're not quite there yet, as a sustainability consultant, I ask, "What will get us there?"   

0hugs HUG!Or, Going Where No Man Has Dared To Go?RecycleBill took a call today from a nice lady in Winston-Salem, North Carolina who has collected what is to her a lot of plastic containers that Winston-Salem's municipal recycling program doesn't handle. She was hoping I might be able to take...

0hugs HUG!As we close out 2009, I’ve been looking back at the year’s posts and the traffic and link love I’ve received from other blogs, with an eye toward pointing you to the most read articles here. I was pleasantly surprised to notice that according to my WordPress statistics plugin, Natura...

0hugs HUG!When you sense injustice in the external world, this tells you there is something within your heart that requests to be understood and purified. In truth, injustice, inequality or victims are misunderstandings that invite awakening.Every human being is beginning to realize the nature...

0hugs HUG!Or, Metaling Where They Don’t Belong?While foraging the world wide web looking for local recyclers to add to our local recycler search engine I came across an article about a new Oregon law meant to prevent scrap metals theft. North Carolina already has such a law but chooses not to ...

0hugs HUG!A great new product is rockin the Daily Guff today, the Hipster Tee from the eco stylish company Holstee. The company is the product of two brothers, Dave and Mike at Incubaker (great name!), a NYC based innovation lab. What’s more, proceeds from the company are used to empower entre...

0hugs HUG!Or, Some People Get A Charge?That's right, RecycleBill is at it again. It's not that I don't like progress, it's just that my idea of progress is a bit more progressive than the marketers of progress seem to want to see happen.Take our consumer based economy for example: Everyone hat...

0hugs HUG!Today small businesses and entrepreneurships represent over half of all United States employment.  This number continues to grow domestically and around the globe as more individuals seek self-employment in these economic times.  With more individuals looking to become self-starters,...

0hugs HUG!Many people speak of coming events and do not realize this future focus distracts them from what is.  Now is the moment.  You may ask for what? Now is when you can choose to feel increased creative inspiration and expansion.At present, you are in the process of reconnecting with the ...

0hugs HUG!The nice people at Vers create these attractive, functional Bamboo iPhone and iPod Cases while considering the environmental impact of said items. We appreciate the careful consideration of the effect of mass production on our environment and the great steps that Vers has taken to ma...

0hugs HUG!WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is launching Open Energy Information (www.openEI.org) - a new open-source web platform that will make DOE resources and open energy data widely available to the public. The data and tools housed on the free,...

0hugs HUG!A new wind farm set up in Aruba shows how good choices lead to an excellent power source. While in most places the wind is gusty and unpredictable, certain places have very predictable winds. In this case the wind farm was set up on the eastern end of Aruba which gets consistent tr...

0hugs HUG!With oil, natural gas, and energy receiving most of the popular press, the often forgotten resource that presents the greatest challenge to local communities is the availability of fresh water.  Unlike energy constraints, water cannot be economically brought in from neighboring areas...

1hugs HUG!This year I turned 40, and along with the realization that I’m now middle-aged (ack!) came some meditations on the life lessons I’ve learned so far (or not learned, as the case may be). As part of that process of introspection, I found myself wondering what I wish I had heard (and ta...

0hugs HUG! Or, Not Another Top 10 List? I've read that Internet users love top ten lists so I thought I'd throw together a list of the Top 10 Ways To Go Green Without Going Green.