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Carnival of the Green #25

Posted on May 1, 2006 | Leave a comment

This week, Spiral Visions welcomes readers to the 25th, May Day, Carnival of the Green!

  • Composting
  • SE England’s drought and its hosepipe bans
  • 10 things people might do to reduce climate change
  • making blankets for the homeless out of grocery bags
  • how to stop junk mail
  • cleaners made with naturally scented essential oils
  • Organic milks
  • Farming
  • Utah’s Blogswarm (mine and Jen’s Green Journal’s submissions)
  • Why do we need roads?
  • pollution
  • Deep Ecology Platform
  • aspirations towards greener living
  • protective properties of vegetables

    Happy May Day Reading!

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    Carnival of the Green #24

    Posted on April 24, 2006 | Leave a comment

    Step right up to this week’s Carnival of the Green, hosted by The Evangelical Ecologist, now in its 24th week!

    A variety of topics are featured this week from raising livestock to nuclear and being green to feeding your pets organic food to immigration and to yoga.

    Happy carnival-going!

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    Carnival of the Green #23

    Posted on April 18, 2006 | Leave a comment

    This week’s Carnival of the Green event is being hosted by Organic Authority.

    Topics this week include:

  • biodiversity
  • genetically-modified, global warming-resistant rice
  • eco-friendly floor cleaners
  • how the renewable energy industry is being driven by families powering down
  • list of the major large national and international fair trade organizations that focus on grassroots activism for fair trade issues
  • renaming the global warming issue
  • pros and cons of pre-rinsing dishes before putting in the dishwasher
  • “Divine Strake” test issue
  • having a green laundry room
  • food issues in a variety of arenas
  • radiation as a power source for everyday electronics
  • rescue of a baby skunk
  • pictorial review of a koala
  • political ecology of third world countries
  • a competition that will provide investors in emerging market equities with better research on companies’ social and environmental performance.

    Happy reading!

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    Carnival of the Green #22

    Posted on April 10, 2006 | Leave a comment

    This week’s Carnival of the Green is being hosted by Exuberant Pantaphobia.

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    Carnival of the Green #21

    Posted on April 3, 2006 | Leave a comment

    This week’s COTG can be attended at Greenthinkers .

    Topics include:

  • A list of fair-trade coffee cafes around the country (non listed in Utah, though!)
  • Frapper, a map that shows where bloggers are
  • a program where tree lovers write a message and for every 100th message a tree is planted in Austrailia
  • post on McDonald’s publicizing that they sell organic food because they sell salad
  • agriculture post peak petroleum
  • a new cookbook for kids promoting promotes local, sustainably-grown foods
  • bags made from recycled goods
  • continued interview with Craig Sams, producer of Green & Black’s organic chocolate
  • pros and cons of the uses of bamboo
  • door to door sales, applied to sustainable economic growth in rural India
  • a company in India which is promoting decentralized power generation using biomass gasification in rural areas
  • software sustainability
  • wildlife being endangered (and even killed) because they get in the way of golfers on the golf course
  • synopsis of South Park’s take on environmental smugness

    Happy Reading!

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    Carnival of the Green #20

    Posted on March 28, 2006 | Leave a comment

    The 20th edition of Carnival of the Green has hit the blog stands.

    Posts this week include these topics:

  • the benefits of bicycling
  • the problem of cats as predators
  • the Evangelical Ecologist
  • an interview with Tony Brown of the Ecosa Institute, the only design program in the US devoted entirely to sustainability
  • population growth
  • The Dictionary of Sustainable Management
  • how to earn money with your toxic trash
  • the recent acquisition of the Body Shop
  • little green things you can do to contribute to saving the planet
  • sustainable living in a midwestern town
  • an interview with a bicyclist as she travels around Miami on a “free transit day”
  • global warming and the pending world water crisis
  • update on the Forest Image Registry.org ,which launched this week. The F.I.R. Project uses interactive Google satellite imaging and user commentary to let you experience America’s great National Forest lands
  • follow-up to a previous post about Ecoist handbags, made from recycled candy wrappers
  • the Veggie Revolution
  • why regular paints are bad for us and the environment
  • Wind Energy in the movies
  • earth friendly landscaping

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    Carnival of the Green #19

    Posted on March 20, 2006 | Leave a comment

    Happy Vernal Equinox!

    This week’s Carnival of the Green springs into action on baloghblog, a site dedicated to sustainable ideas, and progressive news items.

    This week’s COTG items include posts on

  • gardening,permaculture, and composting
  • solar pyramids to create energy and hot water in India
  • a call to action for advocating a better life on the planet
  • fashing the recycled way
  • finding chemical-free baby products
  • how to get your children into activism
  • an analysis of a week’s worth of refuse in a poster’s home
  • preparing for “disaster”
  • the sell out of the Body Shop to Loreal (that was a bummer for me this week…)
  • “green” beer (environmentally speaking)
  • gentrification and government involvement
  • rainforests in U.S. Territories
  • A comparison between the excess of the oscars and ways that the money could be spent to better the world
  • promoting the use of bicycles in Denmark for tourists and residents
  • Shiitake Mushroom workshop information (yummy – one of my favs!)
  • global warming

    Happy springtime reading!

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    Carnival of the Green #18

    Posted on March 14, 2006 | Leave a comment

    This week’s COTG is hosted by Dirty Greek.
    Post categories this week include:

  • Social Issues
  • Food and Nature
  • Green Home and Garden
  • Energy
  • Forest Image Registry Project
  • Miscellanous topics

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    Carnival of the Green #17

    Posted on March 8, 2006 | Leave a comment

    This week’s COTG is being hosted by Enviropundit: Green Building Blog. The topics this week include:

  • Environmental legislative news
  • Waste
  • Architecture and Engineering
  • Consumer Issues

    Happy Reading!

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    Carnival of the Green #16

    Posted on February 27, 2006 | Leave a comment

    This week’s Carnival of the Green is hosted by The Naked Vegetarian, who has dedicated it to
    the Spirit of New Orleans, home of the original “Carnival,” Mardi Gras. Tomorrow is “Fat Tuesday,” and so from all of us in the Carnival of the Green we wish the people of the Gulf Coast and disaster victims everywhere a greener, brighter new year.

    This week’s Big Top-ics include:

  • organic farming
  • sustainable logging practices and Shiitake Log Inoculation
  • GE food debate
  • a report putting forward a package of measures that if implemented will aim to encourage householders to adopt green living practices by offering them financial incentives, information and advice. (UK)
  • climate change issues
  • activism on sustainability – personal accounts
  • Canadian Olympic-wear: Made in China
  • media analysis
  • Bush’s proposal to sell national forests to pay for schools
  • how to stop junk mail
  • birthday refelctions from City Hippy (Happy First Birthday!)
  • “designer dogs”
  • UPS adding hybrid vehicles to their fleet (way to go UPS!)
  • getting a taxi – the trike kind, that is
  • review of a new book by Tri Robinson – “Saving God’s Green Earth”

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