The world beyond nuclear energy by Jerry Hart

I barely have my eyes open this morning and catch in my backyard and my ears hear "Energy Breakthrough".

I had that same feeling I mentioned yesterday when I was surfing on the web and ran into a video of Bill Clinton and a former Presidents mission to save the planet. The picture here kind of gives you the feeling I used to get when I would hear stories about energy.

Yawn, yawn, and of course, in my new found awareness of respecting green, I was staggered by the destructive future the world faces and became quickly humbled by Clinton's mission to morph our globe into a green non toxic world.

Upon impact of TV anchors shouting "Energy Breakthrough" from my TV, again, I was thinking, "Oh C'mon people, are we having a slow news day here?

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Skepticism and resistance to living green

This blog is about “Living to think green, a skeptic’s journey”.
Definition of “Skepticism”(a) an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object;
I’ve been very curious about how to lower my skepticism and resistance to living green. Living green means taking the time to appreciate our planet and understand how we can make our personal green contribution to this beautiful place called earth. I’m almost blown away as I just typed those emphatic feelings that are now my reality. I believe my intentions to be available for any sign I can find that will direct me to do the right green things are showing up in spades.
I’ve set intentions to:
1. Attract others who have a sense of urgency to live green and sincerely care about taking action.2. Monitor my Greendar,...which means... Read More of Skepticism and resistance to living green

Taking your monitor to the morgue

Okay, so you’ve just decided to get rid of an old piece of electronics, but you don’t know where to dispose of it. Nothing’s listed in your local Yellow Pages, you can’t call the morgue, and the town dump won’t take it. Where do you turn? How about your iPhone?
First, allow me if you will. I’m so happy that Hart of Green is slapping the green out of me! What does that mean? Pretty simple. I wasn’t blogging anything green just a few weeks ago and have opened this blog and shared as many of my real time experiences in hopes it helps you or perhaps entertains you. If I can entertain, inform, and inspire you to take action and enjoy this new found respect for how wonderful it is to be aware of green, then I’m good.

Here’s the deal.

Have you been thru ........
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Does green mean acting like a piece of fruit while you sleep?

I've had so much fun this week.

1. I've pledged to be a non smoker starting June 1, 2009. Giving back to me and the planet.
2. I discovered I'm a lousy Green date [at least at the moment] and might not be sexy enough for the eco-walk, according to Planet Green {link to take quiz yourself}.
3. I'm still chuckling about the bottled water industry and their antics to remind me on their labels that their water come s from a “Public Water Source”. A politically correct way of saying “tap water”.
4. National Bike Day became a day I didn't even know existed.
5. I must have looked at this photo 100 times this week. It embodies my awe for our space program, our planet and my perception of how much more I can do to be green on earth.

Then the work week ended and I thought "What would a new green kind of guy do on...
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Does green mean acting like a piece of fruit while you sleep?

It’s not often I see a press release for a new site and talk about them on Hart of Green. Today we welcome to the world wide web [GGT] “Going Green Today”.

My FAQ’s are always a place for me to work out whether I like a site or not so, almost immediately when I arrived at this site I clicked FAQ. I’m like a teenager on Black Friday at a Wal-Mart front door ready to bolt in and find my Nintendo. In this case, find my FAQ’s. I’ll share some really interesting things I found, but first

The short of who they are, “Going Green Today, and what they do:

They want to make a collective impact on the environment by making individual lifestyle changes. Through the utilization of their coaching tools over a self-chosen time period, individuals will be guided to make green lifestyle decisions, save money and address global climate change. The GGT program uses an in-depth lifestyle survey to develop a clear picture of your life and habits. They then calculate your environmental impact to reduce your carbon footprint by creating a customized action plan. Your customized action plan can be implemented over 30, 60 or 90 days to reduce your personal impact by 30% and save you $2000 per year.

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Is NASA as green as me?

Our wonderful astronauts come home tonight after fixing Hubble for the last time. They plan to launch a new telescope soon and let Hubble disappear into the ether’s. That doesn’t sound very green with shrapnel from Hubble decaying it’s metal for millions of years to come. That’s not nearly as fun to talk about as Hubble’s ability to take photos that take your breath away. Does this photo do it for ya? Sure does for me. Maybe you look up on Google some of the solar systems it’s found recently. It’s absolutely profound and even more unreal when you let your mind wander and wonder what’s out there.

This photo alone got me thinking of other life and are they green on those planets we don’t know about.

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Are we being duped by polished photos of salacious waterfalls and streams of the Rockies? by Jerry Hart

We’ve all heard the ol’ Bring your own Beer right? Now, we have bring your own water bottle to the party. This is one of San Francisco’s biggest party on the streets called the Bay to Breaker footrace. Have you noticed how little we think about what’s in the bottle, rather we spend lots of time thinking about recycling the bottle, or in this case reuse?

The race was energizing to hear about all weekend, and even more interesting was looking at all the race photos with bottles in hand on the news today. I was happy to see the new ‘bring your own water bottle’ program and was chuckling at how little we think about the expensive tap water inside of the bottle.
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Small is not always “Green”

What a wonderful Mother’s Day, even though it wasn’t all that green.
I launched this blog a week ago and it’s been an exercise of shifting my mindset.

I want us to connect and appreciate how funny life can be when you simply reflect the reality of your green day, good, bad, indifferent.

Yesterday was an eye opener with my brother, a well-educated walking Wikipedia of life, who was helping me understand what car to buy and why?

We were on our way to see Star Trek, and I spotted a Smart Car and said “Look, a shopping cart with an airbag”. He said, “Oh, that thing, the two-seater golf cart?

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1) It runs on gas, no electric and only gets 27 miles per gallon on a good day.
2) Expensive - around $23,000.
3) At 100,000 miles you have to replace the battery. $6,000 for new batteries and the $150 charge from the dealer to dump it. How long do batteries sit in the ground and how harmful is that to the planet? I don’t know yet.
4) Smart Cars are made in Germany and get hauled on a big carbon of the sea footprint to hit our shores for sale.