http://greenboyblog.com growing up green Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:17:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The British newspapers are pretty darn direct and in your face. No beating around the global warming bush. Geoffrey Lean, editor of the Independent in London, writing about the new international report about global warming puts it this way: "A world dying but can we unite to save it?" Summarizing ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=50 Apologies for the long absence. And now there is too much to talk about. What's a bad blogger to do? So I guess someone has decided we are Generation Eco. Well maybe I'm too old, and maybe live too far East ... But according to the Sacramento ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=44   Sometimes I try to bury my head and turn my mind off. The Red Sox help except this past week when they melted as much and as fast as the arctic ice. And despite all my efforts, the real world wouldn't go away. It's been more than a ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=39 The sad & bad news first. In the big picture, there's the profoundly disturbing report on today's BBC site entitled "Gorillas head race to extinction." I took a journalism course and I think that's a bit misleading. It's not like the gorillas are racing to extinction. ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=37 All kinds of bits and pieces of news are floating around my brain. I've been zipping around the net picking up green thoughts. Like billions go up in smoke every year - 40 billion dollars worth - as gas is burned off by oil producers in oil fields. Nigerian kids watch ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=35 No sooner did I finish writing "It's Not Easy Being Green," when I started seeing articles about how you have to be green. And the more greenbacks you have, the greener you need to look. First, Lewis Smith, Environmental Reporter for the UK Times offers the British take: Flaunting your green ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=29 I fell down a green rabbit hole You know that rabbit hole that Alice fell into. Well it's one of those days. Some of this stuff is hard to take. It's like the Mad Hatter is loose. Try this on for size. This comes from the Detroit News: "U.S. ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=26 Well I may have been reading too much these last few weeks. I have been flipping back and forth between good green news and bad. Very confusing. Paris bikes - Charles Bremner Here's an instance of good green news. In Paris, people are riding bikes. The city had ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=18 What's a greenboyblogger to say about the greenbacks & greenbucks that are flying all over the place? How much is a green blog worth? Apparently a heck of a lot. Duncan Riley reports for TechCrunch.com: Discovery Communications has announced the acquisition of TreeHugger.com for what is believed to be $10 million. TreeHugger.com started as an ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=17   Research. That's what I was taught in school. So this morning, when I got my chance to look at the newspaper - the Red Sox game ended late and the local paper publishes early - so they didn't have an article and I zipped through the other sections. Right there in ... http://greenboyblog.com/?p=15