Saturday Green Links – 4/9
I’m not sure exactly what makes Babeland’s sex toys “eco,” but I’ll bite. I don’t think I want a stone dildo, though…
- Babeland Donates 10% of Eco-Toy Sales to Grist During April – Babeland. Sex and environmentalism: my two favorite things!
- In JP, food scraps and yard waste fuel door-to door composting company – Boston Globe. I think the city should actually be doing this, but until that happens, this is a cool entrepreneurial idea.
- JP Shopping Spree – Jamaica Plain Patch. While I think the attacks on Whole Foods are misguided, I think drawing attention to local businesses is admirable.
- Mother Nature’s Melting Pot – New York Times. Did you know honeybees aren’t native to North America?
- Randolph firm’s vending machines dispense water, without bottles – Boston Globe. Whatever happened to water fountains? I guess this is the next best thing.
- Energy company, city working together to use byproduct of electricity generation to heat and cool buildings – Boston Globe. I always wondered what that steam coming out of manholes was…
- How To Cook Dried Beans – A Staple of Plastic-free Living – My Plastic-Free Life. I’m experimenting with dried beans, but I haven’t gotten used to them yet.
I was too busy to read much this week, so please send me anything cool you come across.
Posted: April 9th, 2011 under links.
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Comments
Comment from Alison
Time April 15, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Yeah the “Puravida” thing… they’re installing one of those in my health club. We’re in Concord, home of the 2ce-passed-but-not-yet-implementable bottled water ban, so the town has asked the health club to stop selling bottled water. For a while they just took the bottled water out of the vending machine which I thought was ridiculous: if you’re buying something from the vending machine who cares if it’s water or flavored water — how is that helpful?! This is at least an actual improvement over that BUT it uses electricity AND costs the user 75 cents to fill a bottle. There IS a water fountain so I don’t understand why I would ever pay for what I can get for free. The mind boggles…
Comment from Alison
Time April 15, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Oh and in terms of dried beans for me the difference was the pressure cooker, which cuts cooking time to about 1/6.
Comment from Sharon
Time April 9, 2011 at 8:46 pm
“I don’t think I want a stone dildo, though…” Darn it, there goes your birthday present!