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  • All 'Tobacco" is not the same...

    As a grower of Cigar Broadleaf in good ol' 'Kantuck', let me clarify a few things for you. a. Not all tobacco emits the 600+ chemicals found in cigarette tobacco and it's wrapper. b. Cigar tobacco is pretty much a completely organic crop when done correctly. c. The anti-smoking league has made the subtle, but irresponsible leap from ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by KentuckyThunder on March 18, 2009

  • Bagasse/Bamboo Products

    I am the President of P&C Compostech Inc (www.compostech.com). My company is the largest importer and distributor in Canada of compostable cups made from recycled bamboo and bagasse. Bagasse is sugarcane pulp left over from the sugar making process. Our manufacturer, (currently in China, with plans to relocate the foctories to Canada once the ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by ClarkeBitter on September 18, 2008

  • one does not equal one

    I think you article was great, but there was one point you left out. It may take more energy to make a ceramic or stainless steel cup than a styrofoam cup, but once the ceramic cup is made you will use it for years. If you drink 2 cups of coffee a day using a styrofoam cup that is 730 styrofoam cups in just one year. I don't think styrofoam is ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by jenmcmn on September 18, 2008

  • Fat enough

    I couldn't even finish this article. I am sure that some people can't help being fat. All your science aside I have known many people that went from an active lifestyle to an inactive one and gained a lot of weight. Period. If you don't care enough about your own body to eat right, exercise, and generally take care of the one and only thing in ...
    Posted to Green Room by digitalmonkeys on July 11, 2008

  • When moms have the freedom

    I am so happy my husband supports my desition of staying with my child at home. I just couldn't leave him in childcare. I tried 3 different center after I actually visited like 15. It was just so devastating. I came home to cry all evening for leaving my child with who know who... We couldn't afford for me not to make money, we need my income. But ...
    Posted to Number 1 by ptiffany on May 10, 2008

  • what mommies do

    Lots of moms who have decided to stay home because they just can't leave their babies in daycare, either because they find the separation too hard or because after having to pay childcare fees and gas they don't really bring much money home, they are doing GPT sites from home. I am one of them. No, I didn't believe in those sites at first. My ...
    Posted to Moneybox by ptiffany on May 10, 2008

  • Stop the CFL Madness!

    Boy, the hype is thick as a brick in here. I don't know who's really behind the insane rush to CFLs, but, as usual, I'm following the money. Thirty cents for an incandecent that breaks down in a landfill, vs. $5 for a CFL that needs a haz-mat crew to properly dispose of it. Swap out a few billion of them and do the math. The best rebuttal to the ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by elrod on February 18, 2008

  • Hazardous Waste in Subduction Zones

    OK...If Volcanoes are not a good choice for disposing of nuclear waste, HOW ABOUT.... Disposing of hazardous waste in a geological subduction zone? In this area waste materials would sink into the earth below the volcano to be taken down in vacuum cleaner style to the crust of the earth and not to be seen but in diluted form several hundred ...
    Posted to Explainer by mitteemo on January 31, 2008

  • Re: way better than landfills and coal.

    Virtually all materials: nuclear, bio-waste, coal, petroleum, municiple waste, etc can be recycled by using ''plasma gasification''. Convert all of these to syngas, produce electricity with little to no emisions! Want to know more, read my book ''Plasma at Work'' available on amazon.com.
    Posted to The Green Lantern by Plasma-Man on January 9, 2008